Carrowmorris
Carrowmorris is a townland in the civil parish of Dromard, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú Mhuirís.
- Area
- 61.6 ha
- 152 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 8,938 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowmorris, from 99 m² to 108,636 m² (10.86 ha, 26.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Carrowmorris 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
19 Oct 2023Conditional
to: (1) Demolish existing conservatory / sunroom to front elevation of existing dwelling house; (2) construct new extensions to gable end and rear of existing dwelling house (3) carry out all necessary alterations and refurbishment works to existing dwelling house; (4) demolish existing storage shed; (5) relocate existing vehicular entrance; (6) upgrade existing septic tank with the installation of new effluent treatment system and percolation area together with the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360284
21 Jun 2022Conditional
development consisting of an existing detached storage shed
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22215
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowmorris.
Recorded monuments
- SL019-089 Enclosure
Description
Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1913 edition as a small D-shaped field. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 32m) defined from W-WNW-NW by a curve in the modern field boundary and from NNW-N-E by a low scarp (H 0.5m). The S half of the site has been levelled and there are no upstanding remains surviving. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisabble. The E-W field boundary, which divided the site into approximately equal portions, has been removed. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL019-222 Burnt mound
Description
In pasture, situated against the E slope of a low rise, with a small water-filled hollow c. 5m to NE which drains to S into area of wet, marshy ground. There is a small concrete pump-house in the SW corner of the field. Poorly defined, sod-covered mound (c. 12m N-S; c. 6m E-W; H 0.8m against slope at NW), which merges on the W side with a naturally-occurring rise. Erosion by farm stock exposed stone fragments in black soil. Another burnt mound (SL019-221----) is located c. 30m to SE, and an enclosure (SL019-085----) c. 35m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrowmorris.
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 Carrowmorris, 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 Carrowmorris.
- 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 Carrowmorris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrowmorris · Ceathrú Mhuirís
- Area
- 615,917 m² (61.59 ha, 152.2 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, Carrowconor, Carrownaboll, Carrownaguivna West, Carrownree, Spring Garden
- Placenames
- Carrowmorris 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.