Lecarrowkilleen

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrowkilleen, from 136 m² to 137,085 m² (13.71 ha, 33.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  construct 12 no. dwelling houses consisting of 2 no. 2 bed detached bungalows, 2 no. 3 bed semi-detached bungalows, 4 no. 4 bed detached dwellings and 4 no. 4 bed semi-detached dwellings. Also connect to public sewer/surface water and public water main including all other ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23575

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND REAR EXTENSION ON A SITE WITH REVISED SITE LAYOUT/BOUNDARIES. FULL PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT FOR RETENTION OF REVISED ENTRANCE/DRIVEWAY LOCATIONS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17266

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 Lecarrowkilleen.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-002 Standing stone
  Description

  On a roadside grass margin, now mounted on a concrete kerb. Locals say the stone (H 1.1m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.2m) was much larger and has been relocated to its present site. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 56. Date of upload: 12 December 2014

• MA121-197001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In the western corner of a damp, rush-grown pasture field, located adjacent to a stream. A roughly horse-shoe shaped grassy mound (10.4m NNE/SSW, 2.7m WNW-ESE; max. H 0.7m), with an opening to the west indicating the position of the trough (pers. comm. R. Crumlish 2010). There is a possible fulacht fia (MA121-097002) 1m to S. Attached photograph (MA121-197001_01) is courtesy of Mr. R. Crumlish, taken in April 2010. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 January 2015

• MA121-197002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In the western corner of a damp, rush-grown pasture field, located adjacent to a stream. This possible fulacht fia consists of an irregular-shaped, grass-covered mound (5m NW–SE, 2.7m NE–SW; H 0.4m). There is a fulacht fia (MA121-097001-) 1m to N. (pers. comm. R. Crumlish 2010). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 January 2015

Architectural heritage

• Neale Church (Ballinchalla-Kilmolara), church/chapel, 1775–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1778, with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. "Improved", 1812[?]. In use, 1911. Disused, 1945. In ruins, 1976. Roofs now missing. Rendered battered walls over coursed rubble limestone construction; rendered surface finish to tower with lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses including cut-limestone "Cavetto" stringcourse (bell stage) supporting crow stepped battlemented parapet having lichen-covered cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings including pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with cut-limestone sills, and hammered or squared limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Segmental-headed window opening to tower (first stage) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Square-headed "arrow loop" openings (second stage), concealed dressings with dragged cut-limestone "bas-relief" hood mouldings over. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates.

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 Lecarrowkilleen, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Lecarrowkilleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Lecarrowkilleen · Leithcheathrú an Chillín

Area

993,220 m² (99.32 ha, 245.43 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Ballyrourke, Ballyshingadaun, Caherduff, Kildun Beg, Kildun More, Loughanaganky, Muckrussaun, Nealepark

Placenames

Lecarrowkilleen 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.