Carrowmore
Townland in the civil parish of Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 236.4 ha
- 584 acres
- Land parcels
- 188
- registered freehold, median 4,927 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
188 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 190 m² to 92,086 m² (9.21 ha, 22.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrowmore 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
6 Feb 2026Conditional
Retention Permission and Permission for (i) Retention of the re-roofing and alterations to the front façade of the existing dwelling house, (ii) Permission for a new Wastewater Treatment System to replace the existing septic tank and (iii) Permission for extensions and alterations to the existing rear shed to provide a ‘Granny Flat’ to the rear of the site of the existing dwelling house with connection to the new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660045
23 Jan 2026N/a
Permission for (i) Retention of the re-roofing and alterations to the front façade of the existing dwelling house, (ii) Permission for a new Wastewater Treatment System to replace the existing septic tank and (iii)Permission for extensions and alterations to the existing rear shed to provide a ‘Granny Flat’ to the rear of the site of the existing dwelling house with connection to the new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660030
6 May 2025N/a
Planning permission for the construction of a single storey detached modular type 'Granny Flat' to the rear of the site of an existing dwelling house with connection to existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560205
20 Oct 2020Conditional
for retention of site layout, domestic garage and dwelling house to include unauthorised elements which differ to that granted planning permission under PD/01/863 at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20433
1 Oct 2020N/a
for retention of site layout, domestic garage and dwelling house to include unauthorised elements which differ to that granted planning permission under PD/01/863 at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20397
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
- RO040-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the W edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 45.7m NW-SE; 43m NE-SW) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6-10.7m; Wth of base 2.4-3.4m; int. D 1.6-1.8m; ext. D 0.4-1.1m) E-S-WNW and at N with a causeway (Wth 2.8m) at SW. The monument is slightly truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NE and does not survive beyond it. See the attached aerial image taken from the W 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 Carrowmore.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1427 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrowmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmore
- Area
- 2,364,276 m² (236.43 ha, 584.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscommon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roscommon Rural electoral division: 5,513 people in 1,881 households; 68% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowroe, Cloonconra, Clooncraff, Creevyquin, Killeenboy, Lisbride, Newtown
- Placenames
- Carrowmore 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.