Carrowkeel

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 365 m² to 145,233 m² (14.52 ha, 35.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Carrowkeel 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowkeel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carrowkeel.

Recorded monuments

• RO047-011001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 40m WNW-ESE; 33.6m NNE-SSW) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6-4m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.3-0.9m) frequently reduced to a scarp (H 0.45m at WNW). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. A D-shaped enclosure or annexe (RO047-011002-) attached to the SE is visible as a low grass-covered platform (dims 25m E-W; at least 19m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2m) NE-SW. The rath and annexe are bisected by a WNW-ESE field wall, but the annexe does not survive N of this feature. Rath (RO047-012001-) is c. 200m to the N and rath (RO047-040001-) is c. 140m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-011002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope. This is a D-shaped enclosure or annexe attached to the SE of rath (RO047-011001-) and is visible as a low grass-covered platform (dims 25m E-W; at least 19m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.2m) NE-SW. The rath and annexe are bisected by a WNW-ESE field wall, but the annexe is not visible N of this feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-012001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Circular, slightly domed grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 39.6m WNW-ESE; 38.8m NNE-SSW) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.5m at ESE to 9.5m at WNW; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.45-1.55m) and a silted flat-bottomed outer fosse (at ESE: Wth of top 5.6m; Wth of base 2.8-3m; D 0.45m). The entrance (Wth 3.7m) and causeway (Wth 2.7m) are at SSE. A WNW-ESE field wall clips the outer edge of the fosse at SSW, and a field bank and hedge circumscribe the perimeter SW-NNE. Rath (RO047-013----) is c. 100m to the NNE and rath (RO047-011001-) is c. 200m to the S. See the attached view taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-012002 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  On a S-facing slope and at the centre of rath (RO047-012001-). Gannon (1972) describes a semi-rectangular moss-covered heap of stones as a possible structure. It is not present now, and is unlikely to be an antiquity. Also, given the undisturbed appearance of the monument it is unlikely to have been removed. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-012003 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  On a S-facing slope and inside the perimeter of rath (RO047-012001-) at NW. A semi-circular cairn is mentioned by Gannon (1972), but no longer survives. It is unlikely to be an antiquity. Also, given the undisturbed appearance of the site it is unlikely to have been removed and it may survive in the growth. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 30m NNW-SSE; 29m ENE-WSW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank best preserved, although probalby renewed, NE-SSE (at ENE: Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) and largely reduced to a scarp (at WSW: H 1.3m) elsewhere. There are slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.3m) NNE-ENE and an entrance (Wth 2m) at NE. Rath (RO047-014001-) is c. 150m to the E and rath (RO047-012001-) is c. 100m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO047-079 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 21.8m NNW-SSE; 20.9m ENE-WSW) defined by a partly grass-covered wall footing with facing-stones (Wth of wall: 1.25-1.55m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m) and some bushes There is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowkeel, about 1 in 5 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 Carrowkeel.

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 Carrowkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Carrowkeel

Area

1,075,169 m² (107.52 ha, 265.68 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Turrock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

322 people lived in 113 households in the Turrock electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Coolatober, Cronin, Glenrevagh, Lissaphuca, Lisseenamanragh, Shanballylosky

Placenames

Carrowkeel 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.