Carrowmore
Townland in the civil parish of Killummod, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 185 ha
- 457 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 11,844 m² (1.18 ha, 2.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 9 m² to 166,399 m² (16.64 ha, 41.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
14 Apr 2026Conditional
Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660161
11 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for the following: the construction of (i) a single storey, 5 Classroom SEN extension to the north-east gable of the existing school block, along with, (ii) an extension to classroom 3 of the existing school block and (iii) relocation of 2 No. existing pre-fabricated SET classroom units and a single prefabricated toilet block to be removed once part (i) & (ii) of above are completed, together with connections to services and all associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560164
31 Mar 2022Conditional
Permission to demolish detached domestic garage, construct porch to front elevation & extension to gable & rear of existing bungalow, connect & upgrade the domestic waste water treatment system, amend site boundaries & site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22164
25 Jun 2021N/a
permission to demolish detached domestic garage, construct porch to front elevation and extension to gable & rear of existing bungalow, connection to existing services, and site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21353
26 May 2021N/a
permission to demolish detached domestic garage, construct porch to front elevation and extension to gable and rear of existing bungalow, connection to existing services and site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21279
11 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission for the following: 1. The demolition and reduction in height of the existing lightwell towers on the existing school and the provision of a new mono pitch roof with rooflights over the altered lightwells; 2. The provision of a mainstream classroom with en-suite toilets. PERMISSION to RETAIN and complete the following: a) Existing extension currently under construction consisting of classroom, Principal's room, wheelchair accessible unisex WC, admin. room and connecting corridor including all material alterations; b) Material alterations and conversion of the partially enclosed area of existing school to proposed staff room on the south eastern corner of the building; c) The conversion of existing staff room to assisted learning room; d) The 2 No. existing prefabricated SET classroom buildings onsite and associated ancillary works; e) The prefabricated toilet block and associated ancillary works associated with Covid 19 compliance requirements; f) The oil tank enclosure including material alterations; g) The site layout and car park at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20353
15 Jan 2020Conditional
for (a) Demolition of existing sheds, remodelling of existing house and construction of extension to side & rear of existing dwelling house (b) to retain proprietary wastewater treatment system and construct new polishing filter with associated site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 208
8 Jan 2020N/a
for (a) Demolition of existing sheds, remodelling of existing house and construction of extension to side & rear of existing dwelling house (b) to retain proprietary wastewater treatment system and construct new polishing filter with associated site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 204
20 Jun 2018Conditional
for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, entrance onto the public road and associated site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18298
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 Carrowmore.
Recorded monuments
- RO010-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.5m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.4m at E to 1m at S; ext. H 2-2.2m) N-S-NW which is reused as a road bank NE-SE and is reduced to a scarp (H 1.9m) topped by a later stone spread (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) NW-N. A fosse (Wth of top 5-5.5m; D 0.7-1.4m) separates it from an outer bank (Wth 3-4.2m; ext. H 1.1m at S to 1.35m at N) SE-W-NE. There is a causeway (Wth 4.8m) but no visible entrance at SE, and a N-S roadway occupies the fosse and outer bank NE-SE. 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowmore.
- 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
- Carrowmore, Croghan6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmore
- Area
- 1,850,340 m² (185.03 ha, 457.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killummod, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Killummod, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killummod electoral division: 129 people in 54 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Assaun, Boherroe, Cartron, Castletown, Kilcolagh, Killappoge, Knockroe
- 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.