Carrowbleagh East

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowbleagh East, from 161 m² to 52,878 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrowbleagh East 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.

• 5 Jun 2026Conditional

  1) Retain the material change to the façade of the existing cottage, 2) Install a new tertiary wastewater treatment system and, 3) Carry out all ancillary site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660212

• 4 Aug 2021Conditional

  development consisting of (1) change of house type from that as previously granted under pl ref. 11/192, (2) changes to effluent treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 21311

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) construction of new milking parlour and dairy unit, (2) construction of new slatted shed with cubicles (3) construction of new calf housing (4) formation of new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20332

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 Carrowbleagh East.

Recorded monuments

• SL019-106 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in level pasture. Circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3.6m - 6.5m; int. H 0.2m - 1.3m) which incorporates much field clearance debris. The bank is barely discernible from WSW-W-NNW where the site is bordered by a modern roadway. Some large stones visible at N may be the remnants of a kerb. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-200001 Building
  Description

  The building is indicated though not named on both the 1837 and 1910 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The remains comprise a single-storey, vaulted structure (6.25m L x 3.50m W internally) with walls 1.25m T. The walls stand to c. 2m high and the building is c. 4m high to the apex of the gable. The W wall contains three openings, 2 splayed loops flanking a wider central one - possibly a window - the outer stonework is missing so it is impossible to know the external width of the opening: the S of these three opes is blocked up. There are three comparable openings in the E wall. The N and middle one are splayed and the S one appears to be the remains of a wall-press; its sides do not appear to be splayed. The outer ends of these opes are damaged and blocked up. There is no evidence for a window/opening in the S gable. Set about mid-way in the exterior face is a stone with a hole. Although it superficially looks like a gun-loop it is not splayed or regularly dressed. In addition, there is no evidence of an opening at this point on the interior of the wall and it would appear that this stone was inserted here. More than likely it originally served as the footing stone for the pintle of a door. The entrance to the building is via a pointed doorway (W 1.05m, H 1.60m) in the centre of the N wall. Only the upper part of the doorway is visible on the exterior, the lower being obscured by a mound of stone and gravel placed there to hinder access to the building (pers comm. landowner). The stones forming the doorway are all dressed with large punch marks typical of 16th/17th century work. The doorway is slightly battered and this is retained in the stonework for c. 0.50m on either side where it is then set back to the vertical. There is a local tradition that both the doorway and armorial stone set in the wall above it (SL019-200003-) were brought here from the old 'castle' to the W. However, while it seems likely that the armorial stone is certainly an insertion, the doorway, more than likely, is in situ and formed part of the original building. This building is described in the Buildings of architectural interest in Co. Sligo (An Foras Forbartha, 1973, p. 22) as a '17th century chapel' and in the subsequent edition of same (1979, p. 56) as 'apparently an early-17th century chapel, but so rustic as to give little indication as to its function, perhaps more likely a gate-lodge.' It is most unlikely that this building ever functioned as a gate-lodge and its identification as a 'chapel' would appear to be based on a miss-reading by the compiler of the report of the OS 6-inch map. The compiler appears to have linked the name 'Old Chapel' with this building rather than with that to the east in the grounds of Longford House. This interpretation of events is reinforced by the fact that the reference in the report to the latter building makes no mention of it as being a chapel. The vaulted building has clear affinities with tower-house rather than church architecture and, in addition, it is aligned N-S, an atypical orientation for a church. Wood-Martin recorded the tradition that it once served as a forge (1882, I, 118) and this would explain the flue-hole broken through the apex of the vault about two-thirds of the way S of the entrance: above this sits the chimney. It is difficult to assign a date to the building with any accuracy though the use of the punch dressing on the doorway would indicate a date in the later 16th/early 17th century. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-200003 Armorial plaque
  Description

  Set in the N wall above the doorway of a late-medieval building (SL019-200001-) is an armorial stone (0.74m H x 0.65m W) bearing the much-weathered arms, crest and motto of the Crofton family, all represented within a roundel delineated by a raised band; the carving is in shallow false relief. At the lower end of the roundel may be discerned the faint traces of a crudely-carved lion, passant, guardant (the Crofton arms) and directly above is a seven-branched stalk of wheat (the crest). Traces of the family motto 'Dat Deus Incrementum' can be read, especially within the band at the top where the letters DEUS and INCRE are clearly discernible. In the top right-hand corner are remnants of an ornamental design comprising two curving terminals with a leaf-shaped motif, almost like a crude fleur-de-lis; the corresponding ornament in the left-hand corner is completely worn away. The date of this piece is uncertain. The style of lettering is typical of that found in 17th cent. contexts but would not be out of character in the early 18th century. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 December 2011

• SL019-237 Church
  Description

  Incorporated into the garden of a house, with rising ground immediately to W and a road immediately to S. A T-plan church, annotated ‘R. C. Chapel (in Ruins’), is shown on the 1837 and the 1913 OS 6-inch maps. The transepts, which make up the bar of the 'T', are aligned E–W and the nave or shaft of the 'T' extends to the S. The church is constructed of mortared random rubble. The total N–S length appears to have been c. 17m, and total E–W length c. 16-17m. The roofless ruins comprise the W transept and the nave. The gable (L 6.2m N–S) of the W transept is intact and has a central pointed-arch window. The side walls (Wth 0.6m) of this transept survive to a height of 1.4m and a length of 5-6m E–W. A shed overlies, and possibly incorporates, the N wall of the E transept. There is no trace of the remainder of the E transept. The end or S wall (Wth 7m E–W) of the nave has a central blocked up doorway. The W side wall (L 10.5m N–S) of the nave is intact. The E side wall extends N from the end wall for 4m, decreasing in height towards its N end which has a cut-stone stoup (bowl diam. 0.3m) cemented onto it. The church probably dates to late 18th- or early 19th-century. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 April 2014

Architectural heritage

• Forge/smithy, 1200–1600 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey stone former forge, built c. 1400, now a ruin. Pitched roof covering missing, extensive vegetation growth on stone vault below, possible chimney on ridge concealed by vegetation. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling, oblong plaque over door on north gable with inscription (illegible). Square-headed opening on west elevation partially blocked. Pointed-arch doorway on north gable, dressed stone surround. Fronting road, tree against north-west corner at field entrance, wrought-iron gate mounted on south-east corner.

• Post box, 1840–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron Victorian post box, erected c. 1870. Painted moulded cast-iron front panel with embossed 'VR'. Set in and projecting above rubble stone boundary wall fronting Chapel Street.

• The Swallow Loft, church/chapel, 1700–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached stone church ruin, built c. 1750. Adjacent to extended cottage to east. North transept gable and west nave gable survive, shrine built into west gable c. 1950. Single pointed-arch window opening to north transept gable. Five-bay single-storey cottage with attached two-storey building. Pitched artificial slate roofs, smooth rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walling, raised quoins, smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, dressed stone sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows c. 2000, timber casement windows to extension c. 2000. Square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted door to south-facing porch. Both cottage and ruin are set back from road, dry stone boundary wall, Hooped wrought-iron garden gate, gravel courtyard, garden.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowbleagh East · Ceathrú Bhleitheach Thoir

Area

347,793 m² (34.78 ha, 85.94 acres)

Civil parish

Dromard, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Dromard West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromard West electoral division: 207 people in 66 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altanelvick, Carroward, Corskeagh, Cutteanta, Dromard, Longford Demesne, Toorard

Placenames

Carrowbleagh East 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.