Carrowreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Athleague, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 178.1 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 14,016 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowreagh, from 1,976 m² to 182,399 m² (18.24 ha, 45.07 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 Carrowreagh 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
9 Mar 2026Conditional
Retention Permission for extension as constructed to rear and side of dwelling which differs to extension previously granted planning permission under ref. PD/13/286 and for store which includes domestic garage, general store, utility room, adjacent to original stores to rear of dwelling at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2615
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 Carrowreagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO041-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 44.1m E-W; 41.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2-3.9m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.95-1.2m) with some bushes separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.2-5.6m; Wth of base 2.3m; D 0.45-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 1.4-2m; ext. H 0.1-0.2m), which is incorporated into a field bank NE-SE and removed by quarrying WSW-NW (max. ext. diam. 56.6m N-S). An original entrance was not recognised. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO041-051 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7-3.8m; int. H 0.25-0.4m; ext. H 0.75-0.8m), which is replaced by a field bank and hedge NE-SE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. 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 Carrowreagh.
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_1342 (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 Carrowreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowreagh
- Area
- 1,781,175 m² (178.12 ha, 440.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Athleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athleague East electoral division: 510 people in 184 households; 87% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooneen, Cloonyourish, Coollusty, Kilmore, Knockadangan, Lisnagirra, Lisnasillagh, Toberkeagh
- Placenames
- Carrowreagh 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.