Carrownteane
Carrownteane is a townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Ceathrú an tSiáin.
- Area
- 36.2 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 4,511 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrownteane, from 49 m² to 80,133 m² (8.01 ha, 19.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Carrownteane 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
6 Feb 2025Conditional
to construct dwelling house, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560041
23 Jul 2021Conditional
Development consisting of construction of a new dwelling house , new garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, formation of a new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21291
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 Carrownteane.
Recorded monuments
- SL013-071 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (dims. 20m E-W; 19m N-S) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.4m). The original entrance is not recognisable. There is no fosse visible at ground level. From NW-ENE and at SW, the internal and external faces of the bank are revetted with limestone slabs laid in edge. A drystone field wall abuts the external face of the bank S-SW and lies on top of the bank SW-NW. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-073001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 28m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by an earthen scarp (ext. H 1.3m). A ramp (Wth 3.2m) across the scarp at NE marks the position of the original entrance. The interior of the site slopes gently facing NE. Extending into the interior from the scarp defining the rath at NW is a possible hut site (SL013-073002-). Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL013-073002 House - early medieval
Description
Extending into the interior of Carrownteane rath (SL013-073001-) at NW is a roughly rectangular possible hut site (dims. 9m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (int. H 0.15m). The interior is level and slightly lower than the interior of the rath. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrownteane.
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 Carrownteane, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrownteane.
- 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 Carrownteane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Carrownteane · Ceathrú an tSiáin
- Area
- 362,225 m² (36.22 ha, 89.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skreen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Toberpatrick East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 232 people lived in 88 households in the Toberpatrick East electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brockagh, Buninna, Carrowbrickeen, Carrowgilhooly, Fallathurteen, Portavaud
- Placenames
- Carrownteane 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.