Keelcurragh or Carrowreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgefin, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 20.9 ha
- 52 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 32,830 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keelcurragh or Carrowreagh, from 31,271 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres) to 41,647 m² (4.16 ha, 10.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Keelcurragh or 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
30 Mar 2026N/a
Permission for proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660136
4 Apr 2025Refused
Permission to construct a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560147
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 Keelcurragh or Carrowreagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO036-016 Enclosure
Description
Depicted as a circular enclosure with a broad bank (int. diam. c. 25m; ext. diam. c. 55m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. It is not visiible at ground level in pasture, apart from the curve of a field bank and townland boundary with Ballinwully NW-NE (C 48m). An earthen fort at Ballinwilly, which may have been this site, was lost by Robert Nugent to Irish rebels before 1596 (Cronin 1980, 118). 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 Keelcurragh or 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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1459 (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 Keelcurragh or Carrowreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Keelcurragh or Carrowreagh
- Area
- 209,384 m² (20.94 ha, 51.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgefin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Drumdaff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumdaff electoral division: 481 people in 186 households; 89% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Ballincurry, Ballinwully, Kilnalosset
- Placenames
- Keelcurragh or 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.