Carrowcuill
Carrowcuill is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 74 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 7,395 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcuill, from 4 m² to 140,579 m² (14.06 ha, 34.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrowcuill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Carrowcuill 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowcuill.
Recorded monuments
- RO017-069 Earthwork
Description
Marked only on the 1897 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 40m), and situated on a level, low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
- The Old Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1828, on a rectangular plan with slightly projecting entrance bay; three-storey pedimented central bay to rear. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and cut stone chimneystacks. Random coursed limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins and string course to ground floor. Ashlar to entrance. Timber sash windows with block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills. Timber panelled door with sidelights. Limestone steps span basement and access door. Timber battened door to basement. Outbuildings to west open into yard bound by random rubble wall with cut stone gate piers. Random rubble wall to rear of house. Set in mature grounds accessed up an avenue. Decorative cast-iron entrance gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowcuill, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowcuill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowcuill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowcuill
- Area
- 739,849 m² (73.98 ha, 182.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 184 people lived in 69 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmacroan, Clogher, Dangan (King), Kilmore, Rathnarovanagh, Tully
- Placenames
- Carrowcuill 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.