Carrowmacrory

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmacrory, from 19,902 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres) to 211,549 m² (21.15 ha, 52.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Carrowmacrory 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 Carrowmacrory 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 Carrowmacrory.

Recorded monuments

• SL012-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, straddles the break of slope on top of a low N-S ridge. Ground falls away towards a river c. 100m to E. Raised raised circular platform (31m N-S; 29.2m E-W) enclosed by fragmentary remains of a bank (Wth c. 5m; ext. H 0.9m at W, 1.6m at E). The E half of the interior slopes down from W to E. There are several depressions and areas of disturbance in the interior. The entrance may have been on the SW side where interior ground level is lowest relative to the exterior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-106 Church
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as R.C. Chapel and as R.C. chapel (in Ruins) on the 1909 25" plan. This a very late 18th or early 19th century building. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-117001 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Not listed in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrow'. This is one of a series of five small circular features depicted on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map in the field immediately to the N of a large House, bearing the designation 'Sea View' on the 1837 map, which is traversed by the laneway leading to the house from the main road. Although the circular features are not shown on the 1837 map numerous trees are depicted within this field. This monument comprises a circular area (13.4m N-S; 12.8m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) and narrow external ditch (Wth 1.4m; D 0.3m). The interior is level. This is almost certainly a tree-ring of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload 31 July 2012

• SL012-117002 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Not listed in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrow'. This is one of a series of five small circular features depicted on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map in the field immediately to the N of a large House, bearing the designation 'Sea View' on the 1837 map, which is traversed by the laneway leading to the house from the main road. Although the circular features are not shown on the 1837 map numerous trees are depicted within this field. This monument comprises a small, slightly raised circular area (8m N-S; 7.5m E-W) enclosed by ephemeral remains of an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) with traces of an outer ditch. It is almost certainly a tree-ring of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 31 July 2012

• SL012-117003 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Not listed in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrow'. This is one of a series of five small circular features depicted on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map in the field immediately to the N of a large House, bearing the designation 'Sea View' on the 1837 map, which is traversed by the laneway leading to the house from the main road. Although the circular features are not shown on the 1837 map numerous trees are depicted within this field. This monument comprises a small circular area (12.8m N-S; 11.5m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.5-1.6m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.55m) with outer ditch (Wth 1.5m; D 0.3m). The interior is slightly raised and slopes gently to the E. It is almost certainly a tree-ring of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 31 July 2012

• SL012-117004 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Not listed in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrow'. This is one of a series of five small circular features depicted on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map in the field immediately to the N of a large House, bearing the designation 'Sea View' on the 1837 map, which is traversed by the laneway leading to the house from the main road. Although the circular features are not shown on the 1837 map numerous trees are depicted within this field. This, the best preserved of the five monuments, comprises a small circular area (diam. 7.3m) defined by a bank (W2.4-3m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) with outer ditch (Wth 2m; D 0.4m). The interior slopes down from W to E. Some stones are exposed in the external face of the bank. It is almost certainly a tree-ring of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 31 July 2012

• SL012-117005 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Not listed in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Barrow'. This is one of a series of five small circular features depicted on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map in the field immediately to the N of a large House, bearing the designation 'Sea View' on the 1837 map, which is traversed by the laneway leading to the house from the main road. Although the circular features are not shown on the 1837 map numerous trees are depicted within this field. This monument comprises a circular area (12.3m N-S; 11.3m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m) with outer ditch. The ditch is evident only as a crop mark (Wth. c. 1.4m). This is almost certainly a tree-ring of post-1700 date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 31 July 2012

Architectural heritage

• Doonycoy, country house, 1740–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement rendered house, built c. 1760. T-plan, central pedimented breakfront with single-storey projecting canted entrance porch to main (north) elevation, canted oriel window with tapered base to east gable, three-bay three-storey return to south. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to entrance porch and oriel, clay ridge tiles, crested ridge to porch, painted roughcast chimneystacks with stone stepped capping and yellow clay pots, ashlar stone verges to east and west gables, uPVC gutters at eaves. Unpainted smooth rendered walls to north elevation, roughcast elsewhere. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows, two-over-two to oriel. Painted multi-pane fixed lights to porch. Round-headed first floor window opening to central breakfront, painted two-over-two timber sash window. Painted half-glazed timber door to east side of porch, cast-iron balustrade to stone steps to either side of porch. Set in extensive grounds with lawns and trees, approached from east by gravelled driveway. Outbuildings to south form courtyard area, castellated tower to south-west corner.

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 Carrowmacrory, about 1 in 10 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 Carrowmacrory.

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

Name

Carrowmacrory · Ceathrú Mhic Ruairí

Area

568,603 m² (56.86 ha, 140.5 acres)

Civil parish

Templeboy, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Templeboy North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 112 households in the Templeboy North electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkill, Ballyeeskeen, Carrowmoran, Cashelboy, Doonycoy

Placenames

Carrowmacrory 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.