Ballyscannel

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyscannel, from 30 m² to 78,791 m² (7.88 ha, 19.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Ballyscannel 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.

• 10 Aug 2026Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a new single detached domestic dwelling, proprietary treatment plant and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660326

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  1. construction of new extension to replace existing extension to north-east elevation, 2. new enlarged porch to south-west elevation and 3. Replacement of existing septic tank with new upgraded septic tank and percolation area all to existing dwelling

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460232

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) construction of extensions to east elevation (2) Alterations to north elevation, all to existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21140

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of a revised house reconfiguration and extension design from that granted under planning permission PL17/326.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18281

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of a) Retention of the conversion of the attic space to accommodate 2 no. en-suite bedrooms & a study. B) The construction of a garage

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1856

• 28 Aug 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the refurbishment and reconfiguration of an existing dwelling, construction of an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, installation of an on-site tertiary wastewater treatment system, improvements to the site entrance and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17326

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 Ballyscannel.

Recorded monuments

• SL005-020 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL005-020001 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Not indicated on the 1837 or 1912 editions of the OS six-inch map. Not listed in either the SMR (1989) or RMP (1995). Situated immediately to the N of Ballyscannel enclosure (SL005-020001-) in N-facing natural vertical slope overlooking foreshore. The structure is consists of two parallel walls (L N-S 2m; T 0.3m; Max. H 1.4m) spaced 2.2m apart. The walls are of un-mortared flat foreshore rocks and occasional quarried shale blocks laid in rough courses. Steps (av. dims. Wth 0.3m; D 0.2m; H 0.15m) constructed of roughly quarried shale blocks rise from the foreshore and up the natural slope on the W side of the westernmost wall. The area between the two walls is in-filled with rubble shale, foreshore rocks and earth. This is a post-1700 feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyscannel, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyscannel · Baile Uí Scannail

Area

1,807,101 m² (180.71 ha, 446.54 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Lissadill North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,549 people lived in 516 households in the Lissadill North electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharrow, Breaghwy, Drangan or Mountedward, Silverhill, Srarevagh

Placenames

Ballyscannel 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.