Carrowntawa

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowntawa, from 342 m² to 142,618 m² (14.26 ha, 35.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Carrowntawa 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 Jul 2026N/a

  Renovation and extension to existing dwelling, including demolition of adjoining shed and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660304

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  Renovation and extension to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660265

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 Carrowntawa.

Recorded monuments

• SL032-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope. A raised circular area (27.5m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) S-N and by a hedgerow, which is part of a field boundary, N-S. There are numerous gaps in the bank. 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

• SL032-219 Souterrain
  Description

  On flat dry ground SW of a farmhouse. According to local information, a passage roofed with large lintels, extended NE-SW for c. 30m. A rectangular chamber, in which a person could stand up, also existed. This passage was subsequently closed. 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

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

  Detached rendered Roman Catholic Church, built c. 1890. Cruciform plan, chancel to east end, three-bay nave, two-bay north and south transepts, two-bay gabled porch to north-west, three-bay gabled sacristy to south-east. Pitched slate roofs, roll-top clay ridge tiles, ashlar gable copings with corbelled springers, stone crucifix to east gable apex, corbelled ashlar limestone bellcote to west gable apex, wrought-iron finials to north and south gables. Cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, rock-faced margined ashlar limestone quoins. Lancet windows, limestone block-and-start surrounds to gables, plain render surrounds to nave, entrance porch and sacristy, flush sills, stained-glass leaded-light windows. Pointed-arch door opening to sacristy, flat-headed opening to porch, hardwood vertically-sheeted double doors. Interior with scissor truss roof on corbels, panelled ceiling between purlins, painted plain-plastered walling, pointed-arches with chamfered intrados to transepts. Set in bitmac carpark, two grave markers, flat-roofed smooth-rendered outbuildings to north-west, painted smooth-rendered boundary wall to road, decorative cast-iron railings and gates.

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 Carrowntawa, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrowntawa · Ceathrú an tSamhaidh

Area

687,247 m² (68.72 ha, 169.82 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Streamstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 99 households in the Streamstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnyara, Carrowmore, Cloonaraher, Lavagh, Streamstown

Placenames

Carrowntawa 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.