Ballyculleen

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyculleen, from 132 m² to 340,334 m² (34.03 ha, 84.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21274

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the demolition of an existing domestic dwelling and the construction of a dormer type domestic house, domestic garage, upgrading of an existing access and access lane, construction of a domestic waste water treatment system to current EPA Code of Practice standards together with all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1767

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyculleen.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, high on the W side of a ridge. An oval area (int. diam. 26.9m x 31.4m) defined by an earthen bank with an external fosse (Wth 3.65m; D 0.5m). The bank (Wth 3.55m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.5m), evident along the S, W and N arcs but missing along the E arc, is partially overgrown with brambles. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.8m) at N. The interior slopes steeply down to E where the bank does not survive. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-120 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In rough pasture, on an E-facing slope. An oval grass-covered earth and stone mound (4.65m x 3.6m; H 1.1m). The top of the mound is uneven, possibly due to digging, and has an off-centre depression. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-span stone road-over-river bridge, built c. 1820. Roughly-squared rubble limestone walling to spandrels and parapets, dressed limestone platband with string over at deck level, dressed limestone square parapet copings, pilasters rising to become piers at ends of parapets, pyramidal dressed limestone caps. Segmental-headed arches, dressed limestone voussoirs, coursed dressed limestone piers between arches terminating in semi-circular cutwaters, chamfered impost string, domed caps. Single bitmac carriageway, narrow grass verges. Spans east-west over Feorish River.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballyculleen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ballyculleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballyculleen · Baile an Choillín

Area

1,055,023 m² (105.5 ha, 260.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynashee, Coolmurly, Drumbeg North, Foyoges, Magheralackagh, Shancough, Straduff

Placenames

Ballyculleen 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.