Lecarrow
Lecarrow is a townland in the civil parish of Burrishoole, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Leithcheathrú.
Parcel 882157
- Area
- 11,632 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 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
- Lecarrow
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
- 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 high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_213 (ZIP).
- 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
- 165.5 ha
- 409 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 6,026 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 209 m² to 182,425 m² (18.24 ha, 45.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Sept 2026N/a
Construction of a new dwelling together with all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660698
11 Aug 2026N/a
Construction of a new dwelling together with ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660639
3 Jul 2026Conditional
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST of the construction of a two storey side extension, rear entrance rain shelter, new sewerage treatment system, minor elevational changes and all associated works, on revised site boundaries to those previously granted under planning ref. 22/1017
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660529
31 Oct 2025Conditional
The development will consist of renovations and alterations to elevations of the existing derelict dwelling, with extensions to same, together with ancillary site works at this address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560764
29 Jan 2025Refused
Construction of a Bungalow Dwelling, Effluent Treatment System and Together with site access & all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560047
3 Apr 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23181
21 Nov 2022N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Renovate house, knocking the rear extension which was in poor condition and constructing a new extension within the exemption guidelines
Permission · Mayo County Council, 221017
16 Nov 2020Conditional
DEMOLISH EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20881
3 Nov 2017Conditional
ESSENTIAL REPAIRS TO EXISTING 38KV LINE BETWEEN NEWPORT STATION AND ACHILL STATION. WORKS WILL INCLUDE REPLACING EXISTING DOUBLE WOOD POLES, STAYS AND HEADGEAR IN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARRICKANEADY, CLOONESHIL, DRUMLONG, CAMCLOON, DERRYLOUGHAN, DERRINTAGGART, KILTARNAGH, SHANVALLYHUGH, DERRADA, DERRYCOOLDRIM, CARROWSALLAGH, KNOCKBREAGA, TIERNAUR, ROSSGALIV, ROSSTUR, BUNNAHOWN, MURREVAGH, MALLARANNY, COIS LEICE, AN ABHAINN DUBH, TON RE GAOTH, POLL RAITHNI
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17872
27 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT UNIT, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17117
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 Lecarrow.
Recorded monuments
- MA068-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA077-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lecarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú
- Area
- 1,654,707 m² (165.47 ha, 408.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burrishoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Derryloughan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 771 people lived in 280 households in the Derryloughan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickaneady, Carrow More, Clooneshil, Cuilmore, Kilbride, Knockmoyle, Roemore, Shandrum
- 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.