Carncash
Townland in the civil parish of Calry, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Carn Chais
- Area
- 80.6 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 4,472 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carncash, from 68 m² to 191,706 m² (19.17 ha, 47.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jul 2020Conditional
development consisting of the retention of a sunroom extension to south west elevation of existing house
Retention · Sligo County Council, 20218
14 Apr 2020Conditional
development consisting of permission for retention of the following; Permission to retain alterations to floor plan and elevations of dwelling house as constructed which differs from those permitted under PL 12002 and associated works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 20115
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 Carncash.
Recorded monuments
- SL008-152 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating rocky pasture. A steep WSW-ENE orientated N-facing natural scarp abuts the edge of the site at N. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 5.3m; int. H 1.2m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. From NW-NNE the bank has been removed by rock quarry (now disused) that has been cut into the N facing natural slope that abuts the N side of the site. A break (Wth 4m) in the bank at SSE marks the position of the original entrance. There is a small livestock break through the bank at NE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL014-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pasture, adjacent to a farmyard. A subcircular area (21.2m N-S; 22.15m E-W) is enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.37m; ext. H 1.27m; Wth 2.6m). An area of quarrying (Wth 6m) is located at the SW. There is evidence of revettement at the SE, where large stones (L 0.7m; Wth 0.4m to L 0.3m; Wth 0.3m) form a regular setting. There is no trace of a fosse or an original entrance feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL014-020 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on the summit of a natural rise in undulating pasture. A sub-circular area (25.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) is enclosed by a bank (int. H at N 0.5m; int H at S 0.15m; ext. H at N 0.55m; ext. H at S 1.25m; Wth at N 1m; Wth at S 0.34m). The bank is higher and wider at the N and to the S it consists of a narrow stone bank built on a stepped scarp. There is no fosse and there is no clear entrance feature, though there are a number of breaks in the bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carncash.
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 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_1130 (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 Carncash with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Carncash · Carn Chais
- Area
- 805,561 m² (80.56 ha, 199.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Calry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Drumcliff East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcliff East electoral division: 764 people in 299 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doonally, Kiltycooly, Lisnalurg, Rahaberna, Shannon Oughter, Teesan
- Placenames
- Carncash 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.