Carrownleam

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownleam, from 561 m² to 190,820 m² (19.08 ha, 47.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) retain extension to the front and side of existing dwelling house (2) retain extension to the rear of the existing outbuilding (3) and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560302

• 21 Sept 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) construction of a new waste water treatment system and associated percolation area and (2) all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18383

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 Carrownleam.

Recorded monuments

• SL025-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of the SW end of a ridge. A circular raised area (19.7m N-S) defined along the N arc by a broad low rise (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) and by a scarp (H 1.1m) elsewhere. The entrance may have been at E where the scarp is lowest. The interior and top of the ridge is crossed by cultivation ridges on N-S axis. A hut site (SL025-160----) is c. 80m to NNW. 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

• SL025-042 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In forestry, straddling a break of slope on the SW side of a low rise. A circular area (diam. 17m) enclosed by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.2m). The interior, which slopes gently down to SW, is planted with coniferous trees. A possible cashel (SL025-043----) lies c. 190m to SSE. 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

• SL025-043 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a low rise. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with a tree in the interior. The possible cashel is not visible at ground level. A cashel (SL025-042----), similarly indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, lies c. 190m to NNW. 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

• SL025-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, near the base of a gentle SE-facing slope. A raised circular area (28m N-S) defined SE-NW by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.3m), with traces of internal stone revetment, and by a scarp elsewhere. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary SW-NW. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at SE and a gap (Wth 5m) at NNW. From NNE-SE, outside the scarp, is a trench (Wth 4m; D 0.8m) with upcast on its external side, apparently of recent origin. The interior is grass-covered and slopes slightly down to SE. 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

• SL025-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, at a break of slope on the N side of a low E-W ridge. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 23m) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (ext. H 2m), which is almost levelled internally. There is a gap (Wth 2m) at NE. There is an external terrace (Wth 3m; H 1m) at the base of the bank NW-NE. The interior is grass-covered and mostly level but slopes gently down from the centre towards NE. The interior is bisected E-W by a field boundary and a drain. 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

• SL025-160 Hut site
  Description

  In level wet pasture, c. 80m SSE of a rath (SL025-041----) and immediately N of a disused railway line. The remains of a circular hut (9m N-S; 7.8m E-W) defined by a low sod-covered bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.2m). Traces of internal stone kerbing are evident along the NE arc. There are gaps (Wth 2m) in the bank at SE and N. The interior is wet and sparsely covered with rushes. Partially sod-covered stones are scattered throughout the interior with one group forming a shallow E-W arc (C 2m) in the S half. 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 Carrownleam.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_965 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrownleam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Carrownleam · Ceathrú an Léime

Area

984,042 m² (98.4 ha, 243.16 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Coolaney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolaney electoral division: 1,563 people in 558 households; 74% of households own their home; 73% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownacleigha, Creevaun, Knockadoo, Lissalough, Rathbarran, Shancough

Placenames

Carrownleam 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.