Lecarrow

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 1,564 m² to 103,170 m² (10.32 ha, 25.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Lecarrow 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.

• 1 Apr 2021Refused

  development consisting of the construction of one wind turbine up to 5MW with overall tip height of up to 180m; Construct the wind turbine foundation, hard standing and assembly area; Provide a site entrance and an access track within the site; Construct an on-site 20kV substation and underground electrical cable; Install a 7.9km underground grid connection, which passes throught the following townlands: Rathbaun, Templehouse Demesne, Kilbrattan, Portinch, Emlaghnaghtan, Cartron (Percival), Cartron (Phibbs), Lecarrow, Carrowkeel, Cloonkeevy, Ballybrennan, connecting into the existing ESB Substation; and construct all associated site development and ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared with this planning application

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 21113

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 Lecarrow.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-081 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low rise on a slight SE-facing slope. Views are good to excellent in all directions. A roughly circular area (7.5m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m; Wth 1.3m at top). Large limestone stones (diam. c. 0.4m) occur frequently in the bank material. The interior is level and flush with the external ground surface. 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 Lecarrow.

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 Lecarrow, 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 Lecarrow.

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

Name

Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú

Area

226,205 m² (22.62 ha, 55.9 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Owenmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

102 people lived in 45 households in the Owenmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Cartron (Phibbs), Cartronroe, Emlaghnaghtan

Placenames

Lecarrow 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.