Carrowgowan

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgowan, from 156 m² to 85,959 m² (8.6 ha, 21.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrowgowan 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 May 2026Conditional

  The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660370

• 12 May 2026Conditional

  The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660371

• 7 May 2026N/a

  The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660353

• 7 May 2026N/a

  The Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 To Service An Existing Dormer Type Dwelling House And All Ancillary Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660355

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 Carrowgowan.

Recorded monuments

• MA071-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough to average pasture, located on top of a rise, with a fall of ground to NW, overlooking an expanse of lowlying wet ground. There is undulating/rising ground to E and SE. Oval platform (34m NE−SW; 24. 3m NW−SE) defined by a scarp (H 2m), outside which it is encircled by a fosse (Wth 5m) and external bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m, at SW). The fosse and external bank are well preserved at S−NW, with a number of large stones the external bank incorporates at W. At NW−NE the fosse and external bank are reduced to a terrace (Wth 6.8m) defined on its outer edge by a scarp (H 1.2m). A field fence on a NW−SE axis overlies the fosse and truncates the external bank at NE−E. At E−SE the platform scarp has been adapted to serve as a field fence and the fosse and external bank are not evident. The scarp is lowest (H 0.6m) at NE where it faces the spine of the ridge; this is a likely location for the original entrance. The interior is level. There is a low stony heap (max. dim. 2m; H 0.3m) in the N half. A shallow roughly square depression (2m by 2m) abuts the scarp at W. The perimeter is thickly ringed with blackthorn bushes, which are encroaching on the grassy interior at S and W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021

• MA071-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in the grounds of Carrowgowan House, a 19th-century house now razed to the ground. The ringfort is sited on a N-S ridge, affording good views along a stream valley to W−NW and of the surrounding undulating pastureland at S−NW. Modern houses lie immediately to SE and S of the rath. Raised circular area (34.2m N-S; 33.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank, outside which it is enclosed at NE−WSW by remnants of a fosse (Wth 2.5m at SW) and outer bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m; 1.6m at SW). The inner bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 2.2m at SW) retains a low internal lip at NE−SW but is elsewhere reduced to a scarp. The height of the bank is enhanced at SW−NW by the natural fall of the ridge slope. The outer bank is overlain or truncated by later field boundaries at NE-SSW, but a short section remains well defined at SSW−WSW. The interior is level and grassy, with a few ash trees. The entrance may have been at ENE where the scarp is lowest and there is a gap (2.7m) in the inner bank. A gap (Wth 2.2m) at NNE appears to be recent. A stone-built belvedere, undoubtedly contemporary with Carrowgowan House, stands at the SW edge of the interior. It is oval in plan (int. 1.55m E-W; 2.3m N-S; wall T 0.6m) with three pointed-arch windows and two flat-headed windows, a flat-topped doorway, a small fireplace and dovecote niches in the upper courses of the interior wall face. The windows have brick surrounds. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021

• MA071-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, prominently sited on a ridge overlooking a broad expanse of lowlying, damp pasture. Ground falls away steeply immediately to N−NE of the enclosure. This possible rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); it is shown as an oblong hachured enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1931 edition. It has been levelled. The outline of a roughly circular flat area (c. 26m NE–SW; c. 28m NW–SE) is defined by a slight undulation/cropmark: An encircling band (Wth c. 4m) of yellowish grass, sloping outwards slightly, probably indicates a levelled bank or scarp, and outside that a band of richer, green grass -clearest on the W arc -is suggestive of an external fosse. The E edge of the enclosure has been dug away and a field fence on a NNE−SSW axis lies immediately to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021

• MA071-075 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, located on a low SE-facing slope overlooking an expanse of lowlying damp pasture. A circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 25m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. When inspected in 1998, an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn (diam. 20-30m) covers this location and prevented examination. A field boundary on a roughly NW−SE axis crosses the location. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrowgowan, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowgowan · Ceathrú an Ghabhann

Area

678,494 m² (67.85 ha, 167.66 acres)

Civil parish

Bohola, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Strade, the unit of the census

Census 2022

647 people lived in 239 households in the Strade electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohola, Carroward, Carrowcastle, Lisgormin, Rathrowan

Placenames

Carrowgowan 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.