Carrowbrickeen

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbrickeen, from 565 m² to 97,689 m² (9.77 ha, 24.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Carrowbrickeen 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.

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new detached dwelling house, together with an effluent treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17274

• 10 Apr 2017Conditional

  development consisting of: (1) demolition of existing derelict dwelling house/sheds (2) construction of replacement dwelling house (3) construction of domestic garage (4) installation of septic tank system and percolation area (5) upgrading and extension of existing access road (6) carrying out of all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17134

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Ballysadare Bay SPA 004129

Recorded monuments

• SL013-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight NE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (dims. 21m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a broad, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.95m; int. H 0.4m) with a wide external fosse (Wth 8.25m; D 0.3m) visible from SW-ESE. From NW-NE and from ESE-SW the bank is absent and the enclosing element is a scarp (H 1.8m). The edge of the site is incorporated into a field wall SE-SW. The original entrance is not discernable. Wall footings of derelict farmhouse abut the edge of the site at SE. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-028 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL013-029001 Enclosure
  Description

  On high ground in fairly good undulating pasture with excellent views. Circular raised area (int. dims. c. 31m N-S; c. 3.5m E-W; H 3.5-4m) enclosed by bank, a poorly preserved external bank at E and N and an intervening fosse which can be seen at N. Original entrance not recognisable. There is a tower house (SL013-029002-) and a possible bawn (SL013-029003) in the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-029002 Castle - tower house
  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.

• SL013-029003 Bawn
  Description

  Situated in the interior of a ringfort (SL013-029001-) to the W of a tower House (SL13-029202-). All that survive are a series of sod-covered stone foundations which extend from the N and S parts of the bank to the centre of the site. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-074001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight broad rise in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 5m; int. H 0.75m). From SSW-NW there is a fosse (Wth 6m; D 1.4m) which is infilled but still visible from NW-ENE. A break in the bank at SSE (Wth 4m) with a causeway across the fosse marks the position of the original entrance. There are two modern breaks in the bank at NE (Wth 1.9m) and at E (Wth 2.2m). A small quarry hole lies immediately within the bank at E. At the N side of the interior is a slightly raised crescent shaped platform of uncertain significance (L E-W 12m; Wth N-S 5m; H 0.3m) defined by the bank of the rath W-E and by a scarped edge on the S side. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-076 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Possible circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) visible in aerial photograph. No remains of the site are now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL013-110002 Well
  Description

  Small, roughly rectangular field enclosed by a drystone wall. This wall is not shown on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is no evidence to suggest that this wall is of archaeological significance or that it follows an earlier enclosure. There is a well (SL013-011001-), of no obvious archaeolgical significance, located near the NW corner. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1840. Flat-roofed porch to east elevation. Pitched thatch roof, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneys, concrete skews. Lime-washed smooth-rendered walling, moulded cornice to porch roof. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber panelled door. Forecourt and lawn between house and road, painted smooth-rendered boundary wall to east, dry stone walls to west, wrought-iron double gates on square smooth-rendered piers, single-storey rubble-stone outbuildings with corrugated iron roofs to north.

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 Carrowbrickeen, 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

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

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

Name

Carrowbrickeen · Ceathrú Bhricín

Area

942,292 m² (94.23 ha, 232.85 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Toberpatrick East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

232 people lived in 88 households in the Toberpatrick East electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownteane, Carrowreagh, Derk Beg, Derk More, Falfin, Fallathurteen, Portavaud

Placenames

Carrowbrickeen 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.