Ballinlig

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlig, from 587 m² to 222,611 m² (22.26 ha, 55.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballinlig 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinlig in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballinlig.

Recorded monuments

• SL041-001 Souterrain
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on a W-facing slope. The area is densely covered with overgrowth. There are no visible remains of the feature named 'Cave' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. A second possible souterrain (SL041-002----) lies c. 120m to S. 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

• SL041-002 Souterrain
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on a W-facing slope. The area is densely covered with overgrowth. There are no visible remains of the feature named 'Cave' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. A second possible souterrain (SL041-001----) lies c. 120m to N. 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

• SL041-003 Sweathouse
  Description

  On a W-facing slope overlooking Lough Agh to SW. Not marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The area is densely covered with vegetation and the sweathouse was not located. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL041-004 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  In a small valley, on pasture broken by limestone outcrops. A gallery (L 5.2m; Wth c. 1m) is segmented by jambs into two chambers. The entrance, at the NE, is marked by a pair of jambs but no evidence for a court survives. Single stones form the sides of the chambers and the rear of the gallery. A roofstone, apparently broken, covers part of the inner chamber. A low field bank extends N-S across the front of the gallery. There is a low mound (14m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) around the sides and back of the gallery. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 77-8, no. 123) 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL041-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an E-facing slope. A raised circular area (int. diam. 22m x 24.5m) enclosed by the remains of an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.7m; H 1.2m) which is best preserved along the W arc. A modern field boundary is built on top of the bank along the S arc. 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

• SL041-006001 Earthwork
  Description

  On a steep SW-facing slope, to SW of caves (SL041-006002-). Not visible at ground level. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an elongated rectangular raised area (c. 30m NW-SE; c. 10m NE-SW) with slightly rounded corners. 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

• SL041-010 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on the summit and towards the N end of a steep-sided ridge. A circular area (diam. 18m) defined by a moss-covered collapsed stone wall (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.65m). Remnants of internal and external facing of limestone blocks, laid in rough courses with rubble limestone fill, were noted NW-NE. The interior, which is divided by a N-S drystone wall to W of centre, is undulating and densely covered with overgrowth on the W side of the dividing wall. This cashel is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, perhaps mistakenly, as a much larger enclosure (diam. c. 50m). 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

• SL041-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating rocky pasture, on top of a drumlin. A slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 29m) enclosed by a stony bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.1m) which is best preserved along the E arc. There is an entrance (Wth 4.8m) in the N arc. A NW-SE stone wall crosses the E portion of the interior. 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 Ballinlig.

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 Ballinlig, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinlig · Baile an Loig

Area

1,061,429 m² (106.14 ha, 262.28 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmactranny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeenblike, Cuilnagleragh, Derrylea, Highwood, Kilkere, Moytirra East, Moytirra West

Placenames

Ballinlig 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.