Spurtown Lower

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spurtown Lower, from 138 m² to 306,811 m² (30.68 ha, 75.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Spurtown Lower 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.

• 31 Oct 2017Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of silage walls on existing silage base, a roofed manure pit, roof over existing slatted tank and a roof over existing crush area together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17413

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 Spurtown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-014 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on a low broad ridge. A subrectangular area (int. diam. 21.7m NNW-SSE; 20.1m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 0.3m). A counterscarp bank (Wth 0.4m) is evident only along the NNW side. The fosse is barely perceptible on the SSE side. A field boundary crosses the interior on an E-W axis. Some stone has been dumped in the interior and in the fosse at the N corner. 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

• SL039-052001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A raised circular area (24.2m N-S; 24.2m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.5m) along the S arc and by a scarp (H 0.75m) elsewhere. The interior slopes down to SE. Two stone field boundaries, one disused, cross the rath on a NE-SW axis. There is a gap (Wth 5.2m) in the bank at SE. During a previous site inspection in 1983 it was noted that the enclosing scarp was topped by a low bank of earth and stone NNE-WSW (SMR (1989) file). A souterrain (SL039-052002-) lies 19m to NW. 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

• SL039-052002 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Discovered in 1983 when a low natural rise was being levelled and a stone was exposed which, when removed, revealed a chamber underneath. The souterrain was subsequently recorded and described as a subrectangular stone-built chamber (2.7m NE-SW; 2.55m NW-SE; H 2.6m) with a corbelled roof (SMR (1989) file). The floor was covered with a wide scatter of loose stones. There was an entrance to a collapsed passage (H 0.55; Wth 0.5m) at the S end of the SW wall with spill of earth and stone extending from it into the chamber. A second collapsed passage (H 0.6m; Wth 0.47m; min. L 0.6m) was noted in the NE wall. A third passage (H 0.6m; Wth at base 0.6m; Wth at top 0.7m; L 1.4m) led into a second oval chamber (3.2m NW-SE; 1.7m NE-SW). The exit from this passage into the chamber narrowed to 0.33m. The second chamber was roofed with lintels and almost filled with collapsed earth and stones that have spilled in from the NW end of the chamber. The top of the souterrain now lies 0.4m below ground level but was originally c. 1-1.5m below it. Access to the souterrain is now closed. A rath (SL039-052001-) lies 19m to SE. 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

• SL039-053 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle SW-facing slope. A raised circular area (int. diam. 8.3m N-S; 8.9m E-W) with a concave interior defined by a rim (int. H 1m; max. ext. H 1.8m). A single tree grows on the S perimeter. Listed by Farrelly and Keane (2002, 98). 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

• SL039-054 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In flat undulating pasture. A grass-covered gently sloping oval mound (dims. 41.1m x 17m; H 1.6m) which has been quarried into at W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Spurtown Lower.

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 Spurtown Lower, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1040 (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.

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

Name

Spurtown Lower · Baile an Spoir Íochtair

Area

1,054,481 m² (105.45 ha, 260.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshalvy, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Kilshalvy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

298 people lived in 115 households in the Kilshalvy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkeeran, Aughris, Deechomade, Knockanimma, Lissananny Beg, Lissananny More

Placenames

Spurtown Lower 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.