Carrowmore

188 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 190 m² to 92,086 m² (9.21 ha, 22.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Carrowmore 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.

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission and Permission for (i) Retention of the re-roofing and alterations to the front façade of the existing dwelling house, (ii) Permission for a new Wastewater Treatment System to replace the existing septic tank and (iii) Permission for extensions and alterations to the existing rear shed to provide a ‘Granny Flat’ to the rear of the site of the existing dwelling house with connection to the new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660045

• 23 Jan 2026N/a

  Permission for (i) Retention of the re-roofing and alterations to the front façade of the existing dwelling house, (ii) Permission for a new Wastewater Treatment System to replace the existing septic tank and (iii)Permission for extensions and alterations to the existing rear shed to provide a ‘Granny Flat’ to the rear of the site of the existing dwelling house with connection to the new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660030

• 6 May 2025N/a

  Planning permission for the construction of a single storey detached modular type 'Granny Flat' to the rear of the site of an existing dwelling house with connection to existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560205

• 20 Oct 2020Conditional

  for retention of site layout, domestic garage and dwelling house to include unauthorised elements which differ to that granted planning permission under PD/01/863 at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20433

• 1 Oct 2020N/a

  for retention of site layout, domestic garage and dwelling house to include unauthorised elements which differ to that granted planning permission under PD/01/863 at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20397

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• RO040-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the W edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 45.7m NW-SE; 43m NE-SW) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6-10.7m; Wth of base 2.4-3.4m; int. D 1.6-1.8m; ext. D 0.4-1.1m) E-S-WNW and at N with a causeway (Wth 2.8m) at SW. The monument is slightly truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NE and does not survive beyond it. See the attached aerial image taken from the W 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 Carrowmore.

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 Carrowmore, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1427 (ZIP).

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

Name

Carrowmore

Area

2,364,276 m² (236.43 ha, 584.23 acres)

Civil parish

Roscommon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,513 people lived in 1,881 households in the Roscommon Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowroe, Cloonconra, Clooncraff, Creevyquin, Killeenboy, Lisbride, Newtown

Placenames

Carrowmore 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.