Carrowscoltia

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowscoltia, from 555 m² to 121,704 m² (12.17 ha, 30.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Carrowscoltia 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the replacement and relocation of the aggregate processing plant to a new location within the quarry void, including all associated site works, within an application area of 2.3 hectares, and entirely within the existing permitted quarry area (Plan File Ref. No. P04/1843).

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560088

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: temporary use of an additional mobile crushing and screening plant within the quarry void at Carrowscoltia Quarry. It will be used for processing quarried materials during an interim period while permission is sought for the permanent relocation of the fixed plant within the quarry void

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24542

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  Section 5: The proposed development involves the temporary use of a mobile crushing and screening plant within the quarry void at Carrowscoltia Quarry, Aghamore. This plant will replace the existing fixed crushing plant, which is located at original ground level and has been a source of noise and dust complaints from nearby residents.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24403

• 16 Nov 2023N/a

  Continued use of an existing limestone quarry with all associated operations including; controlled blasting, crushing, grading and transport of materials from the site and all ancillary site works and services over circa 5.135 hectares or thereabouts. A ten-year permission is requested to extract reserves from circa 0.45 hectares within the existing quarry

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360478

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 Carrowscoltia.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowscoltia.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowscoltia, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowscoltia · An Cheathrú Scoilte

Area

591,022 m² (59.1 ha, 146.04 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

650 people lived in 241 households in the Aghamore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arderry, Ballyhine, Ballynacloy, Carrowbaun, Scardaun

Placenames

Carrowscoltia 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.