Carrowmore
Carrowmore is a townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is An Cheathrú Mhór.
- Area
- 155.2 ha
- 384 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 10,037 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmore, from 28 m² to 115,701 m² (11.57 ha, 28.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrowmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jun 2019Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and sevices.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19243
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrowmore.
Architectural heritage
- Carrowmore National School, school, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey stone school, built 1834. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, stone gable copings, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, half-round cast-iron gutters on stone eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipes. Coursed rubble limestone walling, projecting plinth, plaque inscribed 'Carrowmore National School 1834' on west gable. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber casement windows c. 1990. Square-headed door opening, smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, painted vertically-sheeted timber door, plain-glazed overlight. Concrete and gravel paths, grass, rubble stone boundary walls, privy with pitched slate roof and rubble stone walls to east.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrowmore, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrowmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrowmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmore · An Cheathrú Mhór
- Area
- 1,552,173 m² (155.22 ha, 383.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achonry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Cartron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 157 people lived in 64 households in the Cartron electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowntawa, Cashel North, Cloonaraher, Cloondrihara, Knocknashee Common, Lavagh
- Placenames
- Carrowmore 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.