Carrowcaslan

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcaslan, from 68 m² to 73,666 m² (7.37 ha, 18.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carrowcaslan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrowcaslan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carrowcaslan.

Recorded monuments

• SL012-026001 Moated site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL012-026002 Moated site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL012-026003 Structure
  Description

  In a moated site (SL012-026001-). When inspected in 1993, several sod-covered hummocks and low banks were noted in the interior of the moated site. No clear pattern was discernible but some of these features may have been remnants of structures or internal divisions. When inspected in 2005 no trace of the features was evident. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 April 2013

• SL012-097001 Castle - ringwork and bailey
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL012-097002 Building
  Description

  At a ringwork (SL012-097001-). Centrally located within the S half of the interior are the ruins of a small square building (4.5m NNW-SSE; 4.45m ENE-WSW; max. H 1.95m; wall T 0.8m) constructed of mortared limestone with some brick visible in the W wall. The N wall has been removed. This building is known locally as 'the pigeon house'. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-097003 Souterrain
  Description

  At a ringwork (SL012-097001-). According to local tradition, there is a stone-built souterrain in the ringwork. An access hole was located on the E side of the enclosure but was blocked up in the past and no trace of the souterrain is now evident. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-107 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In pasture, located in a lowlying hollow, on the S border of a tract of wet, marshy ground. Low, subcircular earthen mound (10.5m N-S; 9.3m E-W; H 1m at W, 1.15m at E). The top of the mound (6.6m N-S; 5.4m E-W) is level. No evidence of an encircling bank or fosse. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-123 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated at the base of a gentle N-facing slope on the edge of an area of wet, marshy ground. Low, oval-shaped mound (5m E-W; 3m N-S; H 0.4m) composed of shattered sandstone fragments within a matrix of black soil. At the base of the mound is what appears to be a spread of levelled material. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowcaslan.

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrowcaslan, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carrowcaslan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Carrowcaslan · Ceathrú an Chaisleáín

Area

474,130 m² (47.41 ha, 117.16 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Aughris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

171 people lived in 71 households in the Aughris electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfaris, Carrownaknockan, Carrownurlar, Cartronofarry South, Corkagh Beg, Corkagh More, Laragh

Placenames

Carrowcaslan 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.