Carroward

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carroward, from 90 m² to 300,910 m² (30.09 ha, 74.36 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 Carroward 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.

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of 10-year permission for a mountain bike trail recreational development in the townlands, Seevness, Altnavelick, Carrowgaveen, Gortakeeran, Lismacbryan, Lugbaun, Lugnadeffa, Mullanashee, Rathosey, and Tullaghan, Coolaney, Co. Sligo. The proposed development includes 80km of bike trails, approximately 0.6m wide (within a corridor of 100m) including boundary treatments, signage, and all associated works. The proposed development will also include a new building containing changing and washing facilities, a cafe, bicycle hire facilities, the construction of parking areas, a bike wash, the installation of a wastewater treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works, water connection/supply from a public main and associated services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17294

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 Carroward.

Recorded monuments

• SL019-147001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated in hilly pasture on the N-facing lower slopes of the Ox Mountains. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Slightly raised circular area (diam. c.23.5m) defined from SE-SSE-S by a stoney rise (Wth. 5.8m; int. H 0.35m) which probably incorporates original wall footings. Elsewhere the perimeter is obscured by later field walls. Original entrance not recognisable. Within the interior is souterrain (SL019-147002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-147002 Souterrain
  Description

  At Carroward cashel (SL019-147001-). Within the W half of the interior are traces of a linear hollow (L 9.7m NNW-SSE; Wth. 1m - 2m; D 0.6m) with protruding stones visible in places. It was uncovered in 1958 and is described as comprising 'a deep passage roofed with slabs and entered by a rudimentary stone stairway' (Sligo Independent 19:04:1958). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-148 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a heavily wooded knoll at the base of the N-facing slopes of the Ox Mountains. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 19.4m) defined from N-NE-E by a scarp which at N merges with the steep slope of the knoll. At the upper edge of the scarp from SE-S-NW is a low rise (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.6m) revetted internally and capped with a low field boundary wall. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carroward.

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 Carroward, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carroward · An Cheathrú Ard

Area

2,130,530 m² (213.05 ha, 526.47 acres)

Civil parish

Dromard, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Dromard West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

207 people lived in 66 households in the Dromard West electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Carrowbleagh East, Cloonagh, Corskeagh, Gortakeeran, Lavagh, Toorard

Placenames

Carroward 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.