Slatefield
Slatefield is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Gort na Leacan.
Parcel 4741890
- Area
- 60,706 m² (6.07 ha, 15 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 279 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Slatefield
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- GA125-144 Barrow - pond barrow
Description
On a slight rise in pastureland. On inspection in May 1983, this poorly preserved circular barrow (diam. 19m) was defined by a low bank (H 0.5m above field level) with indistinct edges. Its centre was dished and was one metre below the top of the bank. On a re-inspection in April 2010, it was noted that an ESB pole had been erected at the NW limits of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 75.4 ha
- 186 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 21,016 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slatefield, from 201 m² to 136,614 m² (13.66 ha, 33.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Slatefield 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
No planning application touches the townland of Slatefield 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- GA125-144 Barrow - pond barrow
Description
On a slight rise in pastureland. On inspection in May 1983, this poorly preserved circular barrow (diam. 19m) was defined by a low bank (H 0.5m above field level) with indistinct edges. Its centre was dished and was one metre below the top of the bank. On a re-inspection in April 2010, it was noted that an ESB pole had been erected at the NW limits of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019
- GA125-145 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a S-facing slope in marshy pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (50m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a bank from NE through S to W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A vegetation band indicates the line of an external fosse. A number of modern field walls radiate from the monument. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 April 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slatefield.
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 Slatefield, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slatefield.
- 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 Slatefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Slatefield · Gort na Leacan
- Area
- 753,807 m² (75.38 ha, 186.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Marblehill, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlough, Commons West, Loughpark, Marblehill, Moyglass, Rosseeshal
- Placenames
- Slatefield 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.