Carrowclare

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowclare, from 44 m² to 104,042 m² (10.4 ha, 25.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Carrowclare 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.

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  (1) construction of a new astro pitch with associated floodlighting and fencing (2) construction of a new clubhouse consisting of 4 number changing rooms, general-purpose room, kitchen, toilets and ancillary accommodation which will be partially incorporated within and also include extensions and alterations to the existing covered multi-purpose area (3) proposed new waste water treatment system and percolation area (4) and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560221

• 9 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) demolition of existing changing rooms (2) construction of a new two storey clubhouse consisting of 4 number changing rooms, general-purpose room, kitchen, toilets and ancillary accommodation (3) proposed new waste water treatment system and percolation area (4) and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460067

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  development consisting of construction of spectator stand (area 180sqm approx.) serving existing concrete terrace area together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360122

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of alterations and extension to existing facility, including the construction of loading docks together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18476

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of (a) 6m high public lighting fixtures at 30m spacing or thereabouts to the perimeter path at GAA pitch. (b) 2 No. 12-15 m high sportslighting fixtures at the training pitch together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18416

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 Carrowclare.

Recorded monuments

• SL032-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the SW-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 23m) terraced into the hillslope with the E side up to 1.25m below and W side up to 0.5m above the external ground level. The foundations of a drystone wall extends E-W for c. 10m along the S arc. The rath is heavily overgrown. It was described during a previous inspection in 1977 (SMR (1989) file) as having a low earth and stone bank (Wth c. 3m; H c. 0.3m) along the N and S arcs, a scarp (H c. 1.25m) along the W arc, with the E side cut into the hillside. Stone facing was noted on the inner edge of the bank at S. 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

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

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 Carrowclare, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowclare · Ceathrú an Chláir

Area

452,527 m² (45.25 ha, 111.82 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Streamstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 99 households in the Streamstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Achonry, Carrowcarragh, Streamstown, Tawnavoultry, Tullyhugh

Placenames

Carrowclare 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.