Rathedmond
Rathedmond is a townland in the civil parish of St. John's, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Ráth Éamainn.
Parcel 5234508
- Area
- 2,634 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,763 m².
- Zoning
- M2 TC1 – town centre uses, type 1 (Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030) The objective
- Townland
- Rathedmond
Planning applications on this parcel
6 Jun 2025Conditional
WE, TRAVAC DEVELOPMENTS LTD. intend to apply for PERMISSION for development at this site, SwanPoint, Fish Quay, Sligo, Co Sligo. The development will consist of: a) 1st Floor pedestrian link between the existing Glasshouse Hotel and the SwanPoint building, circa 32m2
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560236
6 Jan 2025Conditional
including works to the existing quay wall a protected structure in the Sligo County Development Plan 2017 – 2023 Record of Protected Structures. The development will consist of: a) Amendments of the unfinished Swanpoint building previously approved under planning ref 0470099 to provide 53 no. hotel bedrooms in place of previously approved apartments and completion of 32 no. apartments, b) Change of use of ground floor apartments to retail unit, and completion of ground floor restaurant unit. c) Retention of as-constructed elevations. d) Ground and first floor extensions circa. 231 sqm to form proposed hotel access and extension to restaurant unit. e) Proposed 8th-floor apartment mezzanine level circa. 34 sqm. f) Refurbishment of the existing quay wall a protected structure as per the Sligo County Development Plan (2017-2023) g) Extension of 1 no. existing stair core and associated link corridor. h) Proposed rooftop services including heat pumps and solar panels. i) Proposed landscape plan and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560004
19 Dec 2024N/a
WE, TRAVAC DEVELOPMENTS LTD. intend to apply for PERMISSION / RETENTION PERMISSION for development at this site, SwanPoint, Fish Quay, Sligo, Co Sligo. Including works to the existing quay wall a protected structure in the Sligo County Development Plan 2017 – 2023 Record of Protected Structures. The development will consist of: a) Amendments of the unfinished Swanpoint building previously approved under planning ref 0470099 to provide 53 no. hotel bedrooms in place of previously approved apartments and completion of 32 no. apartments, b) Change of use of ground floor apartments to Retail unit, and completion of ground floor Restaurant unit. c) Retention of as-constructed elevations d) Ground and first floor extensions circa. 231 sqm to form proposed Hotel access and extension to restaurant unit. e) Proposed 8th-floor Apartment Mezzanine level circa. 34 sqm. f) Refurbishment of the existing quay wall a protected structure as per the Sligo County Development Plan (2017-2023) g) Extension of 1 no. existing stair core and associated link corridor. h) Proposed rooftop services including heat pumps and solar panels. i) Proposed landscape plan and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460488
31 Oct 2019Conditional
Development at this site of 0.24 hectares at Swanpoint, including works to the existing quay wall a protected structure in the Sligo County Development Plan 2017-2023 Record of Protected Structures. The development will consist of: a) amendments and completion of unfinished Swanpoint building previously approved under planning ref 0470099 to provide 54 no. hotel bedrooms and circa. 2,946 m2 of office space in place of the previously approved 64 no. apartments and 2 no. retail units, b) retention of as constructed elevations, c) ground and first floor extensions circa. 136 m2 to form part of the proposed office space, d) new 2nd floor link between existing hotel and Swanpoint building circa 37 m2, e) refurbishment of the existing quay wall a protected structure as per the Sligo County Development Plan 2017-2023), f) extension of 2 no. existing staircores and associated link corridors, g) proposed roof top services including heat pumps and solar panels, h) proposed landscape plan and all associated site works. The documents to be submitted as part of this planning application will include a Natura Impact Statement.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 19446
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) SAC 000627
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) 000627
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 40 recorded monuments.
- SL014-065 Historic town
Description
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- SL014-065003 Hospital
Description
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- SL014-065006 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Description
The following details have been extracted from the introductory essay in Gallagher and Legg (2012) to which the reader is referred for further information: ‘There is no evidence of substantial habitation [at Sligo], however, until the 1240s when the AngloNorman baron Maurice Fitzgerald, a member of the Kildare Geraldines, constructed a castle in order to control the roads, the bridge and access from the sea. Fitzgerald had been granted large tracts of land in upper Connacht after 1235 and his prime focus was to secure the crossing over the Garvoge and to encourage economic development on his manor of Sligo. It is possible that he replaced the existing wooden bridge with a stone one. Sligo Castle immediately overlooked and secured the bridge, and the two were intimately connected. Fitzgerald used it as a base from which to attack the territory of the O’Donnells to the north in Tír Conaill.’ ‘The repeated destruction and reconstruction of Sligo Castle is symptomatic of the fact that its possession was contested between various Gaelic and Anglo-Norman families. Following a period of dispute between two AngloNorman families, the castle was handed over to Richard de Burgo; he also obtained the manor of Sligo in 1299 as part of a settlement with the Fitzgeralds, who then left Sligo for good. The castle was substantially rebuilt by de Burgo, then lord of Connacht, and may have incorporated remnants of the earlier one built by Maurice Fitzgerald. The location of successive castles at Sligo was a small rise overlooking the harbour, bridge and town in what is now Quay Street, on the site of the nineteenth-century Town Hall.’ ‘By the end of the fourteenth century the O’Connors emerged as keepers of Sligo Castle.’ ‘When Sligo was visited by Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland, in 1566 he noted that the castle was ‘fair and the greatest of any that we have seen in an Irishman’s possession’.’ ‘By 1584 Sir Richard Bingham, in his capacity of chief commissioner of Connacht and Thomond, had reduced the power of the O’Connors Sligo and had fortified the castle with crown forces. A map from 1587 clearly shows a castle with four towers defending the river at Sligo. The importance of the crown’s possession of the castle was re-emphasised in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was blown north from the English Channel and came down the north-west coast of Ireland. William Taaffe was made sheriff of Co. Sligo and took charge of the castle that same year. Bingham reported to the lord deputy that, before leaving, O’Donnell had ‘much broken’ Sligo Castle and the priory. At the end of the year, it was decided that the castle should be restored by the former rebels, ‘nine principal gentlemen of Galway and Roscommon’, and in 1589 it was remitted to Donough O’Connor. Sligo was considered the key to Connacht and, by placing a strong garrison there, it was believed that the crown might pacify Connacht and prevent O’Donnell from returning to the province. A contemporary map of the Sligo area from 1589 shows a roughly sketched castellated structure with two towers, which may be an illustration of the old castle. In June 1595 a cousin of Bingham’s was murdered in the castle and a rebel, Ulick Burke, the first earl of Clanricard, handed it over to O’Donnell. Following Bingham’s attempt to retake the castle, O’Donnell demolished it ‘so that he did not leave a stone of it on a stone, for fear the English might take it without his knowledge’. In 1596, however, Donough O’Connor was given custody of the castle and he endeavoured to rebuild it, although he had meagre resources. Three years later John Baxter issued a declaration concerning the rebuilding of Sligo Castle. In all likelihood the castle was in an extremely ruinous state and untenable. It was described as being ‘in ruins’ and the town burnt in 1602 and there is no sign of it on Baxter’s map of c. 1600.’ ‘In the late 1650s there were also large numbers of soldiers garrisoned in the town and another quadrilateral fort, known later as the Stone Fort, was built on the site of the old de Burgo castle to accommodate them.' (see SL014-065007-). (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 1-3, 14). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065007 Bastioned fort
Description
Built on the site of the existing de Burgo caslte (SL014-065006-) this bastioned fort was constructed in the late 1650s to house a garrison. It is referred to as the ‘new fort’ in 1659 and again in 1663, although it appears that it was not then properly finished since the bastions were left hollow. When completed, the Stone Fort comprised high stone curtain walls, flanked by four corner bastions. Phillips’s view of c. 1685 shows a substantial castellated structure with the four bastions rising above the adjoining curtain walls. Repaired at the time of the Williamite War in 1689 part of the site was leased to the Crown for use as a barracks in 1700. It was damaged by storm in 1757 and described as the ‘Old fort leased’ in 1781. Part of it was converted to stores in 1800 and the site was purchased by the corporation in 1861. It was partly demolished when Quay Street was widened in 1861 and a Town Hall was constructed on the site in 1865. Remains this fort were uncovered in the course of excavations undertaken on the site in 2002 (licence number 02E0651; Halpin 2002). (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 3, 14). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065008 Religious house - Dominican friars
Description
Located on the S bank of the River Garavogue, c. 500m from the river estuary, in Sligo Town, in the townland of Abbeyquarter North. Sligo Dominican friary is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 189). It was established in 1252 by Maurice Fitz Gerald, 2nd Lord Offaly, for the Dominican Friars, and dedicated to the Holy Cross. The Annals of Loch Cé record for the year 1253: ‘A monastery was erected and a cemetery consecrated for the Friars Preachers at Sligech’ (Hennessy 1871, 403). Having taken part in the conquest of Connacht in 1235, Fitz Gerald built a castle (SL014-065006-) in 1245 and established the settlement that would become the town of Sligo. Like most mendicant foundations, the Sligo friars benefitted from both Anglo-Norman and Gaelic Irish patronage. The Annals of the Four Masters record that the friary was destroyed in 1414, following a fire started by a candle, but was rebuilt two years later in 1416 ‘by Friar Brian, son of Dermot MacDonough’ (O’Donovan 1856, 817 & 825). An inducement to fund the rebuild was offered by Pope John XXIII in a papal bull issued in 1415, granting an indulgence to penitents who ‘on the feast of the Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin, and on that of St. Patrick the Confessor, visit the church and give alms for the repair of it and the house of the Friars Preachers of Sligo (Scligie)...whose said church and house, in which were lately twenty friars, have been recently burned.’ (Cal. Papal Letters, vol. 6, 484). Irish lords buried in the friary include Tigernan, son of Ualgarc Ua Ruairc, king of Breifni, in 1418 (MacCarthy 1895, 75), and Brian MacDonough, Lord of Tirrerrill, in 1454 (Coleman 1902, 98). After the Dissolution of monasteries, the O’Conor Sligo, patrons of the friars, pleaded with Queen Elizabeth for the friary to be preserved, and in 1568 she agreed, as she was assured that the friars had become secular priests. An inquisition in 1585 lists among the possessions of the friary, a fishing weir and a quarter of land called the Fryer quarter (Coleman 1902, 98), the boundaries of which survive in the townlands of Abbeyquarter North and Abbeyquarter South, to the S and E of the friary. In 1595 Richard Bingham, Governor of Connacht, took up quarters in the friary, and stripped out its timber fittings to construct siege engines with which to attack Sligo castle, then held by Red Hugh O’Donnell’s men. James I granted the friary and its lands to Wm. Taaffe, who had been appointed sheriff of Co. Sligo in 1588. A single friar remained at this stage, but in 1608 Father Daniel O’Crean arrived from Spain to establish a new Dominican community in Sligo; by 1622 there were ten friars, and in 1627 a Provincial Chapter was held. However, in the course of the war of 1641, Colonel Sir Frederick Hamilton marched on Sligo, burned the friary and killed the friars. The Dominican community later reformed, and there were five friars in Sligo in 1703 (Coleman 1902, 99-100). In 1865 a new Dominican convent was completed, situated on Dominick Street, just a short walk from the remains of the medieval friary. The remains of the friary include a nave and chancel church, with central tower, part of the south lateral aisle and the transept or chapel; and to N of the church, the cloister, the E range, and part of the N range. The chancel and nave retains some of their original 13th-century character, but most of the other standing buildings and structures, such as the tower, S aisle and chapel, the cloister, and the domestic ranges, are 15th century or later in date, many probably dating to the phase of reconstruction that followed the 1414 fire. The abbey is noteworthy for the rare survival of the 15th-century sculpted high altar, the rood screen and the reader’s desk; also for its very fine cloister, several striking decorative and figurative carvings that enliven the grey stones of the buildings, as well as a number of fine 16th- and 17th-century funerary monuments. The buildings are constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble masonry, apart from the nave arcade and tower pillars, which are of dressed limestone blocks. In the church, the W wall and W end of the N wall of the nave (int. c. 17m E−W; 6.55 N−S) are gone. The N wall of the nave retains three 13th-century, double pointed lancets, the middle one partly blocked by the 1506 O’Crean canopy tomb (SL014-065027-). Traces of plaster survive towards the W end of the N wall. Amongst the graveslabs on display in the nave, four (SL014-065035-; SL014-065036-; SL014-065037-; SL014-065038-) appear to be late medieval in date. The nave is separated from the S aisle by an arcade of three pointed arches, resting on two large, elongated octagonal pillars with moulded bases and capitals and two engaged semi-octagonal pillars. The arcade is a 15th-century insertion in the 13th-century S wall of the nave, which is clearly marked by a string course framing the arcade. The original S and W wall of the aisle are gone and have been replaced by modern walls. At the E end of the aisle is a round-headed archway with an internal rib, giving access into the S chapel (int. c. 9.50m N–S and c. 6m E–W). The E wall of the chapel survives, but little remains of the S and W walls. In the E wall of the chapel, there is an arched altar recess towards the N end of the wall, and remnants of another to the S, but the windows they contained are gone. There is a small piscina niche in the SW corner of the N altar recess, and an aumbry adjacent to S. At the S end of the E wall there are remnants of a window with wide splay, and another aumbry. A grave slab (SL014-065039-), on display on the N wall of the chapel, is probably late medieval date. At the E end of the nave is a rood screen structure (int.: 5.8m N–S; 1.47m E–W), which post-dates the tower. This is a rare survival. The structure originally consisted of two arcades of three pointed arches, supporting a rib-vault of three bays and a gallery above. It would have been fitted with screens to hide the chancel from view, opened only at certain moments of the liturgy, such as during the Elevation of the Host. The rood, a large representation of the crucifixion, would have been mounted above the central screen, facing towards the nave. The engaged columns at the four corners of the structure survive, and the W arcade has been restored, with two octagonal columns featuring moulded bases and capitals. In the N and S walls are arched recesses, which may have served as secondary altars. The S recess has an aumbry in its internal W wall. Immediately to E of the rood screen is the central bell tower, supported at W and E by tall, broad pointed arches. The internal ribs on the E side have simple chamfered conical stops, but on the W side they terminate in elaborately sculpted corbels in the form of a man’s head to S and woman’s head to the N, both in extravagant 15th-century headdress, the man also sporting a luxuriant moustache. Above the male head an angel bears an escutcheon; above the female head an escutcheon is held by a pair of angels in intricately feathered garb. The heads are most likely representations of the benefactors who funded the construction of the tower. In the N wall beneath the tower, there is a doorway leading to the cloister; it is slightly impeded by the NW pillar of the tower. In the S wall there is a pointed lancet, the west-most in the row of 13th-century windows that lit the chancel; this window and the doorway indicate the original W extent of the chancel prior to the construction of the tower in the 15th century. Underneath the lancet in the S wall are three 17-century sculpted wall monuments (SL014-065029-; SL014-065030-; SL014-065031-). Above the arches, the tower tapers into a two-storey square belfry. At first floor level there are rectangular single lights in the W and E walls, a large pointed light in the N wall and a cinquefoiled ogee-headed single light with concave spandrels in the S wall. At second floor lev
- SL014-065010 Church
Description
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- SL014-065014 Bastioned fort
Description
The following details are derived from Gallagher and Legg (2012, 14) and Bolton, Dargan and Roche (2017) to which the reader is referred. The fort, known as ‘Green Fort’, was probably built by Conyers Clifford in 1599 on the site of earlier ringfort, Rath-da-bhritog. It is shown as a regular earthwork with four corner bastions on the north side of the Garvoge River on Baxter’s map c.1600. It is also marked on the Down Survey maps of the barony of Carbury and the parish of Calrie dating from c.1655-8. In 1656 it was described as an earthwork in poor condition and Thomas Phillips represents it as an abandoned earthwork in his prospect of Sligo drawn c. 1685. The Green Fort was incorporated into a network of defensive earthworks which enveloped Sligo town during the Williamite wars (1688-91) that also included the 'Stone Fort' (built late 1650s; see SL014-065007-) on the site of old de Burgo castle (SL014-065006-), a redoubt (SL014-065028-) and series of enveloping earthen ramparts with bastions. When the town was attacked by Brigadier Patrick Sarsfield and his Jacobite forces in early October 1689 the commanding Williamite officer, Colonel Thomas Lloyd, abandoned the town and brought his troops to the Green Fort from where they were able to escape to Enniskillen under cover of darkness (see SL014-065024-). After the Jacobites took Sligo, Colonel Henry Luttrell, with the aid of Robert Burton 'his Majesty's engineer', refortified the Green Fort and added additional outworks. The fort was incorporated into the extensive earthen defences which surrounded the town. A plan of the works drawn at this time (see attached) describes the fort as ‘newly fortified with a good Chemien, Court, and Glacis, well palisaded’, having a well ‘which is continually full of water’. In June 1690, Sir Tadhg O’Regan was appointed commander of the Jacobite forces at Sligo. He brought ordnance from the town to strengthen the Green Fort and made improvements to the town’s defences. Sligo was strategically important to the Jacobites, as control of the town secured north Connacht and provided them with a platform from which they could raid into Ulster. By the summer of 1691 Williamite encroachment on Sligo seemed inevitable after the success of their campaign that had seen the fall of Athlone in June, and the Jacobite defeat at Aughrim on 12 July. These victories early in the campaign season meant that the main Williamite force could now advance on the Jacobite strongholds of Connacht and Clare. On Saturday 12th September 1691 the Green Fort was attached by Williamite forces under Colonel John Michelburne who had noted that while Sligo had been reinforced, only a single company of grenadiers was stationed at the fort. Michelburne and his forces advanced rapidly to secure the defensive ditch and broke into the fort, causing the defenders to escape by jumping over the parapets and retreating to the Stone Fort (SL014-065007-) in the town. O'Regan was besieged in the Stone Fort, and with the arrival of further Williamite troops, he negotiated a surrender marching away with his garrison and two cannons on Monday 14 September. O'Reagan handed the keys of the Stone Fort to Michelburne who was appointed Governor of Sligo. The Williamite forces took possession of the Green Fort which had ‘sixteen other cannons mounted in the wall, and thirty barrels of gunpowder in the magazines, as well as stores of all kinds.’ The fort appears to have been abandoned relatively soon after the war. It was in a ruinous condition by 1739, by which time its military function had been superseded by the barracks erected in the early 1700s in the town. Forthill House was built adjacent to the site in the mid-eighteenth century and from this period onwards, the Green Fort appears to have lain abandoned and unused. It is not marked on Taylor and Skinners 1777 map of Sligo or William Larkin’s 1810 map. It is named the ‘Green Fort’ on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch map (surveyed 1837) and on all later editions and revisions where it is shown as an isolated but well-defined rectilinear fortification with salient-angled corner bastions. The monument lies on raised ground c. 30m north of Connaughton Road (R286) adjacent to the entrance of Sligo University Hospital. The remains are those of an earthen artillery fortification measuring approximately 86m N-S by 90m E-W externally, and 45m by 49m E-W internally, standing c. 3.9m high at its maximum, enclosing an area of approximately 7.7 acres/3100m2. The fort comprises a raised rectangular platform, with salient-angled corner bastions, encircled by angled earthen slopes and ditches. There are no standing remains or internal features visible within the fort (entrances, covered way, gun emplacements, well etc.) and there is no surface indication of outer defensive works. The monument now forms part of a field system and has no regular access path. The south and eastern sides of the fort including the south-east and south-west bastions feature mature hedgerows. The interior of the fort, the west and north banks, and the north-east and north-west bastions show grass cover, with wet boggy ground conditions found within the northern ditch and along the east side of the fort. A later field boundary intersects the south-west bastion at the south-west corner of the site. (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 14; Bolton, Dargan and Roche 2017) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1983). SL014-065014-_01.jpg Henry Luttrell's 1689 plan of the town and forts of Sligo, as re-drawn by Wood-Martin (1889, ii, facing 134) showing the Green Fort (arrowed), with the 'Stone Fort' (B; SL014-065007-) and the redoubt (O; SL014-065026-). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065023 Cross - Market cross
Description
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- SL014-065027 Wall monument
Description
Located in the church of Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-064008-), set in the N wall of the nave. A canopy tomb, dated 1506, erected for members of the O’Crean family. The O’Creans were a wealthy merchant family from Donegal, who came to Sligo in the late 15th century, and became patrons of the friars. This tomb is typical of the period, and a similar example can be found in Strade Dominican friary (MA070-067003-) in Co. Mayo. It is comprised of a tall, pointed canopy arch (H c. 4m) with elegant, finely carved tracery, only the upper section of which survives (H c. 4m), which encloses a chest tomb. The front panel (Wth 2.56m; H 1.20m; D 0.68m) of the tomb is carved with a row of nine religious figures, within miniature quatrefoiled ogee-headed arches framed by crocketed pinnacles. The ogees are richly decorated with vine leaf carvings. The central figure is Christ on the cross. The figures arrayed on Christ’s left are (L to R): St Dominic; St Catherine of Alexandria, robed and crowned, with a sword in her right hand and holding a circle against her breast, identified as her wheel; a female figure in a long belted gown carrying a staff, possibly representing a pilgrim; and the Virgin. To the right of Christ are: St John the Apostle; St Michael the Archangel, with his raised sword and shield; St Peter the Apostle, holding the keys to Heaven; and the figure of a bishop holding a processional cross, his hand raised in benediction. Above the figures, directly beneath the slab of the tomb chest, is a Latin inscription, which reads: ‘Here lies Cormac O'Craian and McSehon young Faraengasa his wife, the year 1506 (MCCCCCCVI)’ (Wood-Martin 1889, 70). Set in the back wall of the canopy is an armorial stone (SL014-065043-), which is a later insertion. Attached images: SL014-065027-_01.JPG O'Crean canopy tomb SL014-065027-_02.JPG carved front panel of tomb SL014-065027-_03.JPG carved figures (L side) SL014-065027-_04.JPG carved figures (R side) Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 7 May 2020
- SL014-065028 Wall monument
Description
Located in the church of Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), at the E end of the S wall of the chancel. It is set within the eastern-most of the chancel’s eight 13th-century lancet windows. This impressive wall monument, carved in the Renaissance style, was commissioned in 1624 by Lady Eleanor Butler to commemorate her husband Sir Donogh O’Connor Sligo, who died in 1609. It is comprised of three sections, surmounted by a representation of the Crucifixion. The upper section bears the sculpted crest and coat of arms of the O’Connor family, flanked by two figures, one bearing a key, the other a sword, possibly representing St Peter and St Paul (Wood-Martin 1889, 70). The two figures stand on small projecting corbels. A projecting hood-moulding separates this section from the larger middle section. Winged cherubs’ heads are carved above and below the middle section, at each corner. This section is dedicated to a representation of Lady Eleanor and her husband, who face each other, kneeling in prayer on either side of a small gabled altar or reliquary. Sir Donogh, on the left, is in full 17th-century armour, with his helmet placed on the floor behind him. Lady Eleanor is wearing a collarette typical of the period, and a long gown with a cape, as well as a rosary around her neck, and on her head a tiara or diadem. Each figure is placed within a round-headed arch, resting on the altar or reliquary in the centre, and on pillars ornamented with trophies. On the pillar to the left of Sir Donogh are a drum, flag and axe, and a shield, sword and musket. On the pillar to the right of Lady Eleanor are an open book, with a spade and torch over a censer or thurible (Wood-Martin 1889, 70). These items are most likely attributes meant to symbolize the lives they lived: prowess on the battlefield for Sir Donogh, and engagement in pious activities for Lady Eleanor. The lowermost section of the monument features a winged hour-glass surrounded by elaborate carvings of stylised flowers, foliage, scrolls and grapes, flanked on either side are two skulls. Above the monument is a small wooden canopy, installed by the OPW to protect it from the elements. Attached images: SL014-065028-_01.JPG Butler wall monument SL014-065028-_02.JPG Central panel Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 7 May 2020
And 30 more.
Architectural heritage
- Gates/railings/walls, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Fragment of quay wall, built c. 1820. Located under modern hotel building on west bank of Garavogue River north of Hyde Bridge and the commercial centre of Sligo Town. Squared-and-snecked battered rock-faced limestone walling.
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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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1099 (ZIP).
- 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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- Area
- 83.5 ha
- 206 acres
- Land parcels
- 329
- registered freehold, median 215 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- eRES – existing and infill residential use
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
329 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathedmond, from 4 m² to 96,087 m² (9.61 ha, 23.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 215 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2TC1 – town centre uses, type 1 (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 57 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3TC2 – town centre uses, type 2 (District, neighbourhood centre)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Sept 2026N/a
Revisions to an existing elevation treatment including a decorative elevational painting to the front façade of an existing commercial unit of approximately 7.5m in height.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660391
22 Sept 2026N/a
Retention Permission and Permission for development at LMS Express, Finisklin Road, Rathedmond Td., Co. Sligo, F91 N5RE. The development consists of revisions to the development previously permitted under Planning Reference PL24/60499. RETENTION Permission is sought for: (i) the enlargement of the site boundary to the southeast and the associated 2 m-high boundary fencing, (ii) the provision of concrete hardstanding within the enlarged site area, including connection to the existing private surface-water drainage network, (iii) additional 2no. fuel pumps and 3no. canopy support columns, (iv) the incorporation of an existing entrance serving the adjacent site into the enlarged site boundary to provide access to the additional fuel pumps, (v) site lighting, including 3no. floodlights and, (vi) 2no. windows on the southern elevation of the existing building. PERMISSION is sought for: (i) a new canopy and associated signage over the additional fuel pumps and canopy columns, together with all associated site development works.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660388
28 Aug 2026N/a
change of use of existing ground floor vacant unit No.4 previously granted permission for use as retail/commercial space under PL 03/70185 to use as Community Centre with associated works all at Unit 4, The Old Mill, Union Street, Rathedmond, Sligo. The building is a Protected structure RPS no. 224.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660347
7 Aug 2026Conditional
Permission for: (1) Proposed elevation changes to existing dwelling house consisting of a new window to the front elevation in place of existing garage doors and windows, and a new window and a new double door to the side elevation in place of the existing single doors; and (2) Proposed single-storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, together with all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660323
12 Jun 2026N/a
The Painting of a decorative mural on the exterior front facade of the existing commercial business property.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 264
2 Jun 2026Conditional
conversion of attic to living accommodation and associated alterations to north, south and east elevations all to existing semi-detached dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660203
2 Jun 2026Conditional
conversion of attic to living accommodation and associated alterations to south, west and east elevations all to existing semi-detached dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660204
11 May 2026Conditional
The development is for alteration, renovation and extension to the existing hostel (Register Reference 46) including Change of Use to a residential housing development comprising of 9 no. single-storey one-bed apartments, 2 no. duplex one bed apartments and 2 no. duplex two-bed apartments (13 apartments in total). The proposal includes partial demolitions (modern outbuildings and sheds) and alterations. New, terraced two-storey and three-storey extensions with pitched roofs are proposed to replace the removed outbuildings. Site renewable energy measures are planned to include the provision of solar panels. New landscaping for amenity areas, pedestrian access with planted privacy buffers; common bike parking and bin storage. The development includes for connections to existing services (including existing mains drainage), temporary construction signage, new building signage, minor relocation of street lighting and all associated ancillary site development works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660178
2 Apr 2026Conditional
change of use from restaurant to office
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660123
24 Mar 2026Conditional
permission for conversion of attic to living accommodation and associated alterations to north, south and west elevations all to existing semi-detached dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660109
10 Mar 2026Conditional
Permission for change of use of existing ground floor vacant unit No. 4 previously granted permission for use as retail/commercial space under PL 03/70185 to use as office space with associated works. The building is a Protected structure RPS no. 224.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660098
26 Feb 2026N/a
Change of use of existing ground floor vacant unit No.4 previously granted permission for use as retail/commercial space under PL 03/70185 to use as office space with associated works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660079
18 Jan 2026Conditional
alterations to the existing dwelling house, including new roof windows, gable windows and the conversion of attic space to living accommodation
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660011
13 Nov 2025Refused
a) 6th floor, extensions to two previously granted apartments, circa 48 sqm b) 7th floor, an additional two number, two-bedroom apartments, circa 175 sqm c) 8th floor, an additional two number, two-bedroom apartments, circa 157.5 sqm
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560475
29 Oct 2025Conditional
(1) Extension and change of use from existing light industrial (timber storage warehouse) to recreational facility including provision of new changing facilities/toilets, storage room, cleaning store, office reception and 7 internal and 3 external padel ball courts. (2) Replace existing building signage to north elevation and provision of signage to west elevation. (3) Reposition the existing builder's yard entrance, including the installation of a new fence within the existing builder's yard. Provide new car parking and cycle spaces including all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560449
29 Oct 2025Conditional
for change of use from existing 3-storey commercial building to a 6-bedroom residential dwelling. Construction works to include window replacement, internal refurbishment and partition works and all ancillary site works. A Protected Structure (RPS 142SE, NIAH reg: 32007023)
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560450
19 Aug 2025Conditional
Permission for retention of existing single storey extension to side and rear of dwelling house comprising utility, WC, shed and store areas with all associated works at 14 Rathedmond Estate, Sligo.F91F9RV
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560349
15 Jul 2025Conditional
Planning permission to retain a single storey extension to front of dwelling house and for planning permission to construct a single storey extension to side of dwelling house
Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2560290
13 Jun 2025Conditional
Bus Eireann parking yard, Michael Conlon Road (n4) , rathedmond, sligo town, co. sligo. this application relates to a proposed development adjoining the curtilage of protected structures listed as RPS 101SE and 218SE in the record of protected structures. The development will consist of the proposed extension of the existing bus parking yard and the re-development of the existing yard to provide in total 20 no EV charging bays, 20 no parking bays for coaches for 15m long coaches., 40 no bus bays on site in total. provision of 9 no staff car parking spaces, and all associated siteworks. The yard extension is approximately 0.4092 hectares. the proposal will also include 1no 15m x 3.74m free-standing single-storey prefabricated insulated metal clad steel structure 56 square metres comprising of electrical equipment rooms to the western side of the site. We also propose to construct a single storey ESB sub-station together with MV and LV rooms to the western boundary of the site; c43.5 square metres together with various siteworks to include yard lighting, charging pedestal guns, public lighting standards. access will be primarily via the Michael Conlon road. We also seek permission to construct a single storey modular building for staff accommodation c. 96 sq m. New boundary treatment to include new powder coated painted steel palisade fencing to the western and southern boundaries. This proposal also seeks to connect into public mains sewer.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560246
6 Jun 2025Conditional
WE, TRAVAC DEVELOPMENTS LTD. intend to apply for PERMISSION for development at this site, SwanPoint, Fish Quay, Sligo, Co Sligo. The development will consist of: a) 1st Floor pedestrian link between the existing Glasshouse Hotel and the SwanPoint building, circa 32m2
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560236
28 May 2025Conditional
Permission for retention of the installation of heat pump units (fitted adjacent to entrance door of each unit) to serve individual apartment no.s 2-14 inclusive, 16-19 inclusive and no. 21 with associated works all at The Old Mill Apartments, Union Street, Rathedmond, Sligo. The building is a Protected structure RPS no. 224.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560222
28 May 2025Conditional
Permission for change of use of existing vacant units previously granted permission for use as commercial units under PL 03/70185 for use as short stay residential letting with associated works all at The Old Mill Apartments, Union Street, Rathedmond, Sligo. The building is a Protected structure RPS no. 224.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560224
8 May 2025Conditional
Permission for retention of window installed to front elevation of existing dwelling house serving kitchen area and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560183
29 Apr 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for the proposed change of use as the following - 1). To retain the change of use of a former Public House (disused for more than five years) previously known as TD’s Bar that had two floors of residential accommodation above. 2). Now in use as a Family Hub comprising of residential accommodation offering a secure and stable environment for family units that are experiencing homelessness 3). All other associated site development works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560161
16 Apr 2025N/a
We, White Sand Consultancy Limited, are applying to Sligo County Council for Retention Permission for the proposed change of use as the following - 1). To retain the change of use of a former Public House (disused for more than five years) previously known as TD’s Bar that had two floors of residential accommodation above. 2). Now in use as a Family Hub comprising of residential accommodation offering a secure and stable environment for family units that are experiencing homelessness 3). All other associated site development works at Lynn’s Place, Sligo Town, County Sligo.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560147
The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.
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 Area of Conservation: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) SAC 000627
- Special Protection Area: Cummeen Strand SPA 004035
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) 000627
Recorded monuments
- SL014-059 Fulacht fia
Description
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- SL014-060 Fulacht fia
Description
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- SL014-061 Fulacht fia
Description
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- SL014-062 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- SL014-065006 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Description
The following details have been extracted from the introductory essay in Gallagher and Legg (2012) to which the reader is referred for further information: ‘There is no evidence of substantial habitation [at Sligo], however, until the 1240s when the AngloNorman baron Maurice Fitzgerald, a member of the Kildare Geraldines, constructed a castle in order to control the roads, the bridge and access from the sea. Fitzgerald had been granted large tracts of land in upper Connacht after 1235 and his prime focus was to secure the crossing over the Garvoge and to encourage economic development on his manor of Sligo. It is possible that he replaced the existing wooden bridge with a stone one. Sligo Castle immediately overlooked and secured the bridge, and the two were intimately connected. Fitzgerald used it as a base from which to attack the territory of the O’Donnells to the north in Tír Conaill.’ ‘The repeated destruction and reconstruction of Sligo Castle is symptomatic of the fact that its possession was contested between various Gaelic and Anglo-Norman families. Following a period of dispute between two AngloNorman families, the castle was handed over to Richard de Burgo; he also obtained the manor of Sligo in 1299 as part of a settlement with the Fitzgeralds, who then left Sligo for good. The castle was substantially rebuilt by de Burgo, then lord of Connacht, and may have incorporated remnants of the earlier one built by Maurice Fitzgerald. The location of successive castles at Sligo was a small rise overlooking the harbour, bridge and town in what is now Quay Street, on the site of the nineteenth-century Town Hall.’ ‘By the end of the fourteenth century the O’Connors emerged as keepers of Sligo Castle.’ ‘When Sligo was visited by Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland, in 1566 he noted that the castle was ‘fair and the greatest of any that we have seen in an Irishman’s possession’.’ ‘By 1584 Sir Richard Bingham, in his capacity of chief commissioner of Connacht and Thomond, had reduced the power of the O’Connors Sligo and had fortified the castle with crown forces. A map from 1587 clearly shows a castle with four towers defending the river at Sligo. The importance of the crown’s possession of the castle was re-emphasised in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was blown north from the English Channel and came down the north-west coast of Ireland. William Taaffe was made sheriff of Co. Sligo and took charge of the castle that same year. Bingham reported to the lord deputy that, before leaving, O’Donnell had ‘much broken’ Sligo Castle and the priory. At the end of the year, it was decided that the castle should be restored by the former rebels, ‘nine principal gentlemen of Galway and Roscommon’, and in 1589 it was remitted to Donough O’Connor. Sligo was considered the key to Connacht and, by placing a strong garrison there, it was believed that the crown might pacify Connacht and prevent O’Donnell from returning to the province. A contemporary map of the Sligo area from 1589 shows a roughly sketched castellated structure with two towers, which may be an illustration of the old castle. In June 1595 a cousin of Bingham’s was murdered in the castle and a rebel, Ulick Burke, the first earl of Clanricard, handed it over to O’Donnell. Following Bingham’s attempt to retake the castle, O’Donnell demolished it ‘so that he did not leave a stone of it on a stone, for fear the English might take it without his knowledge’. In 1596, however, Donough O’Connor was given custody of the castle and he endeavoured to rebuild it, although he had meagre resources. Three years later John Baxter issued a declaration concerning the rebuilding of Sligo Castle. In all likelihood the castle was in an extremely ruinous state and untenable. It was described as being ‘in ruins’ and the town burnt in 1602 and there is no sign of it on Baxter’s map of c. 1600.’ ‘In the late 1650s there were also large numbers of soldiers garrisoned in the town and another quadrilateral fort, known later as the Stone Fort, was built on the site of the old de Burgo castle to accommodate them.' (see SL014-065007-). (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 1-3, 14). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065007 Bastioned fort
Description
Built on the site of the existing de Burgo caslte (SL014-065006-) this bastioned fort was constructed in the late 1650s to house a garrison. It is referred to as the ‘new fort’ in 1659 and again in 1663, although it appears that it was not then properly finished since the bastions were left hollow. When completed, the Stone Fort comprised high stone curtain walls, flanked by four corner bastions. Phillips’s view of c. 1685 shows a substantial castellated structure with the four bastions rising above the adjoining curtain walls. Repaired at the time of the Williamite War in 1689 part of the site was leased to the Crown for use as a barracks in 1700. It was damaged by storm in 1757 and described as the ‘Old fort leased’ in 1781. Part of it was converted to stores in 1800 and the site was purchased by the corporation in 1861. It was partly demolished when Quay Street was widened in 1861 and a Town Hall was constructed on the site in 1865. Remains this fort were uncovered in the course of excavations undertaken on the site in 2002 (licence number 02E0651; Halpin 2002). (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 3, 14). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-261 Fulacht fia
Description
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- SL014-264 Fulacht fia
Description
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Architectural heritage
- MacDiarmada Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey stone railway station building, built c. 1860, with enclosed platforms attached to north and platform walls projecting seven bays to west and eight-bays to east of central station building. Platform to east set on battered and buttressed basement plinth terminating in five-bay blank east elevation with middle three bays raised between horizontal giant consoles. Glazed entrance porch added c. 2000. Roof to station building hidden behind unpainted smooth-rendered parapet. Unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks and moulded cast-iron rainwater goods. Steel-truss multiple-pitch platform roof originally glazed now exposed to elements. Uncoursed squared rubble masonry walling, moulded limestone strings cornices and quoins. Square-headed window openings to station building, lugged rendered surrounds to first floor, simple moulded rendered surrounds to ground floor, limestone sills to ground floor, painted timber two-over-two sash windows. Square-headed door opening with cut limestone surround with segmental pediment supported on scrolled console brackets, hardwood panelled double doors. Further square-headed door openings with simple moulded surrounds to east and west elevations. Interior re-modelled c. 1925, glazed tiling to walls, green glazed corniced surrounds to door and window openings. Fixed frame timber windows and timber and glazed doors to waiting area c.2000. Polyester powder coated aluminium-framed glazed porch on rock-faced coursed ashlar plinth approached by limestone steps from east and ramp from west. Set on elevated site overlooking Sligo town with forecourt parking area to front and station railway yard to west.
- House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace multi-bay two-storey with attic smooth-rendered house, built c. 1860. Gable-fronted projecting full-height bay to front (east) elevation, splayed corner to south containing canopied entrance. One of a group of four. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, painted timber projecting barge boards carried on timber brackets to bay, cast-iron half-round gutters on painted timber projecting eaves fascia on paired timber corbels. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth-rendered walls on moulded plinth. Oculus window to attic with painted brick head, painted stone sill, painted timber horizontally-pivoted casement window. Segmental-headed window openings to ground and first floors, painted brick dressings to first floor, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sash windows to first floor and two-over-one to ground floor. Narrow round-headed window opening between entrance and projecting bay, flush splayed sill, painted timber one-over-one sash window. Segmental-headed door opening with chamfered reveals, painted timber six-panel door, plain-glazed fanlight, decorative painted timber gabled bracketted canopy with slate roof. Two stone steps to street, cast-iron boot scraper to second step. House set back slightly from street. Dressed limestone gate posts adjoin to south.
- House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey with attic smooth-rendered house, built c. 1860. One of a group of four. Pitched slate roof, clay crested ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron half-round gutters on painted timber projecting eaves fascia on paired timber corbels. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth-rendered walls on projecting plinth. Painted timber casement window to flat-roofed dormer. Segmental-headed window openings to ground and first floors, painted brick arches, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with chamfered reveals, painted brick arch, painted timber struck-moulded six-panel door, plain-glazed fanlight, decorative painted timber gabled bracketted canopy with slate roof and clay ridge cresting. Three stone steps to street. House set back slightly from street. Front paved area bounded by decorative painted cast-iron railings on painted stone plinth wall.
- Astoria House, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey smooth-rendered house, built c. 1860. Single bay to south of entrance door and canted two-storey bay window to north. One of a group of four. Pitched slate roof, clay crested ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, flat-roofed dormer, cast-iron half-round gutters on painted timber projecting eaves fascia on paired timber corbels. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth-rendered walls on projecting plinth. Painted timber casement window to flat-roofed dormer. Segmental-headed window openings to ground and first floors, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sash windows to first floor, two-over-one to ground floor, decorative cast iron sill guards to first floor. Segmental-headed door opening with chamfered reveals, painted timber struck-moulded six-panel door, plain-glazed fanlight, decorative painted timber gabled bracketted canopy with slate roof and clay ridge cresting. Three stone steps to street. House set back slightly from street. Front paved area bounded by decorative painted cast-iron railings on painted stone plinth wall.
- House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey smooth-rendered house, built c. 1860. One of a group of four. Pitched slate roof, clay crested ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron half-round gutters on painted timber projecting eaves fascia on paired timber corbels. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth-rendered walls on projecting plinth. Segmental-headed window openings to ground and first floors, painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows. Segmental-headed door opening with chamfered reveals, painted timber struck-moulded six-panel door with glazed central panel, plain-glazed fanlight, decorative painted timber gabled bracketted canopy with slate roof and clay ridge cresting. Three stone steps to street. House set back slightly from street and adjoining property to north. Front paved area bounded by decorative painted cast-iron railings on painted stone plinth wall.
- House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840, with integral carriage arch to north and extensions to rear (west) c. 1890 and c. 1980. Pitched slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystack, painted timber decorative projecting barge boards to north gable, extruded aluminium rainwater goods, cast-iron hopper head. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows. Round-headed door opening with projecting painted plain surround on plinth blocks, painted timber six-panel door, plain-glazed fanlight c.1990. Square-headed carriage opening gives access to rear yard. Slightly set back from street.
- Store/warehouse, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Attached multiple-bay five-storey stone (formerly rendered) warehouse, built c. 1870. Now in commercial use. Pitched corrugated asbestos to south slope of roof, skylight, cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves course. Unpainted sheeted timber goods canopied dormer with pulley-wheel with pitched slate roof to east side of south elevation. Squared rubble limestone walling painted to north elevation. Square-headed window openings to north elevation, flush sills, painted stone voussoirs, painted timber fixed light windows c. 1980. Square-headed window openings to south elevation, red brick dressings, timber casement windows boarded up. Square-headed full-height door opening to east end of south elevation, red brick reveals, timber beams between floors, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, ground floor blocked up. Square-headed door openings to north elevation, painted timber glazed double doors to east opening, polyester powder-coated aluminium door screen to west. Some single-storey buildings arranged around central courtyard accessed by a metal gate to east.
- House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1850, entrance to east. One of a group of three. Adjoins mill building to east. Pitched slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay octagonal pots, cast-iron gutters. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted stone quoins to east. Square-headed window openings, painted moulded render surrounds, flat pediments to first floor windows, painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows c. 1990. Elliptical-headed door opening, moulded render surround, plain-glazed fanlight, asymmetric painted timber panelled double door flanked by Ionic columns with painted entablature, geometric tiling to lobby. Street fronted.
- House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey rendered house, built c. 1850. Pitched artificial slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack with octagonal yellow clay pots, cast-iron gutters. Unpainted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling on projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted sills, uPVC casement windows c. 1990. Round-headed door opening to east side of north elevation (main), plain-glazed fanlight, painted timber four-panel door. Street fronted.
- Kazelain, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey rendered house, built c. 1850. Possibly originally two two-bay houses, various extensions to rear (south). Pitched artificial slate roof, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks with yellow clay octagonal pots, moulded uPVC rainwater goods c. 1990. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Square-headed window openings, painted masonry sills, uPVC windows c. 1990. Round-headed stairwell window on west gable, painted masonry sill, uPVC window. Elliptical-headed door opening, moulded rendered concave surround, plain-glazed fanlight, painted timber panelled and glazed door c. 2000, single stone step to threshold. Street fronted with mild steel gate mounted on free-standing smooth-rendered pier to gable leading to rear.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey stone house, built c.1880. Single-storey return to rear. One of a group of six. Hipped slate roof, clay hip and ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystack, extruded aluminium rainwater goods. Squared and coursed rockfaced limestone walling to west elevation, unpainted smooth-render to north elevation. Segmental-headed window openings, painted block-and-start brick surrounds, painted stone sills, uPVC casements c. 1995. Segmental-headed door opening, painted brick dressings, narrow plain-glazed fanlight, uPVC half-glazed door c. 2000. Street fronted.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey stone house, built c.1880. Single-storey return to rear. One of a group of six. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystack, extruded aluminium rainwater goods. Squared and coursed rockfaced limestone walling. Segmental-headed window openings, painted block-and-start brick surrounds, painted stone sills, painted timber casements c. 1995. Segmental-headed door opening, painted brick dressings, narrow patterned-glass fanlight, painted timber six-panel c. 1995. Street fronted.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey stone house, built c. 1880. Single-storey return to rear. One of a group of six. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystack, roof light c. 1995, extruded aluminium gutters, cast-iron downpipe. Squared and coursed rockfaced limestone walling to west elevation. Segmental-headed window openings, painted block-and-start brick surrounds, painted stone sills, uPVC casements c. 2000. Segmental-headed door opening, painted brick dressings, narrow plain-glazed fanlight, hardwood panelled door with integral fanlight c. 2000. Street fronted.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey stone house, built c.1880. Single-storey return to rear. One of a group of six. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystack, extruded aluminium rainwater goods. Squared and coursed rockfaced limestone walling. Segmental-headed window openings, painted block-and-start brick surrounds, painted stone sills, uPVC casements c. 2000. Segmental-headed door opening, painted brick dressings, narrow plain-glazed fanlight, hardwood six-panel door c. 2000. Street fronted.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey stone house, built c.1880. Single-storey return to rear. One of a group of six. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystack, extruded aluminium rainwater goods. Squared and coursed rockfaced limestone walling. Segmental-headed window openings, painted block-and-start brick surrounds, painted stone sills, uPVC casements c. 2000. Segmental-headed door opening, painted brick dressings, narrow plain-glazed fanlight, hardwood eight-panel door c. 2000. Street fronted.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey stone house, built c.1880. Two-storey return to rear. One of a group of six. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and coursed rockfaced limestone walling to west and south elevations. Segmental-headed window openings, block-and-start brick surrounds, stone sills, blocked-up. Segmental-headed door opening, brick dressings, blocked-up. Street fronted with palisade fence to south.
- Store/warehouse, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Attached corner-sited multiple-bay four-storey stone former warehouse, built c. 1830 and remodelled c. 1870, with integral carriage arch to north. No longer in use. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods. Uncoursed rubble limestone walls. Segmental-headed window openings, red brick dressings, flush sills, remnants of timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to south in painted smooth-rendered surround, rudimentary painted timber fascia over painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Segmental-headed carriage arch to north, red brick arch, metal framed open mesh double gates leading to yard behind. Street fronted.
- Store/warehouse, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay three-storey stone, former warehouse, built c. 1870. Central integral carriage arch. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof, red brick chimneystack, cast-iron gutters, cast-iron downpipes. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling, brick infill to gable. Square-headed window openings, brick dressings, stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sash windows set behind iron bars. Elliptical-headed carriage opening, painted stone surround on plinth blocks, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors. Street fronted, located at end of a row of (other) warehouse buildings.
- Store/warehouse, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey former warehouse, built c. 1870, with integral carriage arch to south. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling. Square-headed window openings, brick dressings, stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sash windows, iron bars to ground floor. Elliptical-headed opening to carriage arch, painted stone voussoirs, impost, pilasters and plinths, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, stone carriage wheel fenders to east and west. Street fronted.
- Store/warehouse, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey former warehouse which later functioned as a shop, built c. 1870. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods. Uncoursed squared rubble limestone walling. Square-headed window openings, brick block-and-start jambs and arches, painted to ground floor, stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sash windows, openings to second floor blocked-up. Square-headed display window to north, painted brick surround. Square-headed door opening to north of centre, painted block-and-start surround, plain-glazed overlight, painted timber half-glazed panelled door. Painted timber fascia sign with moulded edges. Street fronted.
- Weston House, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Attached corner-sited three-storey over basement rendered and tile-hung Arts and Crafts-style house, built c. 1910. Projecting gable-fronted double bay to south elevation with splayed re-entrant corner to ground floor, projecting rectangular plain two-storey timber and glazed entrance porch to west elevation, single-storey over raised basement lean-to to north elevation, slightly projecting full-height chimney breast to east elevation and bracketted oriel windows to second floor at east, west and south. Now in use as medical surgery. Pitched artificial slate roof, half-hipped to west, clay crested ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack with corbelled brick capping, projecting painted timber decorative barge boards to gables, profiled cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia boards, cast-iron downpipes. Polychromatic vertical clay tile hanging to first and second floors, painted roughcast walling to basement and ground floors, painted smooth-render string hood-moulds. Square-headed window openings to first and second floors, segmental-headed window openings to ground floor and basement, round-headed window opening to first floor of lean-to and west elevation, painted stone sills, uPVC casements c. 1995. Decorative cast-iron window guards to ground floor. Painted timber fixed-pane casement windows to entrance porch and to single round-headed window on west elevation. Square-headed door opening to entrance porch, painted timber panelled door. Segmental-headed door opening to east elevation at basement level, painted stone hood-mould, mullioned overlight, limestone step, painted timber panelled door. East elevation fronts onto street, landscaped grounds to south and west, now in use as carpark, rendered boundary wall, wrought-iron entrance gate to south-east corner.
- House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey over basement rendered house, built c. 1840. Originally three-bay with single-bay two-storey extension added to east c. 2000. Now in use as a Dental Surgery. Pitched artificial slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted ruled-and-lined smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, unpainted stone sills, uPVC casement windows c. 2000. Round-headed entrance door opening, decorative fanlight, painted timber four-panel door. Four stone steps over basement area with bull-nosed first step, wrought-iron balustrade to both sides. Steel railing to basement area, wheelchair ramp c. 2000. Wrought-iron railings with cast-iron enrichments on unpainted smooth-rendered boundary wall with segmental stone coping. Traditional wrought-iron gates to east give access to rear.
- MacDiarmada Railway Station, signal box, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey signal box, built c. 1880, brickwork base c. 1970. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimney to north elevaton, cast-iron rainwater goods. Overhanging painted timber eaves on painted timber brackets, projecting painted timber bargeboards. Brickwork walling on painted smooth-rendered plinth to ground floor, painted timber horizontally-boarded cladding to first floor. Segmental-arched window openings to ground floor, painted masonry sills, painted timber framed fixed continuous glazing to first floor south elevation returning to east and west elevations. Gabled porch to first floor east elevation, gabled pitched slate roof, timber-clad walls, painted timber door, reached by metal staircase.
- MacDiarmada Railway Station, turntable, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Railway turntable, built 1929. No longer in use. Heavy iron girder rotating table with iron tracks flanked on both sides by timber planked gangways, tubular iron balustrading, brake lever. Set within sunken concrete-lined pit with iron bogey track on concrete ledge. Cast-iron embossed plaques to sub-frame with inscription, 'Ransomes & Rapier Ltd, R and R, Ipswich, England 1929'.
- MacDiarmada Railway Station, water tower, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached stone water tower, built c.1890 with enclosure to west c. 1940 and diesel fuel tanks to east c. 1990. Steel storage tank set on tooled square-profile corbel course on rock-faced squared-and-snecked limestone walling. Centrally-positioned round-headed door opening on south elevation, painted timber vertically-sheeted door set in sheeted surround. Enclosure to west with squared and coursed rubble walling, tooled ashlar quoins, concrete copings to wall heads, iron panel sliding door hung on bogeys to overhead track. Tower situated adjacent to railway turntable between railway tracks.
- Lisroyan, house, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay two-storey with attic red brick house, built 1888. Main block is 'L' shaped on plan with single-storey flat-roofed entrance to south-west and single-storey canted bays projecting from south and west elevations. Timber-framed lean-to conservatory on east elevation. Four-bay two-storey wing to north fronted to west by single-storey flat-roofed block. Pitched slate roof to main house with pitched lead covered roofs to bays, crested ridge tiles, corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters, painted timber eaves and barges. Hipped slate roof to north wing. Red brick Flemish bond brick walls with projecting plinth and first floor string course. Square-headed window openings to ground and attic floors with moulded sandstone lintels and sandstone sills. Flat brick arches to other openings with moulded brick caps to main windows. uPVC casement windows throughout, attic windows with original painted timber one-over-one sashes. Round-headed sandstone surround to entrance with stopped hood-moulding and colonettes with carved Corinthian capitals. Painted timber four-panel door with bolection mouldings, plain-glazed fanlight over. Sandstone steps with flanking wall. Enclosed courtyard in matching style to north-west with two-storey pitched roof outbuilding. Mature garden to south and east, wrought-iron entrance gates.
- House, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1845, attached to row to east. Pitched artificial slate roof, plain artificial ridge tiles, unpainted smooth render chimneystack with four pots on west gable, half-round metal gutters and cast-iron downpipe. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined walls on painted plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted masonry sills, six-over-six painted timber sash windows to front, one small one-over-one sash window to west gable. Semi-circular-headed entrance door opening offset to west, six-panel painted timber door with cobweb fanlight over. Two dressed stone steps with wrought-iron bootscraper to west side. Set back from main building line, garden to front laid out in two grassed areas to either side of path leading to rendered masonry street fronted boundary wall with wrought-iron gate and railings with cast-iron fleur-de-lis enrichments, gateway to west with plain wrought-iron double gates.
- Shell House, office, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Attached five-bay two-storey rendered commercial property with attic, built 1858. East side aligns with neighbouring terrace while west side has exposed gable returning two bays to abut adjoining building. Hipped artificial slate roof, plain artificial ridge tiles, painted timber fascia, half-round uPVC gutters, square uPVC downpipes, c. 1995. Painted rendered walls, straight banded quoins, painted stone plinth. Segmental-headed window openings, continuous moulded sill to second floor, painted timber casement windows to south elevation c. 1995, four-over-four painted timber sash windows to west elevation. Windows to south elevation with rebated render moulded architraves, keystones to ground floor, one dated 1858. Painted timber shop fascia and cornice over two pairs of painted render pilasters flanking two round-headed doorways each containing six-panel doors, one varnished and one painted c. 1995, with vertically sub-divided fanlights over. Single dressed stone steps to each entrance. Street fronted.
- Cork House, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1870, now in use as dental surgery. One of a group of four. Pitched artificial slate roof, plain artificial ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack surmounted by four yellow clay hexagonal chimney pots, moulded eaves, replacement uPVC rainwater goods c. 1995. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls on painted stone plinth. Square-headed window openings to upper floor, segmental-arched to ground floor, painted moulded render architraves, painted masonry sills, replacement one-over-one top hung uPVC casement windows, c. 1995. Segmental-arched door opening with painted moulded architrave, painted timber door with four raised lozenge panels and plain overlight. Accessed by two sandstone steps. Street fronted.
- House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1870. One of a group of four. Converted to flats, c. 1995. Pitched artificial slate roof, plain artificial ridge tiles, shared red brick chimneystack surmounted by yellow clay hexagonal pots to east, moulded eaves, replacement moulded gutter c. 1995, cast-iron downpipe. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined walls on painted stone plinth. Square-headed window openings to upper floor, segmental-arched to ground floor, painted moulded render window architraves and sills, replacement one-over-one top-hung uPVC casement windows, c. 1995. Two segmental-headed door openings with moulded and painted rendered architraves, painted timber door with four raised lozenge panels and plain overlights. West door accessed by two stone steps, east door at ground level gives access to alley leading to rear. Street fronted.
- House, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1875. One of a group of four. Pitched artificial slate roof, shared red brick chimneystack to west with yellow clay chimney pots, moulded eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined walls on painted stone plinth. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor and square-headed to first, with painted moulded render architraves, painted stone sills,painted timber one-over-one sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded architrave, painted timber four-panel door with raised lozenge panels, plain overlight, cut limestone step. Street fronted.
- House, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1875. One of a group of four. Pitched artificial slate roof, brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods on projecting eaves course. Painted, rendered ruled-and-lined walls. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor and square-headed to first, with painted moulded render architraves, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with painted moulded render architrave, painted timber door with four raised lozenge panels and plain overlight. Two cut limestone threshold steps. Street fronted and adjacent to construction site to east.
- Hotel, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay three-storey stone hotel, built c. 1845, with three-storey, flat-roofed, rendered extension to rear. M-profile artificial slate main roof, artificial ridge and hip tiles, centrally-placed unpainted rendered chimneystack, moulded cast-iron rainwater goods on projecting stone eaves course on plain block corbels. Felt covering to flat-roofed extension. Coursed rock-faced ashlar limestone walling with polished ashlar quoins on tooled stone plinth. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone block-and-start surrounds and stone sills, replacement uPVC casement windows, c. 1995. Semi-circular-headed door opening, painted and heavily moulded architrave, painted timber six-panel replacement double doors, c. 1995. Three stone steps at entrance. Set back from roadside behind concrete car parking bays and footpath.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey rendered house, built c. 1830. Vacant at present. Pitched artificial slate roof, plain artificial ridge tiles, unpainted rendered chimneystack, metal gutters. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls on painted stone plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, uPVC casements, c. 1995. Semi-circular-headed door opening with replacement varnished timber six-panel door c. 1995, painted stone step. Street fronted.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey rendered house, built c. 1830. In use as commercial premises. Pitched artificial slate roof, artificial ridge tiles, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystack with yellow clay pots, half-round metal rainwater goods. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined wall, with straight banded quoin to south, on painted stone plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, top-hung uPVC casements, c. 2000. Modern shop sign. Square-headed door opening with replacement varnished four-panel timber door, c. 1995. Painted stone step. Street fronted.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey rendered house, built c. 1830, with integral carriage arch to south. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof, unpainted rendered chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined walls with painted smooth rendered banded quoins to north and painted plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted reveals and stone sills, containing replacement uPVC casement windows, c. 1990. Semi-circular-headed door opening with decorative fanlight over painted timber panelled door. Square-headed carriage opening to south with, horizontally-sheeted, painted timber double doors, painted brass door bell pulls to north of entrance door and to north of carriage opening. Street fronted.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1840. Subsequently in use as Jehovah's Witness Meeting House. Pitched artificial slate roof, c.1970, Velux window, c. 1970, two unpainted rendered chimneystacks forming L-shape, half-round metal gutters. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls to upper storeys, painted ashlar stonework to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with painted reveals and painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows, c. 2000. Elliptical-headed door opening with decorative fanlight over replacement painted timber panelled door, c. 1990. Street fronted opposite former town hall. Site is bordered by a chamfered corner at break forward to south.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey rendered former house, built c.1830, with integral carriage arch to north. Now in commercial use. Pitched artificial slate roof, c. 1980, velux window, c. 1980, unpainted rendered centrally-located chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered ruled-and-lined rendered walls, painted stone surround to carriage arch, painted stone sill course at first floor, quoins partially visible. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows, c. 1990. Ground floor window opening altered c. 1970. Semi-circular-headed door opening with plain fanlight over painted timber eight-panel door. Elliptical-headed carriage arch, painted stone surround, painted metal gate incorporating wicket gate. Street fronted and located opposite Town Hall.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey render and stone house, built c. 1830. Built as part of a terrace of four. Now in use as civic offices. Pitched slate roof, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystack, uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to upper storeys, with squared rock-faced limestone masonry to ground floor. Square-headed window openings, with rendered reveals to upper storeys, ashlar quoins and voussoirs to ground floor. Limestone sills to ground floor, painted at upper storeys. Painted timber six-over-six sash windows to ground and first floor, six-over-three to second floor. Elliptical-headed door opening with tooled quoins and voussoirs, recessed painted timber eight-panel door flanked by Tuscan colonnettes, plain glazed fanlight over. Street fronted building on wide street facing Town Hall.
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1830. Built as part of a group of four. Now in commercial use. Pitched slate roof, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystack, uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to upper storeys of front elevation, unpainted rendered gable and west elevation, rock-faced squared limestone masonry to ground floor. Square-headed window openings, with rendered reveals to upper storeys, ashlar quoins and voussoirs to ground floor, limestone sills, painted at upper storeys, painted timber six-over-six sash windows to ground and first floor, six-over-three to second floor. Elliptical-headed door opening with tooled quoins and voussoirs, recessed painted timber eight-panel door flanked by Tuscan colonnettes, plain glazed fanlight over. Round-headed recess for boot scraper formed in plinth to north side of entrance. Street fronted building on wide street facingTown Hall.
- House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1890, with additional two-storey flat-roofed bay to east, possibly originally part of an adjoining building. Hipped artificial slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with straight banded quoin to east. Square-headed window openings with simple moulded render architraves, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sash windows. Square-headed door opening with overlight and varnished hardwood panelled door, c. 1990. Street fronted.
- Old Quay, harbour/dock/port, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
C-plan limestone harbour wall, built c. 1830, with slipway to south-east corner and returning squared limestone quay walls along river bank to east and west. Roughly-squared and coursed limestone walling. Limestone paving to quay surface, now largely grass covered and having variety of painted metal mooring posts. Situated at north of carpark, with Garavogue river to south-east.
- Sligo Town Hall, town/county hall, 1860–1870 · National interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey Lombardo Romanesque palazzo-style town hall, built c. 1865, returning nine-bays to south, with central single-bay break-front, three-stage square-plan clock tower to north-east. Extensively restored and rennovated, c. 1998, with additon of five-bay three-storey extension to north elevation. Hipped slate roof, lead-capped hips and ridges, brick chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate-covered pyramidal roof to bell tower with sprocketed eaves, lead-capped hips, louvred gabled dormers on each face, surmounted by decorative octagonal shaped iron cresting. Squared-and-coursed limestone rock-faced masonry walling with extensive use of Mountcharles sandstone detailing including string and sill courses, cornice, door and window surrounds. Squared and coursed limestone rock-faced masonry walling with machine-made brick window surrounds to, plainer, north and east elevations. Round-headed window openings with pointed arch surrounds having alternating sandstone and limestone voussoirs, carved sandstone roll-mouldings to reveals, square-profile recessed order, chamfered sill course, painted timber two-over-two reproduction sash windows, c. 1998. Round-headed main entrance door opening set within trabeated breakfront bay having carved sandstone surround with prominent vermiculated keystone roll mouldings, limestone colonnettes and deeply recessed reveals. Plain-glazed fanlight above corbelled sandstone transom over painted timber panelled double doors each with three raised-and-fielded panels. Flight of six limestone steps between flanking walls to entrance. Further gable-headed door opening in similar style to main entrance to south elevation. Interior features entrance vestibule with open well staircase having sandstone steps and cast-iron ballustrade, triple-arched arcade supported on paired colonnettes to first floor and octagonal lantern with glazed cupola. Building set back from street in own grounds with squared limestone rubble quadrant walls to north and south, having sandstone coping, carved sandstone gate piers with 'S' insignia and surmounted by cast-iron railings. Gatekeeper's Lodge, c. 1876 to south.
- McHugh Monument, monument, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding white marble sculpture on polygonal grey limestone capital with celtic motif carvings on pulvinated base on three clustered pink granite columns on limestone bases and plinth with three protruding limestone semi-round seats, erected c. 1915. Statue of P. A. McHugh, executed by Hanrahan of Dublin, inscriptions at base read 'Erected to the memory of P. A. McHugh, elected MP for Leitrim 1892 and continued as MP for Leitrim up to his death in 1903. Also Lord Mayor of Sligo for nine years.' To the south, inscription reads, 'Foundation stone laid by Alderman Edward Foley ex-Mayor on St. Patrick's Day March 17, 1913.' Third inscription to north reads, 'Statue unveiled by John E. Redmond MP October 1916, Alderman John Jinks presiding'. Cobbled surrounding base, to south of Town Hall at edge of lawned area, statue originally located on O'Connell Street, moved c. 1970.
- Sligo Town Hall, gate lodge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay one-and-a-half-storey stone former caretaker's lodge, built c.1876. T-shape on plan with gable-fronted two-storey projection to north and lean-to entrance porch in south-west corner. Now in use as civic offices. Pitched slate roofs, painted timber decorative bargeboards to east and west gables, cast-iron rainwater goods with profiled gutters. Coursed squared limestone walls with sandstone window details and rock-faced sandstone quoins. Semi-circular-headed window openings to gabled bay and south with arch-headed voussoirs, sandstone block-and-start quoins, limestone sills, painted timber two-over-two sash windows, c. 2000, on west side of south roof, single dormer window containing two-over-two replacement timber sash windows c. 2000. Square-headed window opening to porch under sandstone lintel, with sandstone block-and-start surround and limestone sill, containing two-over-two replacement timber sash window c. 2000. Square-headed door opening to entrance with rock-faced stone lintel and block-and-start reveals, varnished hardwood vertically-sheeted door, c. 2000. Located in curtilage of Town Hall and backs onto Henry Lyons Department Store to south.
- The Sligo Warehouse, shop/retail outlet, 1875–1880 · National interest
Description
Corner-sited seven-bay by nine-bay three-storey rendered commercial outlet, built 1878. Pitched artificial slate roof hipped at corner, artificial ridge tiles, replacement uPVC profiled gutters and downpipe, c. 2000, on painted timber fascia to west face, moulded uPVC gutter on plain brackets to main south-facing elevation with cast-iron downpipes and hoppers. Painted rendered finish to south elevation, ruled-and-lined to west elevation. Square-headed window openings, painted moulded-render architraves, painted stone sills to upper storeys, painted timber plain-glazed sash windows, decorative iron sill guards to south elevation windows. Projecting eight-bay oriel window to first floor west elevation in painted timber with casement frames with leaded lights over, c. 1926. Main south elevation shopfront, returning onto Quay Street, in painted timber with, centrally-located, half-glazed double doors with three large display windows to each side. Fascia sign, incorporating canvas awning mechanism, reads "Henry Lyons & Co Ltd, The Sligo Warehouse, Henry Lyons & Co Ltd, The Sligo Warehouse", wrought ironwork above, supported on fluted Ionic pilasters and cast-iron columns set behind glass. Mosiac tiled entrance reads "Henry Lyons & Co Ltd". West elevation shopfront in painted timber and glazed, c. 1995 with inscribed fascia sign reading "Henry Lyons & Co Ltd", leaded light canopy over entrance, c. 1986, in replacement metal frame, c. 1995, fully glazed frames to remainder of elevation. Street-fronted to south and west sides.
- Sligo Post Office, post office, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay by two-bay two-storey brick post office, built 1901. Four-bay two-storey extension to north (rear), c. 1995. Hipped artificial slate roof set behind parapet of main building, artificial ridge and hip tiles. Banded red brick walls and parapet, limestone parapet coping, three moulded stone string courses and central banded polished limestone ashlar frontage set between shallow, bow-fronted end bays, each on flush limestone ashlar plinth. Square-headed window openings with brick voussoirs and stone keystones, stone sills to first floor windows, replacement uPVC casements, c. 1995, to first floor, replacement metal casement, c. 1995, to ground floor with four original painted timber casements, each with two six-pane inward-opening bottom-hung casements over two plain-glazed lights. Square-headed main entrance door opening with broken pediment above on pair of fluted consoles, inscriptions read ' Post Office' and E 1901 R'. Pair of double-panelled folding varnished doors approached by ramp and steps with painted steel railings. Street fronted and corner-sited on slope down to Garavogue, macadam courtyard area to rear.
- Hyde Bridge House, shop/retail outlet, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited five-bay two-storey commercial premises, built 1906, attached at north rear to adjoining hotel and at east to two-storey terrace. In use as four retail outlets. Symmetrically composed front (south) elevation with shopfronts at ground floor and, at first floor, central section with two round-headed windows, flanked by breakfront sections with oriel windows with gables over, flanked by sections identical to the centre section. Pitched artificial slate roof set behind gables and parapet to front elevation, artificial ridge tiles, uPVC profiled gutter, c. 1995, to rear. Painted rendered walls, plain concrete verge and parapet copings, datestones with hood mouldings set within eared architrave frames inscribed '1906' to twin gables, rendered string course to base of parapet supported by window keystones, chamfered stone base plinths. Painted timber round-headed windows, c. 1995 and square-headed oriel windows to first floor. Four painted moulded timber shopfronts to main elevation returning to Fish Quay, each with recessed doorways between glazed display bays, painted timber corbelled fascia signs over with original awning operating gear. Street-fronted to south and west.
- Gates/railings/walls, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Fragment of quay wall, built c. 1820. Located under modern hotel building on west bank of Garavogue River north of Hyde Bridge and the commercial centre of Sligo Town. Squared-and-snecked battered rock-faced limestone walling.
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Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Rathedmond, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1099 (ZIP).
- 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 Rathedmond with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Rathedmond · Ráth Éamainn
- Area
- 834,940 m² (83.49 ha, 206.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. John's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Sligo West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 7,788 people lived in 3,276 households in the Sligo West electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydoogan, Finisklin, Knappagh Beg, Knappagh More, Rathquarter
- Placenames
- Rathedmond 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.