Carrowmore

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 349 m² to 344,776 m² (34.48 ha, 85.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

• 1 Mar 2019Conditional

  to construct a proposed dwelling house, garage, septic tank system and percolation area, complete with all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1996

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 Carrowmore.

Recorded monuments

• RO006-136 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight S-facing slope. Eroded circular grass-covered area (diam. 12-12.4m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-138 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.5m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.25m at N to 0.75m at S; ext. H 0.55m at N to 1.1m at S) with intermittently visible inner and outer facing-stones N-E-SW, and a scarp down to the interior (H 0.25m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 25m), and situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 26-27m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.1-0.2m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-146 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise at the bottom of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.5m E-W; 29m, N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 2.4m at E to 4.65m at S; int. H 0.15-0.45m; ext. H 0.9m at E to 1.4m at S), which has internal facing stones NW-NE, and an outer berm (Wth 8.8-10.3m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1-0.3m) S-E. There is no recognisable entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-147001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On top of a low E-W ridge on the S-facing slope of a ridge. Described as a flat-topped mound (diam. of top 6.7m N-S; 6.2m E-W) defined by a fosse. The barrow was eccentrically placed within an enclosure (diam. 30m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Gannon 1972). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered mound (diam. of base 5.5m; H 0.9m) with a flat top (diam. 2.4m), located in the NE quadrant of a subcircular grass-covered enclosure (RO006-147002-) (dims 30.5m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.7m), which has an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-147002 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of a low E-W ridge on the S-facing slope of a ridge. Described as a flat-topped barrow (RO006-147001-) eccentrically placed within an enclosure defined by an earthen bank (diam. 30m E-W; 29m N-S) (Gannon 1972). The barrow is now visible as a circular grass-covered mound located in the NE quadrant of a subcircular grass-covered enclosure (dims 30.5m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.7m), which has a fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-203 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SE-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.5m at N to 6.2m at W; int. H 0.1m at S to 0.5m at N; ext. H 0.1m at N to 0.6m at E and S) N-S-W, and a scarp down to the interior (H 0.2-0.7m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-218 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (24-3-2017) as an oval enclosure (max. diams. c. 45m ENE-WSW; c. 32m NNW-SSE) defined by a low bank (est. Wth. c. 2-5m). See attached image: RO006-218----_01 Google Earth aerial image, 24-3-2017. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 1 February 2023

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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.

No address of the register names Carrowmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Carrowmore

Area

1,589,731 m² (158.97 ha, 392.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Rockingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockingham electoral division: 339 people in 134 households; 88% of households own their home; 14% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fawnanierin, Pollower, Reycroftspark, Rusheen, Tullyboy, Tullyvohaun

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.