Kingsborough

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Kingsborough, from 3,963 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) to 3,963 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 0 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Kingsborough in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 20 Jul 2026N/a

  Renovation, conservation and energy upgrade works to the existing garden cottage, situated within the grounds of the protected structure of Ballindoon House (RPS No.252CPD), and provision of a new wastewater system, new Suds drainage soakaway, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660293

• 20 Jul 2026Conditional

  Renovation, conservation and energy upgrade works to the existing garden cottage, situated within the grounds of the protected structure of Ballindoon House (RPS No.252CPD), and provision of a new wastewater system, new Suds drainage soakaway, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660294

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  Renovation, conservation and energy upgrade works to the existing garden cottage, situated within the grounds of the protected structure of Ballindoon House (RPS No.252CPD), and provision of a new wastewater system, new Suds drainage soakaway, and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660287

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: Lough Arrow SAC 001673
• Special Protection Area: Lough Arrow SPA 004050
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Arrow 001673

Recorded monuments

• SL034-212 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, straddling the level summit of a ridge with excellent views in all directions. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 42m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.55m) N-NW and by a slight scarp NW-N; a small portion of the bank at NE has been removed due to a now disused quarry. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary ENE-S resulting in increased dimensions (int. H 1m; Wth top 1.75m). A drain, associated with the quarry, skirts the external base of the bank E-S. A fosse (D 0.3m) is evident S-SSW and a dark band of grass marks the line of it SSW-NW. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth; mature beech and birch trees grow along the bank. The interior of this rath was cleared of scrub and a portion of the bank at NW (where the scarp now is) was levelled in the early 1960s (SMR (1989) file). 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

• SL034-213 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  In a demesne, overlooking Lough Arrow to the S. The present early 19th-century Ballindoon House (Bence-Jones 1988, 18) is reputed to be on the site of a 17th-century house (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). That house may have been the small rectangular structure (roughly on the site of the present house) indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map at the SE end of a tree-lined linear avenue (L c. 400m) (SL034-253----). This avenue (Wth 16m) is cambered and flanked on either side by a drain (Wth 2.5m; int. D 0.2m; ext. D 0.5m to the top of the external bank) with a low broad external earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m). The central portion has a gravel surface but otherwise it is entirely an earthen construction. It is similar to the avenue at Annaghmore (SL026-049----) and is probably 17th/early 18th-century in date. Another house, named 'Kingsborough Ho.', which no longer survives, is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, c. 50m to the S of the present Ballindoon House. According to local information, stones from the nearby Ballindoon Castle (SL034-220001-), c. 0.9km to the SE, were taken to build Ballindoon House. 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

• SL034-253 Designed landscape - avenue
  Description

  In a demesne, overlooking Lough Arrow to the S. The present early 19th-century Ballindoon House (Bence-Jones 1988, 18) is reputed to be on the site of a 17th-century house (SL034-213----) (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). That house may have been the small rectangular structure (roughly on the site of the present house) indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map at the SE end of a tree-lined linear avenue (L c. 400m). This avenue (Wth 16m) is cambered and flanked on either side by a drain (Wth 2.5m; int. D 0.2m; ext. D 0.5m to the top of the external bank) with a low broad external earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m). The central portion has a gravel surface but otherwise it is entirely an earthen construction. It is similar to the avenue at Annaghmore (SL026-049----) and is probably 17th/early 18th-century in date. Another house, named 'Kingsborough Ho.', which no longer survives, is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, c. 50m to the S of the present Ballindoon House. According to local information, stones from the nearby Ballindoon Castle (SL034-220001-), c. 0.9km to the SE, were taken to build Ballindoon House. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballindoon House, country house, 1838–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, extant 1860, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront with pedimented prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico; three-bay two-storey rear (south) elevation centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront on a bowed plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Replacement hipped fibre-cement slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on replacement pitched (gabled) fibre-cement slate roof (breakfront) with raised seam polycarbonate dome (south), clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on dentilated cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered, ruled and lined base with dentilated cornice; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish to rear (south) elevation on rendered, ruled and lined base with monolithic pilasters to corners supporting dentilated cornice. Square-headed central door opening behind pedimented prostyle tetrastyle Doric portico on tessellated platform approached by flight of three cut-limestone steps with rendered columns having responsive pilasters supporting modillioned pediment on "triglyph"-detailed frieze on entablature, and moulded rendered surround with cornice on blind frieze framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing margined one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing margined one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing margined one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed central window openings to rear (south) elevation with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing margined one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-limestone sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing margined one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing margined one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall on a pierced quatrefoil plan retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and moulded plasterwork cornice to cross beamed ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with cast-iron octagonal piers to perimeter having paired stringcourses below polygonal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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 Kingsborough, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kingsborough · Eanach Uí Bheannacháin

Area

374,517 m² (37.45 ha, 92.55 acres)

Civil parish

Killadoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Killadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindoon, Derry Beg

Placenames

Kingsborough 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.