Garrow

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrow, from 85 m² to 189,564 m² (18.96 ha, 46.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Garrow 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.

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  Permission for the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460382

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for the following: 1. Permission to Retain removal of chimneys and change of roof finish from concrete tiles to blue/black slates. 2. Permission to connect to existing septic tank system, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460206

• 26 Apr 2024N/a

  Permission to 1. Retain removal of chimneys, 2. Retain the change roof finish from concrete tiles to blue/black slates, 3. To connect to existing septic tank system, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460194

• 26 Jan 2024N/a

  Planning permission for: 1. retain removal of chimneys, 2. planning permission to change roof finish from concrete tiles to blue/black slates, 3. to connect to existing septic tank system, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460032

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain and Permission to complete double height porch to front of existing dwelling house and associated site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21537

• 26 Aug 2021Conditional

  permission for the construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21488

• 6 Aug 2021N/a

  to retain and complete double height porch to front of existing dwelling house and associated site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21451

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, connection to services, access onto the public road and associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20308

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 Garrow.

Recorded monuments

• RO005-003 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Traditionally built by the Red Earl, who may be Red Hugh O'Donnell (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 105) or Ulick Burke, the Red Earl of Ulster c. 1300, it was further consolidated by Manus O'Donnell in 1540 and Owen Roe O'Neill in 1648 (O'Rorke, 1890, vol. 2, 299-301). It runs N-S through rough pasture and blanket bog across the Curlew Mountains in a valley called the Yellow Pass connecting Boyle with Co. Sligo (L c. 3km), and the battle of the Curlews (RO006-002001-) in 1599 was fought along part of its length. Its N end in Co. Sligo is in a coniferous forest, but it can be traced (L c. 1km) in Co. Roscommon across bogland as a depression (Wth 6-9m; D c. 0.2-1m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-002001 Monumental structure
  Description

  Erected by Lord Lorton in the late 18th century at the supposed spot where Sir Conyers Clifford was slain during the battle of the Curlews (RO006-002002-) in 1599. On the steep S-facing slope of the Curlew Mountains. Described as a limestone octogon it was reduced in height to c. 1m by the 1830s accroding to J. O'Donovan (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 105-6). It is now an overgrown cairn (diam. of base c. 3.5m; diam. of top 1.5m; H 0.9m). The monument is erroneously described as one to a Capt. Alexander Weir, killed in a skirmish with Sarsfield's troops in 1690 (D'alton 1845, 83-4). A sculpture representing a Gaelic Chief has been erected by the NRA to commemorate the Battle of 1599 in a carpark in Doon townland at IG (181114, 307160) or ITM (581069, 807171). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO006-002002 Battlefield
  Description

  The E-W Curlew Mountains form a boundary between Sligo and Moylurg with a single pass called the Yellow Pass where there is a road (RO006-001----) between the mountains to the W and Sheegorey Hill to the E The mountains marked the southern boundary of O'Donnell influence in the later middle ages. There were many battles in the Yellow Pass, amongst the more famous being one in 1497 when Tadhg MacDermot, King of Moylurg (1497-9), defeated Conor O'Donnell, killed about 800 of his followers and captured the Cathach, a copy of the Psalms written by St Columcille, although the Cathach was returned to the O'Donnells two years later (MacDermot 1996, 125-6). A battle took place in 1599 when an English force under Sir Conyers Clifford, Governor of Connaught, attempted a rapid march from Athlone to Sligo to relieve O'Conor Sligo who was besieged in Collooney by Red Hugh O'Donnell. Although O'Donnell had a large force in the vicinity, the Irish troops in the pass are not readily identified. The vanguard of Clifford's force were enticed into a bog and when they broke ranks and retreated they caused havoc in the rearguard when Brian O'Rourke arrived from E of Sheegory Hill. Over 200 of Clifford's force died, including Clifford himself, and his headless body was buried at Triinity Abbey (RO006-036001-). (Mattimoe 1986, 1996) Situated in pasture on the steep S-facing slopes of the Curlew mountains, the area of the battle is near the ancient roadway (RO006-001----). A monument (RO006-002001-) was erected in the late 18th century to Sir Conyers Clifford. Described as an limestone octogon it was reduced in height to c. 1m by the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, 105-6), and it is now an overgrown cairn (diam. of base c. 3.5m; diam. of top 1.5m; H 0.9m). The monument is erroneously described as one to a Capt. Alexander Weir, killed in a skirmish with Sarsfield's troops in 1690 (D'Alton 1845, 83-4). 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 Garrow.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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_1233 (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.

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

Name

Garrow · Gearradh

Area

2,795,952 m² (279.6 ha, 690.89 acres)

Civil parish

Boyle, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Boyle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boyle Rural electoral division: 1,775 people in 640 households; 74% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy (Co. Sligo), Cartron (Co. Sligo), Cornameelta, Deerpark, Evikeens, Limnagh (Co. Sligo), Sheegorey, Spa

Placenames

Garrow 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.