Carrownrush

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownrush, from 121 m² to 167,528 m² (16.75 ha, 41.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Carrownrush 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.

• 24 Aug 2026N/a

  The development consists of 1. Construction of new Community Centre. 2. Installation of onsite wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 3. Provide disabled compliant car parking bay and general parking to the proposed Community Centre by extending existing Church car park. 4. Carryout all associated and ancillary works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660337

• 19 May 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new domestic garage, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 15404

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 Carrownrush.

Recorded monuments

• SL011-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 22.8m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 2.75m; int. H 0.2m-0.5m; ext H 0.7m). No fosse. Narrow break in bank at WSW (Wth. c. 1m) may mark original entrance. Field clearance including large stones has been thrown up on the bank and within the internal area. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-004001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating pasture on level ground immediately to the NE of an enclosure (SL011-004002-). Remains consist of a roughly D-shaped slightly raised area (18m E-W; 14m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.2m). There is no visible trace of a fosse at ground level. From W-NW and from SSE-SSW the bank is absent and the defining element is a scarp (H 0.3m). The enclosing element is absent SSW-WSW. The original entrance to the enclosure appears to be via a gap (Wth 2.5m) between a pair of outshot banks at NNW. The remains of a rectangular hut site (SL011-004003-) lie in the SW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-004002 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating pasture on level ground immediately to the SW of an enclosure (SL011-004001-). Remains consist of a circular area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m). There is no visible trace of a fosse at ground level. From N-E the bank is absent and the enclosing element is an inward facing scarp (H 0.2m). The enclosing element is absent SE-S. The original entrance is not recognisable. There is evidence of extensive disturbance in the interior with low irregular heaps of subsoil in the SW quadrant of the interior and against the internal face of the bank. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-004003 House - early medieval
  Description

  Located in SW quadrant of an enclosure (SL011-004001-). Remains comprise of a roughly rectangular area (8m NE-SW; 5.5m NW-SE) defined on the NE site by the low footings of a drystone, rubble limestone, wall (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.35m) and on the NW, SE and SW sides by a slight inward facing scarped edge (int. H 0.25m). A small section of degraded stone wall footings survives at the corner at S. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior of the hut site is lower than the level of the enclosure. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-004004 Midden
  Description

  A midden, listed in the RMP (1998), was noted at an enclosure (SL011-004002-) but no details were recorded, and the source of information is unknown. There was no visible trace of the midden when the area was inspected in 2003. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 28 July 2016

• SL011-005 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Small, low, circular, flat-topped mound of earth and stone (diam. 6.75m) defined from W-N-NNE and at ESE by a scarp faced with large stones or boulders (H 0.8m). Elsewhere the perimeter has been levelled and only its outline is identifiable. At the centre of the top of the mound is a large boulder. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-006001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in fertile pasture on a gentle N-facing slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Raised circular area (diam. 24.6m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 5.8m - 7.5m; H 0.2m - 1.1m). No fosse. Stone lined entrance at SE (Wth. 1.1m). A poorly defined break in the bank at N (Wth. c.1m) may mark a second entrance. No remains of the souterrain (SL011-006002-) were identified. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-006002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL011-006002-). There is no visible trace of a souterrain in the rath interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload:11 March 2013

• SL011-028 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a low but prominent rise on a NNE-facing slope overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Low, irregularly-shaped granite block (present max. exposed H 1.24m; dims. 0.82m x 0.28m), aligned E-W, and tilting appreciably to the W side. According to the landowner, the stone is known in the locality as 'The Priest's Stone' and was used as an assembly point during the Penal Times. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-029 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Star of the Sea, church/chapel, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-cell rendered Roman Catholic church, built c. 1890, extensively renovated c. 2000. Gable-fronted entrance porch to north elevation, bellcote to west elevation, single-storey pitched-roof sacristy c. 2000 to south elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, ashlar limestone verges with gabled springers, moulded cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Painted textured-rendered walling, raised channel-jointed quoins, chamfered plinth. Pointed-arched window openings, channel-jointed block-and-start side dressings, hood moulds with square block stops, painted margin-paned one-over-one timber sash windows with coloured glass panes, secondary glazing. Triple lancet window to west gable over entrance, channel-jointed block-and-start side dressings, hood moulding with square block stops, painted margin-paned timber fixed lights to west gable, pointed-arched stained glass leaded light window to east gable. Pointed-arched door openings to north entrance porch and west elevation, opening to porch with splayed reveals, opening to west with stepped splayed reveals, hardwood vertically-sheeted double doors c. 2000. Single-aisled interior, pointed chancel arch, replacement timber fittings including interior doors, timber balcony to east end with open balustrade to front, timber sheeted ceiling. Set back from and below road, bitmac car parking areas to north and south, smooth-rendered boundary wall.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrownrush · Ceathrú an Rois

Area

1,324,351 m² (132.44 ha, 327.25 acres)

Civil parish

Easky, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Easky West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Easky West electoral division: 664 people in 271 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmacbryan, Carrowpadeen, Finned, Rathlee

Placenames

Carrownrush 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.