Carragh
Carragh is a townland in the civil parish of Granard, barony of Granard, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Cairthe.
Parcel 83652
- Area
- 53,436 m² (5.34 ha, 13.2 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
- Carragh
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 20 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 113.1 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 139
- registered freehold, median 832 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carragh, from 5 m² to 159,054 m² (15.91 ha, 39.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
- R2Residential (Existing residential)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 94 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Reservation Objective (Strategic reserve, White land)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S1Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Education)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S2Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Health and related)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Carragh 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carragh.
Recorded monuments
- LF011-012 Enclosure
Description
On wet, low-lying ground. A small, raised, oval area (14m ENE-WSW; 10.2m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a narrow low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.3-1.85m; H 0.6-0.8m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2-2.3m; D 0.1m). No trace of the latter survives from SW-N-NNE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Lazy-beds are evident within the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 January 2012
Architectural heritage
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding five-bay hall-type Roman Catholic church, built 1838 and altered c. 1960 and c. 1980. Comprises four-bay nave with single-bay chancel (under same roof) attached to the north end. Shallow canted projection and pitched-roofed extension and lean-to to the east elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with metal rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone bellcote to the gable apex to the north (chancel) having moulded limestone cornice and limestone cross finial over; wrought-iron cross finial to the gable apex to the south. Roughcast rendered walls over rendered plinth course. Carved limestone date plaque to the centre of the west elevation. Pointed arch window openings having flush cut limestone block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills with stained glass windows. Rendered surrounds to window openings to chancel (west and east elevations). Pointed arch doorway to the south end of the west elevation having flush cut limestone block-and-start surround, stained glass overlight, and battened timber double doors (inner) and modern glazed outer doors. Interior has rendered panelled ceiling, and rendered walls with rendered cornices. Marble altar goods. Graveyard adjacent to site (south, southwest and to the west). Set slightly back from road to the northeast of Granard. Car park to the west.
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 Carragh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carragh.
- 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 Carragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Carragh · Cairthe
- Area
- 1,131,499 m² (113.15 ha, 279.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Granard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Granard Urban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,268 people lived in 494 households in the Granard Urban electoral division. 47% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnagarron, Ballinrud East, Ballinrud Glebe, Ballinrud West, Ballynacross, Cartronbore, Grassyard, Rathcronan, Tromra
- Placenames
- Carragh 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.