Carrowgobbadagh

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowgobbadagh, from 137 m² to 195,729 m² (19.57 ha, 48.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrowgobbadagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowgobbadagh 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowgobbadagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-057053 Well
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan. A natural spring (diam. c. 6m) surrounded by field stones, which is the origin of a stream that runs off to the E. Rath (RO022-057055-) is c. 30m to the W, and the well is at the E end of road (RO022-057021-). There is no evidence of veneration, but the site of Toberkeagh (RO022-057069-) is 100m to the SW. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) sloping down to the E (H of slope c. 3m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-2.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.5m) S-NW, and a slight scarp (H 0.1m) E-S. It is truncated by the S bank of road (RO022-057021-) at N. There is a house platform (RO022-057072-) (dims c. 8m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.1m at W to 0.7m at E) just N of the centre. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The well (RO022-057053-) is c. 30m to the NE. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low E-W ridge at the E foot of Rathcroghan ridge. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims c. 26m WNW-ESE; 22m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m at NNE to 1.7m at SSW) SSE-W-NE, which merges into the slope elsewhere. There is a slight bank (int. H 0.1m) on the perimeter W-N, but there is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057058 Field system
  Description

  On a level landscape at the E foot of Rathcroghan plateau and part of the unified field sytem of Rathcroghan. Earthen banks defining large rectangular fields (SMR file 1987) were recorded in the vicinity of rath (RO022-057057-). The area was also overlaid with pits (RO022-057059-). The field banks and pits are no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057059 Pitfield
  Description

  On a level landscape at the E foot of Rathcroghan ridge. An area of c. 15 ha (c. 37 acres) had pits arranged in E-W lines parallel with the road (RO022-057060-) (ACAP: V206/22, 21) which are no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057060 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  On a level landscape at the E foot of the Rathcroghan plateau. Described in 1987 as a fragment of a roadway (L c. 500m) defined by earthen banks (SMR file) at the N end of field system (RO022-057058-) and within pitfield (RO022-057059-). At its W end it may have turned S (L c. 160m) to join the E end of road (RO022-057021-) at Tober Caoch (RO022-057053-), but there is no evidence of this. At its E end it ran past a farmhouse in Cammoge (ACAP: V206/ 22, 21) (L c. 1km), connecting with its old entrance lane and is continued by the lane runniing past raths (RO022-57056-; RO022-079----). It is no longer visible at ground level in pasture, except for a section (L c. 300m) in Carrowgobbadagh. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057069 Well
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering on both as Toberkeagh. It is situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. There is no trace of a well here, and it is thought to be a mistaken location of the well (RO022-057053-) which is c. 100m to the NE. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-057072 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Rathcroghan, and at the centre of rath (RO022-057055-). This is a house platform (dims c. 8m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.1m at W to 0.7m at E) with some stones visible. The well (RO022-057053-) is c. 30m to the E. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 294. 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 Carrowgobbadagh.

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 Carrowgobbadagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Carrowgobbadagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Carrowgobbadagh

Area

382,180 m² (38.22 ha, 94.44 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cammoge, Carrowntoosan, Glenballythomas, Kilnanooan, Knockavurrea, Toberrory

Placenames

Carrowgobbadagh 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.