Carrowcushcly

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowcushcly, from 382 m² to 124,434 m² (12.44 ha, 30.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Carrowcushcly 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.

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) to retain the revised elevation changes to our dwelling house, elevations differ as to what was previously granted under PL7543 (2) to retain the existing domestic garage (3) to retain the existing domestic shed A (4) to retain the existing domestic shed B (5) to retain the revised site boundaries (6) to retain the second site entrance (7) and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560304

• 13 Mar 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of alterations and construction of a rear two-storey 51 sq m extension to an existing dwelling house, and all associated site works, including removal of existing chimneys, demolition of old 11 sq m single-storey rear extension, as well as alterations to the existing fenestration, floor plans, building elevation and ridge height (increasing from 6.73 m to 7.97 m).

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560097

• 1 Mar 2025N/a

  The development will consist of alterations and construction of a rear two-storey 51 sq m extension to an existing dwelling house, and all associated site works, including removal of existing chimneys, demolition of old 11 sq m single-storey rear extension, as well as alterations to the existing fenestration, floor plans and building elevation

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560076

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new slatted shed with loose area and feed passage and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20194

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of Permission to construct 1 No. extension to existing Pig House together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works, on the site of existing pig farm.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18172

• 11 Sept 2017Conditional

  Planning permission and planning retention for 1) Retention permission for bedroom/en-suite extension to east elevation of dwelling house. (2) Retention permission for domestic garage / fuel store / boiler house. (3) Permission to decommission existing septic tank and install new septic tank and percolation areas, and associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17347

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 Carrowcushcly.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-011 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying level pasture. A raised oval platform (diam. 23m x 20m; H 1m) with a large hollow in the S half. Indicated as a raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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

• SL033-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a rise. A circular raised area (int. diam. 27.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2m). There is an entrance (Wth 4.2m) at SE. Some trees grow along the bank. 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

• SL033-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, at the base of a slope and adjacent to a stream. A circular area (int. diam. 19m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. 0.8m; ext. H 1.6m) and an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 1m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) at SE with a causeway (Wth 4m) across the fosse. 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

• SL033-014 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, at the base of a SSE-facing slope. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 14m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.75m) NW-WSW. The scarp has been removed WSW-NW due to quarrying which also encroaches into the interior for a distance of c. 4m. A small heap of quarry debris has been dumped to N of the quarry pit against the scarp at NW. An earth and stone field boundary abuts the base of the scarp along the E arc. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. 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 Carrowcushcly.

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 Carrowcushcly, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowcushcly · Ceathrú Chois an Chlaí

Area

1,530,985 m² (153.1 ha, 378.31 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Carrickbanagher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

707 people lived in 241 households in the Carrickbanagher electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnaglass, Carrickbanagher, Carrigans Lower, Cloonamanagh, Cluid, Knockadalteen

Placenames

Carrowcushcly 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.