Carrowloughlin

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowloughlin, from 510 m² to 146,041 m² (14.6 ha, 36.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Carrowloughlin 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.

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460132

• 30 Aug 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21339

• 12 Feb 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a road underpass including all ancillary site works and improvement of farmyard entrance etc. all for agricultural purposes only adjacent to existing dairy farm yard area.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2035

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 Carrowloughlin.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-039 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on the top of a low drumlin. The castle is now reduced to sod-covered foundations outlining a rectangular structure (int. dims: c. 15m N-S; c. 16m E-W; wall T 0.6m). A structure, which appeared to be the remains of a tower house, stood here into the 1970s (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). 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

• SL039-040 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flat pasture, in a slight hollow, adjacent to a road. A spring well enclosed by a rectangular concrete structure (1.25m x 1.25m) with an opening on the NE side. Access from the road immediately to SE is via steps built into the field fence which separates the road and the well. The present elderly landowner recalls no tradition of holy use. Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1) noted that this well was 'formerly held in estimation as "holy"'. 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

• SL039-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low broad drumlin. A raised circular area (int. diam. 25m N-S; 26.6m E-W) enclosed by three earthen banks with intervening fosses. The inner bank is low (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m), the middle bank is slightly higher (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m) while the outer bank is also low (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m). All three banks are covered with bushes and have numerous gaps. The two intervening fosses are 2.7m (innermost fosse) and 3m (outer fosse) wide respectively. The interior, which slopes down to E, is poached by cattle. 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

• SL039-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-facing slope, close to a farmyard. A circular area (31.5m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.7m). The bank is removed in parts. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at W. The N portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. 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 Carrowloughlin.

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 Carrowloughlin, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowloughlin · Ceathrú Lochlainn

Area

796,712 m² (79.67 ha, 196.87 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Cloonoghill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 119 households in the Cloonoghill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfahy, Deechomade, Drumfarnoght, Knockanimma, Knocknakillew or Woodhill, Lecarrow, Spurtown (Duke)

Placenames

Carrowloughlin 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.