Carrowreagh

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowreagh, from 307 m² to 290,821 m² (29.08 ha, 71.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowreagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  to retain revision of site boundaries from that granted under PD/05/02 together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20387

• 14 Jul 2020N/a

  for revision of site boundaries from that granted under PD/05/02 together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20273

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowreagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO016-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 34m) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.2-0.4) NE-E and S-WSW. There is no visible entrance. A hedge is planted on the perimeter SW-NW and the interior is overlain by a NW-SE relict field bank . The interior is cut by a NE-SW drain towards the perimeter at NW, while a pond lies immediately SE of the monument. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO016-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the S-facing slope of a NE-SW ridge. Oval scrub-covered area which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest (dims. 31m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1-3m). There is no visible bank, fosse or entrance, and the perimeter has been quarried at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.8m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.4-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.95m) SSW-W, WNW-NNW and at E, and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.8m), with an outer fosse (at N: Wth of base 2m; D 0.2-095m) WSW-N-ESE, represented by a band of rushes (Wth 2m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll in a gently undulating landscape. Described in 1981 as a circular area (int. diam. c. 24m N-S) defined by a low, overgrown and gapped earthen bank, with a shallow outer fosse SE-W-N (SMR file). It is now visible as a grass-covered platform (diam. 23m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.4-1m). It remains unplanted in a recently planted forest (Bing c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low-lying, level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.5m E-W; 43.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 3.7m at N to 5.5m at W; int. H 0.4-0.95m; ext. H 1.2-1.7m) SE-W-N which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 2.8m at N to 3.75m at S; D 0.15m at S to 0.6m at N) SE-W-N. The stone-lined entrance (Wth 3.8m) is at SE, and a stream or drain circumscribes the perimeter NE-SE. Rath (RO017-006----) is c. 160m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a low NE-SW ridge towards the NE end. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (dims 26.5m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a low, gapped earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5-0.65m; ext. H 1.1-1.2m) S-W-NE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (at W: Wth of top 2.5m; D 0.4m) SW-NNE. Externally, a NNW-SSE field bank at E and an ENE-WSW field bank at S have removed the fosse NE-W-SW. Rath (RO017-006----) is c. 160m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a terrace of an E-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 20m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 24m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) SSW-WNW, and a scarp (H 0.9-1.1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO017-008----) is c. 140m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rocky terrace of an E-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 20m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 19.5m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of base 2-2.5m; int. D 0.4-0.7m; ext. D 0.1-0.3m) SE-W-N, and a berm (Wth 2.5m) elsewhere. There is a record of a slight outer bank S-N in 1981 (SMR file), which is no longer evident. Rath (RO017-007----) is c. 140m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO017-074 Moated site
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a steep SSE-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered but poached area (dims 39m ENE-WSW; 33m NNW-SSE) defined by earthen banks (Wth 5.3-6m; int. H. 0.55m at W to 1.6m at N; ext. H 1.1m) with some bushes at WSW and NNW, reduced to a scarp at ENE (H 0.8m) and SSE (H 1.45m), but with no visible surface evidence of an enclosing element at the NE angle. There is an outer flat-bottomed moat (Wth of top 6.7m; Wth of base 4.5m; D 1.1m) at the E end of the NW side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowreagh.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Carrowreagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowreagh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Carrowreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Carrowreagh

Area

2,563,220 m² (256.32 ha, 633.39 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Aughrim West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

180 people lived in 73 households in the Aughrim West electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardleckna, Ballysundrivan, Bealragh, Corbally Middle, Corbally West, Culleenrevagh, Lissadorn, Ryefield or Runnateggal

Placenames

Carrowreagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.