Carrowreagh

Area

101,539 m² (10.15 ha, 25.09 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 54 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Carrowreagh

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 9 recorded monuments.

• SL040-140001 Church
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a low rise c. 40m NE of a road; in the E side of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). The ruin of a rectangular church (ext. 20.1m E-W; 7.16m N-S), the W end of which has been reduced to low sod-covered foundations. The standing walls are built of random-rubble limestone with dressed-stone quoins. In the centre of the E gable is a splayed and lintelled window embrasure, the single light of which has a pointed arch and is rebated and chamfered on its external edge. The upper portion of the internal face of this wall is beginning to collapse. Near the centre of the S wall (L 11.78m) is a small lintelled window embrasure with a square-headed light. A gap (Wth 1.8m) near the E end of this wall may mark the position of a window ope. The W wall (L 9.9m) contains no window or doorway opes. According to M. A. Timoney (2002b, 57), the W end of the church contained a room to house the resident cleric. The interior is covered by scrub overgrowth. These are the remains of the medieval parish church of Toomour. A section of Bóthar an Corann (SL033-145----) lies c. 400m to SW. There is a local tradition that St Patrick threw a stone from here and a spring rose from where it fell at the holy well (SL040-138----) (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

• SL040-140003 Leacht
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a graveyard (SL040-140004-), recessed into a low E-facing slope. A low sod-covered cairn (5m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.7m) with a roughly constructed E-facing drystone facade (H 0.8m) flanked by collapsed walls (Wth 0.6m; H 0.6m) that project to E for c. 3m. Immediately to the E of the facade is a slight depression (3.3m E-W; 3m N-S) containing a saint's stone (SL040-14008-). Along the top of the facade are eleven holy stones (SL040-140006-) and a perforated stone as well as two of the three cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140005-; SL040-140009-; SL040-140010-) associated with the leacht. The leacht is known locally as the 'Grave of the Kings' (see photograph in Kilgannon 1926, 264) as it is said that following the battle of Ceis Corran in 971, all the chiefs were interred here. Some human bones were found underneath one of the cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140009-), known as the 'Altar-table', during an exploration of the leacht, instigated by Terence O'Rorke prior to 1889 (O'Rorke [1889] vol. 2, 214). 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

• SL040-140004 Graveyard
  Description

  A raised subrectangular area (45m E-W; 26m N-S at W end; 39m N-S at E end) defined by a poorly constructed drystone wall (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.6m; T c. 1m). The ruin of the medieval parish church of Toomour (SL040-140001-) is located on the E side; its E wall is incorporated into the graveyard wall. The interior is grass-covered and generally level but S of the centre it slopes gently to the S. A leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-), holy stones (SL040-140006-), three cross-inscribed stones (SL040-140005-; SL040-140009-; SL040-140010-) and a saint's stone (SL040-140008-) are in the SW quadrant. There are no visible remains of headstones or other grave-markers. The graveyard has recently been enclosed by a post-and-wire fence (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). A bishop of 'Tuaim-fobhair' [Toomour] was ordained by St Kevin of Glendalough in the 6th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 407). There are no visible remains of any ecclesiastical enclosure around the graveyard. 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

• SL040-140005 Cross-slab
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). One of three cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140009-; SL040-140010-) associated with the leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-). A fragment of a sandstone slab (0.23m x 0.2m; T 0.06m), with a cross incised on one face, lies on top of the leacht cuimhne. The cross consists of two close-set parallel grooves, crossed at right angles by a single groove. 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

• SL040-140006 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  On top of a leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-) within the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). Arranged in a row along the top of the E facade of the leacht cuimhne are eleven water-rolled stones (max. dim. 0.25m). Wood-Martin (1892, 366) noted seventeen of these stones and recorded that they were known locally as the 'dicket stones'. Also on top of the leacht is a sandstone block (0.3m x 0.19m; T 0.18m) with a small circular perforation (diam. 0.1m) close to one edge. The perforation has an hour-glass cross section through the thickness of the stone. 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

• SL040-140007 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  A bishop of 'Tuaim-fobhair' [Toomour] was ordained by St Kevin of Glendalough in the 6th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 407). The outline of the N arc of this enclosure is visible on the OSI 1995 aerial photograph and it is possible that its footprint is represeneted by the field boundaries to the S of the road. Within the possible enclosure are the graveyard (SL040-140004-) and the medieval parish church of Toomour (SL040-140001-), a leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-), on top of which is a set of holy stones (SL040-140006-), and three cross inscribed stones (SL040-140005-; SL040-140009-; SL040-040010-). Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL040-140008 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  In Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-), immediately to the W of a leacht cuimhne (SL040-14003-), is a large flat slab (min. dims. 1.1m x 1.1m) embedded in the ground. On its exposed surface are three, and possibly a fourth, shallow circular depressions (diam.: 0.14m; 0.16m; 0.19m; 0.3m), said to be the imprints of 'the knees of the saint of the place [probably St Luidhigh] in his constant prayers at the Altar' (O'Rorke [1889] vol. 2, 213). Also incised on this stone, close to the S edge, are three simple equal-armed crosses (dims: 0.16 x 0.15m; 0.16m x 0.14m; 0.13m x 0.14m), all 2-3cm wide, though a sketch of the stone in O'Rorke (ibid., 212) shows six crosses. 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

• SL040-140009 Cross-slab
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). One of three cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140005-; SL040-140010-) associated with the leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-). A rectangular slab (0.47m x 0.32m; T 0.05m), on top of the leacht cuimhne, is incised with a double rectangular frame (there is a third line on one side) within which is a pattern of crossed lines described by Crawford (1913b, 165) as a 'combined cross and saltire'. O'Rorke ([1889] vol. 2, 213) recorded that this slab is known locally as the 'Altar-table' and some human bones were found under it following an exploration of the leacht cuimhne, instigated by Terence O'Rorke prior to 1889 (ibid., 214). 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

• SL040-140010 Cross-slab
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). One of three cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140005-; SL040-140009-) associated with the leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-). A cross-inscribed slab (H 0.66m; Wth 0.28m; T 0.1m), which was incorporated into the W face of the leacht cuimhne, has been removed as it cracked when the leacht collapsed prior to 1889 and is now in temporary storage locally (see SL039-163----) having been repaired (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). The top right-hand corner of the stone had been broken off in antiquity. A single continuous line (Wth 2cm; D 0.8cm) forms the outline of a Latin cross which occupies the top two thirds of the stone and extends onto the top and right and left sides of the stone. Below the base of the cross are two further lines, that on the right hand side is straight and that on the left side forms a U shape. 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). Revised: 21 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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