Carrowreagh

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowreagh, from 1,271 m² to 110,644 m² (11.06 ha, 27.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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 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.

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  permission to widen existing forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20291

• 16 Jan 2020Conditional

  for a new forest road entrance, new forest road and erection of a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2010

• 24 May 2018N/a

  Permission to construct extension and alterations to existing bungalow house and carryout all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18249

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a new forest access road entrance at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18128

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 Carrowreagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO021-011 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Marked as a functioning road on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, its continuation to the E functions as laneway running N-S today and its W continuation after a gap of c. 350m was a functioning road on the 1837 ed. Running WNW-ESE across a gentle N-facing slope (L c. 1.5 km), and removed over much of its length, but preserved at the E and W ends. A grass-covered road (Wth 10m at E to 15.5m at W) bordered by silted drains (Wth of top 2-3m; D 0.1-0.3m) and earthen banks (Wth 2.8-3.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.7m), or banks and external drains. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-016 Well
  Description

  Marked similarly on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope. A natural spring surrounded by a concrete wall (H 1.2m) and the source of a stream which runs off to the NW. It is not known locally as a holy well, and there is no evidence of or record of veneration. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.2m E-W; 32.2m N-S), which remains unplanted within a coniferous forest, defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 2.5; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m; at W: Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) which is reduced to a slight scarp (H c. 0.6m) W-N, and a fosse visible as a band of rushes (Wth 3-4m) SE-W. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter is truncated by a NW-SE field bank at NW. The fosse is clipped by a NE-SW field wall at SE and a NW-SE field wall at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-032 Moated site
  Description

  On a broad E-W ridge or shelf. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 50m E-W; 29.3m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3-3.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1-1.4m) at N and S with fosses or moats (Wth of top 4.3m at S to 6m at N; Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.1-0.4m) at every side. An original entrance is not identified. It is surrounded by field banks at W and N. See the attached aerial image taken from the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-034 Moated site
  Description

  On a broad E-W ridge or shelf. Rectangular grass and rush-covered area (dims 38m NW-SE; 31.7m NE-SW) defined by fosses or moats (Wth 3-4m; D 0.1-0.2m) on all sides except the SW where there is an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m) with internal and external drains. Moated site (RO021-035----) is c. 80m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-035 Moated site
  Description

  On a broad E-W ridge or shelf. Rectangular grass and rush-covered area (dims 44m WNW-ESE; 31.8m NNE-SSW) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.2m) and outer flat-bottomed moats (Wth of top 6-7m; Wth of base 2.6-4m; max. D 0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.7m) and causeway (Wth 6m) at the centre of the E side. Moated site (RO021-034----) is c. 80m to the WSW. See the attached aerial image taken from the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowreagh.

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 Carrowreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Carrowreagh · An Cheathrú Riabhach

Area

2,719,340 m² (271.93 ha, 671.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcorkey, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Bellanagare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellanagare electoral division: 693 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconboy, Garrynphort, Peak, Rathkineely, Rathnallog, Tullaghan

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.