Carrowkeeny

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeeny, from 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 329,669 m² (32.97 ha, 81.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Carrowkeeny 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.

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  Retention permission and permission to apply for: (A) Retention Permission to retain an existing access track and hard standing area (B) Planning permission to erect a 24-metre-high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing, and to close the existing vehicular site entrance and to replace it with a proposed new vehicular site entrance at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460293

• 24 Jun 2024N/a

  Retention permission & permission to apply for: (A) Retention permission to retain an existing access track and hard standing area (B) Planning permission to erect a 24-metre-high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing, and to close the existing vehicular site entrance and to replace it with a proposed new vehicular site entrance at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460285

• 12 Feb 2024N/a

  Permission to erect a 24-metre-high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing, and to upgrade and extend the existing access track including the relocation of the existing entrance at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460061

• 9 Feb 2024N/a

  Permission to erect a 24-metre-high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing, and to upgrade and extend the existing access track including the relocation of the existing entrance at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460059

• 6 Jun 2023N/a

  Permission to erect a 24 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing, a proposed access track and a turning area at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23237

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a dwelling house and garage with treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17521

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 Carrowkeeny.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a col with Ardmullan Hill c. 1.2km to the N and Carrowkeeny Hill c. 500m to the S. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 42.7m NNE-SSW; c. 35m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earth and stone bank (Wth of base 4-4.5m; Wth of top 1.2-1.4m; int. H 0.8-0.9m; ext. H 1-1.2m) with some bushes, and an outer fosse (at NNE: Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 1.5m; max. D 0.5m) which survive S-W-NE. There are traces of an outer bank (at NNE: Wth 2.4m; ext. H 0.2m) NNW-NE, which might not be original, and the inner bank may have been overlain by a stone wall at N. The original entrance is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-027001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a local prominance in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 42.3m NW-SE; 38.7m NE-SW) defined by a stone spread (Wth c. 7m; H 0.5-0.9m) obscured by field stones and with some bushes. There is a record of a stone-lined entrance (Wth 2m) at N (Gannon 1972) but it cannot be detected now. A N-S fieldwall overlies the W part of the monument, and souterrain (RO048-027002-) is inside the perimeter at SW. The interior was used as a Childrens' Burial Ground (RO048-027003-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-027002 Souterrain
  Description

  On a local prominance in an undulating landscape. Some lintels of a souterrain running N-S are visible n the SW quadrant of cashel (RO048-027001-), but it is inaccessible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-027003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a local prominance in an undulating landscape. There are about six grass-covered cairns (diam. c. 2m) in the interior of cashel (RO048-027001-), indicating it was used as a Childrens' Burial Ground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Visible as a faint but distinct circular vegetation parch mark (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 593-2), and situated on a gentle E-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-201 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying, level pasture. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (16-3-2011) as the cropmark of a square enclosure (L c. 30m; Wth c. 30m). A ringfort site (R0048-084----) lies in the adjoining field c. 90m to the ESE. See attached image: RO048-201_01 Google Earth aerial image (16-3-2011) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 2 February 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowkeeny, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowkeeny

Area

1,407,646 m² (140.76 ha, 347.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoom, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

436 people lived in 151 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmullan, Atteagh, Carrowncloghan, Carrownolan, Curraghboy, Gortnasythe

Placenames

Carrowkeeny 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.