Carha

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carha, from 715 m² to 302,991 m² (30.3 ha, 74.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Carha 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  We, Joe Grogan and Aisling Keenan, intend to apply to Sligo County Council for Planning Permission for the following works at Carha Td, Coolaney, Co Sligo 1. Renovation of existing derelict cottage. 2. Construction of a new extension to the west side and north side of the existing cottage. 3. Construction of a new home office/studio to replace the existing derelict outbuilding. 4. Construction of a domestic garage to north-east of the house. 5. Upgrade of existing access road to serve proposed development. 6. Provision of a new effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560338

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006

Recorded monuments

• SL025-054001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a rise. A raised circular area (33m NNE-SSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 7.5m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.9m) has traces of possible internal stone revetment. A small section of the external slope of the bank at NNW has been quarried away. There is an entrance (Wth 2.6m) which is partially stone-faced at SE with a causeway across fosse. The wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4m; D 1.4m) is evident SSW-SSE. There is a possible souterrain (SL025-054002-) in the NW quadrant of the interior and a scarp (H 0.5m) in the SE quadrant, extending c. 10m to WSW from the bank and terminating at an arc of sod-covered stones (c. 3.7m E-W). A low rise (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.45m) is evident outside the fosse at SE may be the remains of an outer bank though there is no other evidence of such. Hawthorn bushes grow on the external slope of the bank, otherwise the rath is grass-covered. There is a quarry pit c. 20m to S with an adjacent roughly circular raised area (diam. 7.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.7m) defined by an irregular earthen bank lined internally with slabs. According to local information, this is the remains of a clay kiln. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL025-054002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a rath (SL025-054001-), c. 4m inside the bank. According to local information, a low sod-covered rise and an adjacent depression mark the blocked-up entrance to a souterrain. Stones protrude from the surface of the rise and the depression. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Carha Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-span road-over-river stone bridge, built c. 1800. Roughly-squared uncoursed rubble walling. Elliptical-headed arches, tooled ashlar limestone voussoirs with rounded corners, triangular insitu concrete cutwaters with pyramid caps, rubble stone parapets rebuilt c. 1960, insitu concrete bullnose coping. Macadamed carriageway, narrow grass verges. Crosses north-south over Owenbo River.

• Bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-span road-over-river stone bridge, built c. 1800. Roughly-squared uncoursed rubble walling. Round-headed arches, tooled ashlar limestone voussoirs, rubble stone parapets rebuilt c. 1990, as-found stone coping. Macadamed carriageway, concrete footpaths. Crosses north-south over stream, in woodland setting.

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 20 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

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

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 Carha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Carha · An Cartha

Area

4,287,873 m² (428.79 ha, 1,059.56 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Carrownaskeagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmurray, Carrownabanny, Carrownaskeagh, Carrownloughan, Tawnatrohaun

Placenames

Carha 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.