Carrowneden

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowneden, from 282 m² to 166,741 m² (16.67 ha, 41.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrowneden 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowneden 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 the townland of Carrowneden.

Recorded monuments

• MA102-038 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

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• MA102-039 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on level ground on the top of a NW–SE ridge. The spine of the ridge restricts views to SE but there are extensive views to N–NE. Shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a fosse, this rath has been levelled. The ephemeral outline of a flat circular area (diam. 30m), truncated on its SE edge by a property fence, can still be traced at ground level. Another rath (MA102-040----), also levelled, lies 8m to NNE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA102-040 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a NE-facing slope on a NW–SE ridge. The spine of the ridge restricts views to SE but there are extensive views to N–NE. Shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map as a broadly oval enclosure (c. 45-50m N–S; c. 55-60m E–W), incorporated into a field fence at N–SE which respects the curve of the enclosure. This rath has been levelled. The N–SE curve of the property fence preserves the outline of the E side of the rath but no other evidence of the rath is visible at ground level. It was constructed on a slope, and the interior area appears to have encompassed a relatively level area at S–SW from which ground slopes down to NE. Another rath (MA102-039----), also levelled, lies 8m to SSW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA102-044002 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, located on a prominent rise bordered at NE by a stream gully, straddling the townland boundary. There are broad views NW and SE. There is a church (MA102-044001-) and graveyard (MA102-044002-) c. 300m to N. Knox (1911, 325-7) identified a series of earthworks straddling the townland boundary between Tulrohaun and Carrowneden as the location of a castle (MA102-044001-) mentioned in the 1838 OS Letters but is not marked on the OS 6-inch maps. He suggested it was a MacCostello castle dating to the sixteenth century. He described and drew a plan of a series of contiguous of low, subrectangular earthen platforms or baileys. These were defined by scarps which were originally stone faced, the stones of which he stated had been largely robbed out within living memory. Incorporated into the earthworks he noted a mound (c. 9m x 9m, at base; H c. 2.5m), on which he considered the stone castle once stood. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map, a small cluster of buildings or houses, with associated subrectangular field and garden plots, is shown at this location, with a trackway leading from the settlement towards a Roman Catholic chapel c. 100m to SW. By the time of the 1916 edition, there buildings are no longer shown but two adjacent subrectangular field plots are recorded in hachured outline, incorporated into the townland boundary on their S side. The earthworks are also recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: GSI M54-5, Roll 207, pr. 21). A series of low, grass-covered subrectangular earthworks can still be traced at ground level to N of the Tulrohaun/Carrowneden townland boundary, where they broadly conform to the hachured features shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map and possibly equate with some of the earthworks illustrated in Knox’s plan. A roughly square mound (9m NNE–SSW; 9m WNW–ESE; max H 1.6m at NNE), incorporated into the townland boundary wall on the S and W sides, may correspond to the feature identified by Knox as the castle mound. Immediately to the E, N and W of the mound, low scarps define level subrectangular plots, varying in size from c. 16m x 20m to c. 45m x 70m. Remnants of stone facing or walling are evident in parts, and relict cultivation ridges are visible within the plots. To S of the townland boundary, land reclamation has reduced the earthworks to a few ephemeral undulations, but a block of displaced masonry is incorporated into a N-S field wall at a point c. 20m S of the townland boundary and directly S of the possible castle mound. Much of the visible remains probably relate to the settlement/farmstead shown on the 1838 map; to what extend they may represent the modified remains of an earlier castle settlement is unclear. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA102-045 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough, neglected pasture, densely covered in thistles, located on a low rise on a NW/SE ridge. Raised subcircular area (diam. c. 60-65m) defined by a levelled scarp. The rath appears to have utilised a natural rise. The centre of the interior is elevated and relatively level, grading seamlessly into broadly sloping sides. According to local information a deep ditch/fosse encircled the rath in the past. A gap or slight depression (Wth 2.5-3m), probably the infilled fosse, now intervenes between the levelled scarp and a field fence/townland boundary which skirts the enclosure at N–S, respecting its curve. The enclosure is overlooked immediately to S by a low hill, the NW face of which has been quarried out. The quarry pit abuts but does not directly impinge on the enclosure and is accessed by a track (Wth 2.6m) which skirts the W side of the enclosure, coinciding with the curve of the infilled fosse. At the time of visit, a pool of standing water lay adjacent to the quarry pit, immediately to SW of the rath. The rath is fenced off; it is covered in rough vegetation, dense thistles and occasional heaps of field clearance debris. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 September 2022

• MA112-031001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

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• MA112-031002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

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Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowneden.

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 Carrowneden, 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 Carrowneden.

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

Name

Carrowneden · Ceathrú an Éadain

Area

1,693,870 m² (169.39 ha, 418.56 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Culnacleha, the unit of the census

Census 2022

483 people lived in 184 households in the Culnacleha electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunduff, Carrowmore West, Cartron, Cossallagh, Farnaun, Feamore, Kildarra, Redhill, Tulrohaun

Placenames

Carrowneden 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.