Carrowkeel

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowkeel, from 306 m² to 134,246 m² (13.42 ha, 33.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

• 3 Mar 2026N/a

  Planning Permission for changes to elevations of former public house at Carrowkeel, Sooey, Co. Sligo.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660084

• 20 Aug 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of extension and alterations to existing school a) Removal of temporary portacabin classroom to side (west) off site and relocation of storage shed and oil tank on site, b) Provision of extension to the front (south), to include a new classroom, office, store, assisted WC, Set Room and link corridor, (c) Provision of retaining walls external steps to the front (south), all associated site development works including connection to on-site services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18337

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

• SL027-037001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slightly raised area, in low-lying poorly drained pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 28m) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.1m) has internal stone facing and traces of external stone kerbing. The entrance (Wth c. 3m), which is at ESE, is obscured by overgrowth but is possibly stone-lined. The intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m) is evident all round. The external bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) is evident W-N. The interior is partially covered with overgrowth and bisected by a low N-S field boundary. There is a souterrain (SL027-037002-) in the S half of the interior. The perimeter of the rath is densely overgrown with trees and bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL027-037002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the S half of a rath (SL027-037001-), immediately E of a field boundary which bisects the rath. An opening (c. 1m x 0.6m) reveals a stone-lined chamber or a wide passage with a narrower passage leading off it to ESE. According to local information, the souterrain was discovered in 1968 when a stone in the centre of the rath collapsed (NMI). A sketch plan drawn in 1984 (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney) shows two rectangular chambers (Chamber C: min. L 4.5m; Wth 1m; H 1.5m; Chamber B: L 3.2m; Wth 1.1m; H 1.5m) joined by a creepway (L 0.4m; Wth 0.55m; H 0.8m); a third chamber (Chamber A: L 9.4m; Wth 1.25-1.85m; H 1.75m), which has rounded corners, is at right angles to chamber B and accessed from it via another creepway (L 0.7m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.9m). An air vent (L 3m) in chamber A is also shown on the plan. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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 high, 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. Sligo.

Name

Carrowkeel · An Cheathrú Chaol

Area

500,433 m² (50.04 ha, 123.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

462 people lived in 163 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooskirt, Gaddan Beg, Lissaneeny, Sooey, Srananagh

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.