Carrowduff Upper
Carrowduff Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Cloonygormican, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Dhubh Uachtarach.
- Area
- 79 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 60,614 m² (6.06 ha, 14.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowduff Upper, from 3,535 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres) to 143,376 m² (14.34 ha, 35.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Carrowduff Upper 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
18 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for development of: a) construction of a single-storey extension to the front and left-hand side of the existing derelict dwelling, including replacement of the existing roof; b) installation of a new wastewater treatment system to EPA CoP 2021, c/w tertiary treatment system on infiltration bed, and decommission of the existing septic tank; and c) modification of the existing site entrance, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660483
25 Nov 2025Refused
Permission for the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling and construction of a new replacement dwelling & domestic garage, together with an upgrade of the existing septic tank system to a proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560554
23 Aug 2023Conditional
Planning Permission for renovation of existing house and the construction of an extension, installation of tertiary treatment system & infiltration/treatment area plus all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360074
30 Mar 2023Conditional
Permission for development consisting of (1) demolition of an existing dry bedded shed, (2) construction of a new milking parlour, dairy, plant room, roofed handling facility, slatted cubicle shed and underground slurry storage tanks all adjoining existing buildings along with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23103
3 Mar 2023N/a
Planning Permission for development consisting of demolition of existing dry bedded shed & construction of new milking parlor, dairy, plant room, roofed handling facility, slatted cubicle sheds and underground slurry storage tanks along with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2364
22 Mar 2018Conditional
For construction of a sheep shed with underground slurry storage tank, together with all its associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18131
18 Aug 2017Conditional
Permission for a change in design of a new five bay sheep shed and a silage base with walls, together with all its associated site works previously granted under planning register reference PD/16/311 at:
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17356
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rathnalulleagh Turlough 000613
Recorded monuments
- RO034-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the top of the gentle SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge, towards the NW end. Irregularly subcircular grass and reed-covered area (dims 57.5m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-3.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) separated by a berm (Wth 1.4m) from a fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.35m) W-NNE. The perimeter has been quarried NNE-SSE and reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-0.7m) S-W. There is no identifiable original entrance but there is a slight outer bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.2m) N-NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO035-002 Quarry
Description
This is a quarry, which is marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. 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 Carrowduff Upper.
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
- 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).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowduff Upper.
- 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 Carrowduff Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowduff Upper · An Cheathrú Dhubh Uachtarach
- Area
- 789,535 m² (78.95 ha, 195.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloonygormican, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Carrowduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 212 people lived in 80 households in the Carrowduff electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardlagheen More or Highlake, Ballinturly, Carrowduff Lower, Peak
- Placenames
- Carrowduff Upper 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.