Rathcarrick

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcarrick, from 167 m² to 501,088 m² (50.11 ha, 123.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Rathcarrick 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 Rathcarrick 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 Rathcarrick.

Recorded monuments

• SL014-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL014-082 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL014-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL014-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL014-269 Souterrain
  Description

  A possible souterrain was noted in 1989 immediately to NE a rath (SL014-083----). The structure was partly blocked by rubble and difficult to examine. It appeared to consist of a passage flanked by drystone walls constructed of square and rectangular-shaped blocks of stone, with a basal course of very large stones evident in one side wall. Eight large, flat slabs formed the roof, topped with long narrow slabs extending parallel with the side walls. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 July 2015

• SL014-275 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a gently sloping ground in recently clearfelled area on the N slopes of Knocknarea. This is a gneiss erratic and measures c. 1.6m high by 0.8m wide and 0.7m thick. The stone is in situ. It has some rather spectacular natural banding on its west face (pers. comm. Stefan Bergh, 14 August 2014). The attached image (SL014-275----_01.jpg) is uploaded courtesy of Dr. Stefan Bergh. Compiled by: Paul Walsh based on information kindly supplied by Dr Stefan Bergh, NUI Galway. Date of upload: 22 August 2014

• SL014-277 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
  Description

  Following on from the discovery of numerous lithics a survey was commissioned of c.72 acres of a clear-felled irregularly-shaped area in Rathcarrick townland (Hammar and Bergh cited in Coyne 2010, 15). The purpose of the survey was to determine the occurrence of prehistoric lithics exposed by the clear-felling, to record the locations and to indicate the areas of archaeological significance. A certain amount of ground damage had been caused by machinery during the felling process although this varied throughout the area surveyed. The visibility of artefacts was also impacted by the growth of brushwood and scrub. A total number of 3,600 worked lithics was recorded, at 1,035 find spots. Concentrations of finds were influenced by the degree of visibility. It was noted that areas where few finds were recorded should not be seen as indicative of low activity, as this may simply be the result of low visibility. The lithics recovered from the steeper slopes frequently consisted of chunks of chert, cores and flakes and contained very few formal tools. It was also noted that there was a close spatial relationship between high intensity find spots and exposed outcrops. In some cases these exposed outcrops where a high number of lithics were recovered are located just above terraces: these were interpreted as functioning either as possible processing or habitation areas. Most of the formal tools recorded were associated with these areas. A number of depressions or "scoops" were also identified and these were interpreted as possibly indicating prehistoric settlement. Subsequent excavation (licence no. 07E0803) of a sample indicated that the ‘features are unlikely to be the result of anthropogenic activity and are of no archaeological significance.’ (Brady 2010, 423). It has been suggested that the extensive quarrying may be related to the evidence for a lithic industry identified on the eastern side of the summit of Knocknarea, where tool production (notably concave scrapers) was a central part of Neolithic activity on the mountain (Coyne 2010, 15). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 11 March 2014

Architectural heritage

• Rathcarrick House, gate lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey, stone gate lodge, built c. 1870. Central pedimented breakfront containing entrance. Hipped concrete-tiled roof c. 1960, bonnet tiles to ridge and hips, red-brick chimneystack c. 1960, half-round uPVC gutters c. 1995 on painted timber fascias and soffits. Broken coursed limestone walling to main elevation, unpainted smooth-rendered walling to other elevations. Square-headed window openings, dressed ashlar limestone surrounds, flush sills, hood moulding, painted lozenge-paned timber side-hung casement windows. Square-headed door opening, dressed ashlar limestone surround, hood moulding, painted timber glazed door c. 1990, cobbled threshold. Fronting to road, roughcast wall with dressed limestone copings linking to gate screen to west with ashlar limestone piers, wrought-iron gates with cast-iron embellishments.

• Rathcarrick House, house, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay two-storey over basement rendered house, built c. 1790. No longer in use. Extensively modified c. 1873. Main block with asymmetric single-bay breakfront to north end of east elevation, central return with flanking wings to north and south. Hipped slate roofs, gabled to central return, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on painted projecting bracketed eaves with sheeted soffit. Unpainted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, straight V-jointed quoins. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor front elevation and gables of main block, square-headed elsewhere, tripartite aedicules to ground floor with flat entablatures carried on fluted consoles, stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sash windows, two-over-two to part of first floor, six-over-six and three-over-six to return, plain-glazed elsewhere. Square-headed entrance door, with flanking sidelights, pedimented entablature with fluted consoles, painted timber double doors each with three panels, stone approach steps with flanking walls. Set in fields, ruined outbuildings to west, walled garden to north with crenellated tower.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two semi-detached three-bay single-storey rendered houses, built c. 1860. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks each with yellow clay pot, gutters missing. Painted roughcast walling, corbelled eaves course. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors. Grass verge fronting to road.

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 Rathcarrick, 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 high, 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 Rathcarrick.

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 Rathcarrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rathcarrick · Ráth Mhic Con Carraige

Area

945,845 m² (94.58 ha, 233.72 acres)

Civil parish

Killaspugbrone, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Knockaree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,077 people lived in 1,522 households in the Knockaree electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drinaghan, Grange East, Grange North, Knocknarea North, Knocknarea South, Larass or Strandhill, Lecarrow, Scardan Beg

Placenames

Rathcarrick 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.