Magheranore

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheranore, from 294 m² to 133,680 m² (13.37 ha, 33.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Magheranore 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.

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  development consisting of (1) dwelling house as constructed (2) site entrance location and front boundary wall (3) location of septic tank and effluent treatment system (4) revised site boundaries which differ to those granted under PL99/975 and for external domestic garage

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2351

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of a proposed dwelling house, garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter, including hard and soft landscaping and all associated site works at Magheranore, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360095

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22425

• 16 Jun 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new site entrance to an existing dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20185

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 Magheranore.

Recorded monuments

• SL038-080001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope. An oval enclosure (44m N-S; 62m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H. 0.2m) along the W and N arcs and by a scarp (H 1.6m) elsewhere. A fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2m) is evident along the N arc. The interior slopes down to S and is divided into four sections by low irregular earthen banks and scarps. An earthen bank (H 0.4m) extends 26m to SW from the SW edge of the enclosure and a scarp (H 0.5m) extends 18m to W from the NW edge, possibly the remains of old field boundaries (SL038-080002-). 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

• SL038-080002 Field system
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope. An earthen bank (H 0.4m) extends 26m to SW from the SW edge of Magheranore enclosure (SL038-080001-) and a scarp (H 0.5m) extends 18m to W from the NW edge. These are possibly the remains of old field boundaries. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL038-081 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A raised circular area (38.5m N-S; 39.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.25m). Remains of a stone wall (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.2m) are evident on top of the edge of the scarp WSW-NW. An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.7m) is evident SW-NW and at SE. Short stretches of an outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.7m) are evident at SW and NW, revetted in places by upright stones. The interior is also encircled by a stone wall (Wth 1m; H 1.8m) c. 2m inside and concentric with the line of the inner enclosing wall of the cashel and possibly built reusing stones from the latter. A small rectangular stone-built structure (5m x 2.5m) is built as a lean-to on the inner face of this wall at SW. There are rock outcrops in the N half of the interior. 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 Magheranore.

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 Magheranore, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Magheranore · Machaire an Óir

Area

1,220,405 m² (122.04 ha, 301.57 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

381 people lived in 132 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindoo or Doocastle (Co. Mayo), Carrowkeel, Leitrim South, Powellsborough

Placenames

Magheranore 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.