Carrownrush

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownrush, from 606 m² to 168,394 m² (16.84 ha, 41.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrownrush 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.

• 19 Mar 2024Conditional

  a) Construction of an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms. b) Construction of a drafting area with handling facilities, livestock waiting yard and associated underground slatted storage tank. c) Erection of a meal bin and external water storage tank. d) Modification of existing entrance, access road and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460080

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 Carrownrush.

Recorded monuments

• SL012-006 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Not marked as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Small, approximately triangular-shaped promontory (30m NW-SE; 27.5m NE-SW) extending in a NW direction into Sligo Bay. The SW, NW and NE sides are defined by sea rocks. The promontory is cut off from the surrounding land at SE by a low bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.3-0.6m) of earth and stone which appears to be a relatively modern, although now-disused, field boundary. The promontory is marked 'Lackavarna' on the OS 1913 ed. of the 6-inch map. Within the same townland, 60m to SE there is a second possible promontory fort (SL012-007----). (Casey M. 1988, pers. comm.) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-007 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Approximately triangular area (13 NW-SE; 11.5m NE-SW) extending NE into Sligo Bay. At NE this is defined by steep sea cliffs and at S by a narrow E-W inlet marked 'Oughwore' on the 1913 edition of the map. The promontory is cut off from the surrounding land at W by a low bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.3-0.5m) of earth and stone which appears to be a relatively modern feature. Within the same townland, 60m to NW there is a second possible promontory fort (SL012-006----). (M. Casey 1988, pers. comm.) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-008003 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on flat ground with a steep curving slope to the N which drops down to the coastal plain, (83m OD). The surrounding area consists of enclosed pasture defined by stone walls. It is located within a large circular enclosure of possible Neolithic date (Kelly 2018) that consists of an external ditch and an internal bank (SL012-008001-). A mortared rubble stone wall runs from E to W across the enclosure, dividing off the signal tower and the northern third of the enclosure from the southern two thirds. The wall was an element of the enclosed landscape in which the signal tower is set. Within the large enclosure there is a smaller sub-circular ditched enclosure (SL012-008002-) suspected to be an early medieval enclosure. The site has unobstructed views in all directions. Rathlee Signal Tower (SL011-025001-), located c. 10.6kms to the WNW, is currently obscured by intervening forestry. Knocklane Hill Signal Tower SL007-057----), located c. 16.6kms to the NE, has been largely demolished\collapsed and cannot be seen from the site. An early nineteenth-century (c. 1804-6) two-storey square-plan signal tower, built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry (int. dims. 4.31m N-S x 4.52m E-W)). The signal tower is particularly well preserved, surviving to its full height (H. c. 11.25). The N wall is the tallest with the other sides being slightly lower, reflecting the slight slopes\topography of the area adjacent to the tower. The N wall features a square-headed doorway to the centre at first floor level that would have been accessed via a retractable ladder. The doorway retains cut stone block-and-start surrounds, cut stone threshold, and cut stone lintel over with central projecting keystone. The door is protected by a wide machicolation over supported by three sloping cut stone corbels with two cut stone slabs providing the base at parapet level. The machicolation features short narrow gun loops in the centre of each of its three walls. The E and W walls each feature two square-headed windows at ground and first floor levels. The N ground floor window on the E wall was later opened up to form a ground floor entrance. Cut stone block-and-start surrounds, cut stone sills, and cut stone lintels with projecting keystones are retained to all window openings apart from the window opening later widened to create a doorway. The first floor windows on both the E and W walls have been blocked up with neat rubble stone masonry. The S wall features a central slight outward bulge that houses the chimney flue. A partially collapsed rubble stone chimneystack is located on top of the centre of the S elevation. A small horizontal chute passes through the E side of the S wall at ground level, connecting to the top of the semi-basement level. The SE and SW corners of the signal tower are protected by bartizans supported by three sloping cut stone corbels, with two large stone slabs providing the base of each bartizan at parapet level. The bartizans project straight out from the wall and feature sharp curving corners on the diagonal points. The bartizans feature short narrow gun loops in the centre of each of their four walls. The parapet survives to all elevations, which extends around the bartizans and the machicolation over the door, and retains fine chamfered cut stone coping over. The internal space consists of a semi-basement level, which is almost entirely infilled with soil, a ground-floor room with a split mezzanine level, a first-floor room, and a low attic level. The flat roof had been accessible from the attic level. The floors and the roof of the building had been wooden and were carried in the thickness of the wall. No parts of the floors or the roof have survived but rows of joist-holes indicate their former positions. The internal walls are covered in a layer of smooth lime render, although this does not extend into the semi-basement level. The S wall features central fireplaces flanked by segmental-headed alcoves at the ground floor and by square-headed alcoves at first floor level. The chute which passes through the S wall opened up into the semi-basement level below the position of the E ground floor alcove. A square sectioned internal drainage channel runs down the SE corner of the building. This is believed to have brought rainwater from the roof to storage barrels in the semi-basement. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on 08\11\21 Images: SL012-008003-.01 N exterior SL012-008003-.02 E exterior SL012-008003-.03 S exterior SL012-008003-.04 W exterior SL012-008003-.05 SE Oblique exterior SL012-008003-.06 SW oblique exterior SL012-008003-.07 E interior 1 SL012-008003-.08 E interior 2 SL012-008003-.09 E interior 3 SL012-008003-.10 N interior 1 SL012-008003-.11 N interior 2 SL012-008003-.12 N interior 3 SL012-008003-.13 S interior 1 SL012-008003-.14 S interior 2 SL012-008003-.15 S interior 3 SL012-008003-.16 W interior 1 SL012-008003-.17 W interior 2 SL012-008003-.18 W interior 3 SL012-008003-.19 E exterior drawing SL012-008003-.20 N exterior drawing SL012-008003-.21 W exterior drawing SL012-008003-.22 S exterior drawing SL012-008003-.23 E interior drawing SL012-008003-.24 N exterior drawing SL012-008003-.25 W interior drawing SL012-008003-.26 S interior drawing SL012-008003-.27 Plan of site SL012-008003-.28 Field wall to site

Architectural heritage

• Carrownrush Tower, signal tower, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey stone signal tower, built c. 1805, with later work at parapet level c. 1850. Square on plan with slightly V-shaped south elevation, corbelled bartizans to south-east and south-west corners, corbelled 'garderobe' to centre of north elevation. Rubble stone walling, ashlar stone copings to parapets. Square-headed window openings to north, east and west elevations, ashlar stone dressings, stone sills, windows missing. Entrance missing but assumed to be on east elevation. Both internal floor structures missing. Sited on promontory overlooking Sligo Bay to the east.

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 Carrownrush, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrownrush · Ceathrú an Rois

Area

624,364 m² (62.44 ha, 154.28 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Easky East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

626 people lived in 253 households in the Easky East electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmably, Doonaltan

Placenames

Carrownrush 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.