Carrowcashel

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcashel, from 227 m² to 197,263 m² (19.73 ha, 48.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowcashel 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL027-124001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, near the N end of a rocky bluff, and 8m S of an inland promontory fort (SL027-124002-). Though shown as a rectangular structure (c. 5m N-S; c. 15m E-W), named 'Douglas Castle', on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, it is now levelled. Differential vegetation growth, however, outlines the roughly square area (L c. 15m) where the castle once stood. According to local information, low stone walls marked the site until about the middle of the 20th century when they were removed. The castle gets its name from the nearby Douglas River. 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

• SL027-124002 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  In pasture, occupying a rocky bluff at the N end of a low narrow ridge. The roughly rectangular end of the bluff (28m N-S; 17m E-W) is defined to E, N and W by steep slopes topped by low field boundary walls, and to S by a scarp (H c. 1m) which slopes irregularly down to S. The site of Castle Douglas (SL027-124001-) is c. 8m to S. 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

• SL027-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a low ridge. The rath is levelled. It is now evident as a circular area (18m NE-SW; 18m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) along the S and W arcs. A step along the N and E arcs, where the interior is cut into the upslope, appears to be of recent origin. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a hachured circular area (diam. c. 20m) incorporated into a field boundary system along the S arc. 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

• SL027-126 Enclosure
  Description

  In low lying marshy ground, c. 20m E of the Douglas River. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). It is not visible at ground level. The area is now cut by a number of shallow drains. 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

• Bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch stone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1810. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling. Segmental-arched openings, tooled ashlar voussoirs alternating long and short with long voussoirs slightly projecting, pointed pyramid-capped tooled ashlar cut-waters, wrought-iron ties with circular pattresses in arch spandrels, low rubble stone parapets, as-found stone block copings. Macadamed road surface. Plastic services pipe attached to east side. Located to north of village, grass banks to both sides.

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 Carrowcashel, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1182 (ZIP).

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

Name

Carrowcashel · Ceathrú Chaisil

Area

883,040 m² (88.3 ha, 218.2 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcolumb, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcumber, Ardkeeran, Cuiltylough, Emlagh, Rosmore, Rusheen

Placenames

Carrowcashel 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.