Carrowcrin
Carrowcrin is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacowen, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú Chrainn.
Parcel 771106
- Area
- 6,426 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Carrowcrin
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 49.8 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 65
- registered freehold, median 4,085 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcrin, from 9 m² to 53,473 m² (5.35 ha, 13.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrowcrin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Nov 2024Conditional
to construct new detached dwelling house with onsite wastewater treatment system, detached domestic garage, connection to public services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460440
16 May 2019Conditional
PP - for development consisting of 1. Demolishing of sheds to the front & side of the existing cottage and the erection of single & two storey extension to the front & side of the existing cottage. 2. Demolishing of the existing stone boundary wall alongside the front and erect new 1 meter high stone wall with pedestrian and vehicular access. 3. Installation of a new waste water treatment plant and percolation area. 4. Carrying out all other associated site and ground works all within the confines of the site
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19188
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballysadare Bay SAC 000622
- Special Protection Area: Ballysadare Bay SPA 004129
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballysadare Bay 000622
Recorded monuments
- SL020-002001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a rise in undulating ground in pasture within view of Knocknarea. This bivallate ringfort comprises an oval area (int. dims. 36m by 12.40m) enclosed by an inner bank (Wth 7m, H 2.20m). There is an external ditch (Wth 4m) and lower outer bank (Wth 3.20m, H 0.60m) with no indication of an external ditch or an entrance. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 29th July 2013
- SL020-002002 Souterrain
Description
A souterrain is stated to be situated in a ringfort (SL020-002002-). There are no visible surface remains. Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 29th July 2013
- SL020-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a local high point in pasture overlooking Ballysadare Bay. Comprises a circular raised area (int. diam. 30m) enclosed by a degraded bank (Wth 5.60m, H 0.40m) and built on a platform (H 0.50m). There is no indication of a ditch or entrance. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 30th July 2013
- SL020-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a natural rise in flat to undulating ground. Site is overgrown with thorn bushes. Comprises a circular raised area (H 0.60m). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 21 October 2013
- SL020-027 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Located on a natural rise in flat to undulating ground. Comprises an oval raised area (int. diam. 19m) enclosed by a bank(Wth 3m, H 0.70m) and external shallow ditch (Wth 2.50m, D 0.80m). No indication of an entrance. The site has been partly quarried on the N edge. Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 31 July 2013
- SL020-188 Field boundary
Description
Just to the W of the modern field boundary and parallel to it are the remains of an earlier boundary running in a N-S direction and surviving as a discontinuous line of boulders. No indication of the mass rock (Pers comm. Martin Timoney 1989). Compiled by : Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowcrin.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowcrin, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowcrin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowcrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowcrin · Ceathrú Chrainn
- Area
- 497,667 m² (49.77 ha, 122.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacowen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Kilmacowen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,347 people lived in 830 households in the Kilmacowen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breeoge, Cartronabree, Lisheenacooravan, Templenabree
- Placenames
- Carrowcrin 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.