Carrigeens

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigeens, from 1,497 m² to 112,376 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Carrigeens 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.

• 8 Mar 2023N/a

  development consisting of construction of storey & a half dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2328

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 Carrigeens.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrigeens.

Architectural heritage

• Dromore West Union Workhouse, workhouse, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey rendered former Union Workhouse, built 1852, burnt during the civil war and derelict since 1922. Partially in use as an sculptor's studio and house. Originally consisting of buildings ranged around two courtyards symmetrically disposed to either side of a north-south axis through a central hall (chapel?). East wing now demolished. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, stone verges, half-round cast-iron gutters on exposed rafter ends. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, stone sills, painted multiple-paned timber casement windows typically consisting of twenty-one pane horizontally-pivoted casement over two fifteen-pane side-hung casements with central mullion. Segmental-headed door openings, smooth-rendered reveals, dressed stone surrounds, painted three-panel timber doors. Central courtyard with buildings in various states of disrepair and partial collapse. Pair of ashlar limestone gate pillars each with plain frieze, concave cornice and pyramidal cap stone, flanking rubble stone walls with square-headed pedestrian opening to east, spiral carved slab set in ground to north of east pillar. Complex set back from main road, approached by long tree-lined avenue.

• Bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-span limestone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1840. Coursed rock-faced ashlar walling rising to form parapets, triangular buttresses to east side of south elevation. Long-span central segmental arch flanked by short-span round-headed arches, rock-faced ashlar voussoirs. Rock-faced ashlar piers between arches with semi-circular cutwaters to each end, with projecting strings and domed capstones. Roughly-dressed sandstone copings to parapets. Bitmac carriageway. Spans east-west over Easkey River.

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 Carrigeens, 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 Carrigeens.

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

Name

Carrigeens · An Carraigín

Area

279,393 m² (27.94 ha, 69.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Buncrowey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

294 people lived in 123 households in the Buncrowey electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahowna, Camcuill, Cuskernagh, Patch, Toorboy

Placenames

Carrigeens 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.