Carrowbehy

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbehy, from 42 m² to 532,380 m² (53.24 ha, 131.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Carrowbehy 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  Permission for the construction of a safe deck board walk on Carrowbehy/Caher raised bog and for which a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660453

• 12 Nov 2025N/a

  Permission for the construction of a board walk on Carrowbehy/Caher raised bog and for which a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560535

• 31 Oct 2025N/a

  Permission for the construction of a board walk on Carrowbehy /Caher raised bog at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560515

• 26 Nov 2020Conditional

  for construction of a new car park, children's playground and carry out all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20502

• 17 Nov 2020N/a

  for construction of a new car park, children's playground and carry out all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20483

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  to upgrade an existing entrance (Entrance No. 1) by the construction of a new bell-mouth entrance on to public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation ready for harvesting and all associated ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19342

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  to upgrade an existing entrance (Entrance No. 2) by the construction of a new bell-mouth entrance on to public road to facilitate access to existing forestry plantation ready for harvesting and all associated ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19343

• 19 Jun 2019N/a

  to upgrade 2 No. existing entrances by the construction of a new bell mouth entrance on to public road at each location to facilitate access to existing forestry plantations ready for harvesting and all associated ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19321

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog SAC 000597
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog 000597

Recorded monuments

• RO019-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the SE-facing crest of a low hill. It is not visible at ground level, and the site is now occupied by a grass-covered quarry. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 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 Carrowbehy.

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.

• Carrowbehy, Castlerea10 sales

Name

Carrowbehy · Ceathrú Bheithí

Area

3,251,675 m² (325.17 ha, 803.51 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Artagh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

463 people lived in 175 households in the Artagh South electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher, Cloonagh, Clooncah, Clooncan, Derrylahan, Drummad, Errit, Gortaganny

Placenames

Carrowbehy 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.