Carrowconor

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowconor, from 46 m² to 90,078 m² (9.01 ha, 22.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Carrowconor 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.

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  1. Construction of a new bungalow type dwelling 2. Construction of a new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area in accordance with EPA Code of Practice 3. All associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560260

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, construct domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works - CONDITION NO. 14 COMPLIED WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560193

• 8 May 2025N/a

  Planning permission to construct dwelling house, construct domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works at Carrowconor, Dromard, Co. Sligo

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560182

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 Carrowconor.

Recorded monuments

• SL019-024 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL019-090001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in lowlying, level pasture. Raised circular area (dims. 26.8m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a stone revetted bank of earth and stone (Wth. 5.7m; int. H 0.9m). Portion of the bank has been quarried away at E. No fosse. Partially stone-lined break in bank at S (Wth. 2.4m) represents original entrance. Within the NW quadrant of the interior is a house site (SL019-090002-). A possible souterrain extends from the entrance into the interior (SL019-090003-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-090002 House - early medieval
  Description

  In a rath (SL019-090001-). Within the NW quadrant of the rath interior is a subrectangular house (8m NNW-SSE; 5.4m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low wall of earth and stone (Wth 1.2-1.6m; int. H 0.35m). The NNW end abutts the inner face of the rath's bank. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-090003 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL019-090001-). A short, subrectangular, sunken depression (L 4m; D 0.4m) of extends into the interior of the rath from the entrance. It may indicated a collapsed souterrain passage. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-094 Mound
  Description

  Situated in level pasture. Depicted as a small circular feature on both editions of the OS 6-inch map. Approx. circular, slightly raised area (max. dim. 8m; H 0.45m). Four stones at SE and S and a single stone at NW may be the last remnants of a kerb. No fosse. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised oval area (dims. 33m E-W; 23.8m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3.8m; int. H 0.3m) with some evidence for internal stone kerbing. At NW and N the defining element is a low scarp with some evidence for external stone kerbing. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. The site is divided into approx. equal portions by a ENE-WSW field walls. Abutting the NNW side of this, a short distance W of centre, is an irregularly-shaped pit (dims. c.8m E-W; c.5m N-S - D 0.5m) of unknown significance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3.7m - 6.7m; int. H 0.5m - 0.6m). No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. The N and NE of the site have been built up higher than the remainder to compensate for the naturally-occurring slope of the rise. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a low rise. Raised circular area (dims.20.9m E-W; 20.5m N-S) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3m - 3.9m; int. H 0.5m - 0.95m; ext. H 1.3m - 1.8m) Portions of a possible kerb, where stones protrude the sod, can be traced within the interior. From E of the centre of the interior is a linear feature, on a NNW-SSE axis, which may mark an internal division. In the SE quadrant is a rubble-filled feature of unknown significance. Poorly defined, low area at W (Wth. c.3m) probably marks the original entrance. There is a eroded gap (Wth. 1m) in the bank at S. 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 Carrowconor.

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 Carrowconor, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowconor · Ceathrú Uí Chonchúir

Area

653,941 m² (65.39 ha, 161.59 acres)

Civil parish

Dromard, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Dromard West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnafedia, Carrowmorris, Carrownaboll, Carrownaguivna East, Carrownaguivna West, Halfquarter, Longford Demesne, Loughannacrannoge

Placenames

Carrowconor 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.