Carrownagashel
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 72.1 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,356 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownagashel, from 13 m² to 116,845 m² (11.68 ha, 28.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Carrownagashel 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
12 Jun 2026Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of (1) demolition of existing side attached garage, (2) extension to front, sides & rear of dwelling, (3) internal alterations throughout dwelling, (4) loft conversion, (5) new attached garage & store, (6) alterations to roadside wall and (7) all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660287
6 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct new waste water treatment system and percolation area at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660043
17 Jul 2025Refused
Permission for: (1) demolition of existing side attached garage, (2) extension to front, sides & rear of dwelling, (3) internal alterations throughout dwelling, (4) loft conversion (5) new attached garage & store, (6) alterations to roadside wall and (7) all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560350
8 Jul 2025N/a
Permission for development consisting of: (1) demolition of existing side attached garage, (2) extension to front, sides and rear of dwelling, (3) internal alterations throughout dwelling, (4) loft conversion (5) new attached garage & store, (6) alterations to roadside wall and (7) all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560332
30 May 2025N/a
Permission to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and construct new waste water treatment system and percolation area at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560265
8 Oct 2024N/a
Permission for development consisting of: (1) demolition of existing side attached garage, (2) extension to front, sides & rear of dwelling, (3) internal alterations throughout dwelling, (4) loft conversion, (5) new attached garage & store, (6) alterations to roadside wall and (7) all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460477
20 Sept 2024N/a
The development will consist of: (1) demolition of existing side attached garage, (2) extension to front, sides & rear of dwelling, (3) internal alterations throughout dwelling, (4) loft conversion, (5) new attached garage & store, (6) alterations to roadside wall and (7) all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460445
1 Aug 2018Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a three bay slatted shed to contain one no. cattle crush, a feed passage and straw bedded lying areas, together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18386
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 Carrownagashel.
Recorded monuments
- RO006-141001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 31m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 6.6-8m; int. H 0.7-1m; ext. H 1.4m) with intermittently visible facing-stones (original Wth 1.9-2m). The entrance (Wth 2m) is at ENE, and there is a rectangular house-site (RO006-141002-) (int. dims 8m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW) defined by lines of large stones inside the perimeter at NW. The site is bisected by a disused E-W field wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO006-141002 House - indeterminate date
Description
On a rise towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope. Rectangular area (int. dims 8m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW) defined by lines of large stones is inside the perimeter of cashel (RO006-141001-) at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO006-143 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a low rise towards the bottom of a N-facing slope in an area of rock-outcrop. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28.5m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8m at E to 5.5m at W; int. H 0.05m at E to 0.3m at W; ext. H. 0.2-0.45m). There is no visible entrance, but externally there is a berm (Wth 2-3m) defined by a scarp (H 0.25-0.6m) E-SSW. 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 Carrownagashel.
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 moderately high, 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 Carrownagashel.
- 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 Carrownagashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrownagashel
- Area
- 720,642 m² (72.06 ha, 178.07 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
- Ardcarn, Grevisk, Rathdiveen, Reycroftspark, Rockingham Demesne, Rusheen
- Placenames
- Carrownagashel 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.