Carrownure Upper
Carrownure Upper is a townland in the civil parish of St. Johns, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú an Iúir Uachtarach.
- Area
- 68.4 ha
- 169 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 4,275 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownure Upper, from 1,978 m² to 338,017 m² (33.8 ha, 83.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrownure Upper 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
1 Jun 2021Conditional
permission for the construction of a divided workshop unit consisting of workshop for the design & fabrication of prototype farm machinery and general metal fabrication, site fencing, lighting, wastewater treatment system & associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21294
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrownure Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrownure Upper.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrownure Upper, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrownure Upper.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrownure Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrownure Upper · Ceathrú an Iúir Uachtarach
- Area
- 683,682 m² (68.37 ha, 168.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johns, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Lecarrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 124 households in the Lecarrow electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownure Lower, Carrowphadeen
- Placenames
- Carrownure Upper 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.