# Carrowntawa, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ceathrú an tSamhaidh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 687,247 m² (68.72 ha, 169.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,581 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Achonry, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/achonry.md - Barony: Leyny - Electoral division: Streamstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45716 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200356 - Centre: latitude 54.108272, longitude -8.691612 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrowntawa, from 342 m² to 142,618 m² (14.26 ha, 35.24 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 740632: 142,618 m² (14.26 ha, 35.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740632.md - Parcel 740631: 87,047 m² (8.7 ha, 21.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740631.md - Parcel 768995: 76,226 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/768995.md - Parcel 768998: 52,924 m² (5.29 ha, 13.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/768998.md - Parcel 768996: 42,749 m² (4.27 ha, 10.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/768996.md - Parcel 5322092: 42,646 m² (4.26 ha, 10.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5322092.md - Parcel 737767: 38,761 m² (3.88 ha, 9.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737767.md - Parcel 768794: 37,581 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/768794.md - Parcel 763348: 32,588 m² (3.26 ha, 8.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763348.md - Parcel 765857: 31,434 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765857.md - Parcel 1536867: 28,045 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1536867.md - Parcel 740633: 12,499 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740633.md - Parcel 1536868: 12,189 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1536868.md - Parcel 752720: 4,972 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752720.md - Parcel 759361: 4,905 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/759361.md - Parcel 5684566: 4,158 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5684566.md - Parcel 760353: 4,008 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760353.md - Parcel 762215: 3,702 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762215.md - Parcel 753548: 3,635 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/753548.md - Parcel 751559: 1,911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/751559.md - Parcel 780260: 1,427 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/780260.md - Parcel 759181: 1,187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/759181.md - Parcel 779135: 1,102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/779135.md - Parcel 734225: 1,041 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/734225.md - Parcel 768981: 730 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/768981.md - Parcel 778397: 342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/778397.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Jul 2026, Sligo County Council 2660304: N/a. Permission. Renovation and extension to existing dwelling, including demolition of adjoining shed and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660304/0 - 1 Jul 2026, Sligo County Council 2660265: N/a. Permission. Renovation and extension to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660265/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrowntawa. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL032-045: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL032-045----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL032-219----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 32403203, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL®no=32403203. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowntawa.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowntawa.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowntawa.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Carrowntawa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carnyara: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carnyara.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowmore-200314.md - Cloonaraher: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cloonaraher-200453.md - Lavagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/lavagh-200922.md - Streamstown: https://everytownland.com/sligo/streamstown-201189.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowntawa - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/carrowntawa