Lecarrow

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 394 m² to 248,113 m² (24.81 ha, 61.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

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.

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN, CHANGE OF GARAGE DESIGN, AND CHANGE OF SITE LAYOUT FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED FULL PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER P20/360 ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21867

• 20 May 2021N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN, CHANGE OF GARAGE DESIGN AND CHANGE OF SITE LAYOUT FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED FULL PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 20/360 ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21518

• 8 Jun 2020Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20360

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 Lecarrow.

Recorded monuments

• MA119-032 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In lowlying, gently undulating terrain, located on a low hillock/rise, 5m S of an E−W canalised stream/drain. Corraun Lough is half a kilometre to S. There are excellent views N−SE; elsewhere views are restricted by trees. Castleville farm is located c. 50m to SE, featuring vernacular buildings arranged around a walled courtyard. A rectangular building named ‘Castle in Ruins’ is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; only the NE end of the building is shown on the 1915 edition. The castle, which is in a ruinous state, stands on a subrectangular mound/platform, probably a modified natural rise. The remains are rectangular in plan (10.8m NE−SW; 8.9m NW−SE), but the SW angle of the building is gone. The internal NW−SE dimension of the building is 4.7m. The surviving walls stand to a height of 2-3m; the wall thickness appears to have been at least 2m. The external wall face is poorly preserved, but the inner wall face is largely intact, revealing roughly coursed masonry of rough-hewn limestone blocks. The NW wall (L c. 10.8m) is best preserved, topped with ivy. Midway along its length is a break, on the N side of which is fragment of a window reveal. At its SW end, the wall expands in a block of masonry (2.7m NW−SE; 3.5m NE−SW), projecting outwards externally by c. 0.4m beyond the NE−SW line of the wall, and also projecting to SW. This portion of wall leans to NW and the projection to SW is breaking away; it is topped by a dense ivy bush. The NE wall has collapsed, except for the angles at either end. The gap in the middle (Wth c. 1.7m) has been roughly infilled with modern walling to height of c. 0.6m. There is a mural stone stairs in the SE angle, with at least three steps rising to SE. It is possible, therefore, that the break in the middle of the NE wall may have been the location of a doorway with the mural stairs opening off it. There is much loose rubble throughout, especially adjacent to the break in the NE wall, the stairs and at the break in the NW wall. The flat top (18-19m NE−SW; 12-14m) of the mound/platform (c. 30m NE−SW; c. 35m NW−SE; H c. 2-3m) on which the castle stands is barely wider than the castle on the NW−SE axis but extends c. 3.5m beyond the NE wall of the castle and 4-5m beyond the SW end. The NE and SW slopes of the platform are relatively steep (H 2.5-3m). The NW side has a more gradual slope, terracing down towards the bank of the stream, dropping c. 2m in height. The SW slope is also more gradual, but a portion (10m NE−SW; 7.5m NW−SE) of it has been quarried out to within a 2m of the castle –the quarry pit now partly filled with rubble. Sycamore trees grow on the mound at the N and S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 August 2023

• MA119-033 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a low elevation. There is a canalised stream/drain 200m to W, with a castle (MA119-032---) on its E bank. Castleville farm is c. 50m to W. There is a lake, Corraun Lough, half a kilometre to SSW. This enclosure has been levelled, but a slightly raised oval area (c. 35m N−S; c. 30m E−W) defined by the remains of a levelled scarp can still be discerned. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 August 2023

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1912–1914 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey direct entry farmhouse, extant 1914[?], originally three-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan[?]. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping, lichen-covered coping to gables, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered battered wall to front (south-east) elevation; roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with concrete or cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings originally central[?] with concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors having overlights. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with rendered octagonal piers to perimeter having polygonal capping.

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 Lecarrow, 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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_471 (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.

No address of the register names Lecarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú

Area

1,028,772 m² (102.88 ha, 254.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmore, Cloonanaff, Davros, Frenchgrove, Roos

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.