Arnasbrack

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arnasbrack, from 1,631 m² to 121,815 m² (12.18 ha, 30.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Arnasbrack 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.

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  1. To construct a single storey split level type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560145

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Dargan 001906

Recorded monuments

• SL021-019 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On a knoll in good pasture c. 150m E of Lough Dargan and c. 500m WSW of a court tomb (SL021-020----) at Carrownagh. The tomb stands in a low, oval mound (28m E-W; 12.5m N-S; max. H 1.5m). A largely destroyed full court (L 7.5m) at the E leads to a gallery (L 6m; max. Wth 2.7m). Two jambs define the entrance to the gallery and two more divide it into two chambers. The court is represented by five stones, one flanking each entrance jamb and three at its outer end. A gap between two of three outer stones may form the entrance to the court. A large stone standing on edge at the inner end of the court may have rested on the entrance jambs as a lintel. The gallery sides are intact save for a gap at the inner half of the N side of the front chamber. There are two displaced stones in this chamber. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 50-51, no. 78) 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL021-046001 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified 'Enclosure'. In pasture, on level ground on top of an E-W ridge two fields SW of 'Ardnisbrack House'. Depicted as an subrectangular tree-covered feature on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as an oval enclosure with interior planted with trees on the 1913 OS 6-inch map. Upstanding remains comprise a crescent-shaped curve S-N, incorporated into a linear N-S field boundary (Wth 0.8m; H 0.8m). The enclosed semicircular area (30m N-S; 10m E-W) is flat, featureless and flush with the exterior ground level. This is likely to be a landscape feature of post-1700 AD date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• SL021-046002 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  On the top of an E-W ridge at the edge of a N-facing limestone bluff overlooking Lough Dargan. A slightly raised roughly D-shaped area (dims. c. 30m ENE-WSW) with a straight N side (L 30m). The interior is defined on the straight side by the bluff and elsewhere by a ruined stone wall. The wall survives as a sod-covered stone bank (Wth c. 1.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m) but stones protruding in parts indicate that it is composed of a rubble core with internal and external stone facing. It is best-preserved NE-S but is very degraded and broken by numerous gaps SW-NW. The interior is level but uneven, broken by E-W bands of limestone pavement. A faint linear cropmark crosses the E edge of the interior on a NNW-SSE axis intersecting at the N end with a perpendicular line that can be traced for c. 10m to WSW across the N of the interior. These features may be the remains of later field boundaries. The cashel is located towards the W end of the cliff at a point where a series of broken terraces allow access to the base of the cliff and from there to the lakeshore. A cashel (SL021-046003-) is visible on a lower undulation of the same ridge c. 150m to SW. 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

• SL021-046003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On top of an E-W ridge, at the edge of a steep bluff. An oblong area (26m E-W; 16m N-S) defined NNW-NNE by the break of slope at the top of the bluff and elsewhere by a slight moss-covered rise (Wth 1.5m) outside which the ground falls away gently in a natural slope. At the base of the slope, at a distance of 8-10m from the inner wall, is an outer enclosing wall. It is difficult to trace NE-SE and is truncated in parts by small areas of quarrying. It survives S-NW as a sod-covered stony bank (Wth c. 3m) topping a low scarp (H 0.7m). A third wall and outer fosse are visible as cropmarks in an aerial photograph (IASAP, 3043089-90) along the WNW arc outside and separated from the second wall by an intervening fosse. A cliff-edge fort (SL021-046002-) is visible on higher ground c. 150m to NE. The remains of a field system (SL021-046004-) lie in the surrounding field to E, S and W. There is a possible hut site (SL021-046006-) c. 20m to SW. 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

• SL021-046004 Field system
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. A fragmented pattern of field boundaries, covering an area c. 300m x 90m, is visible in an aerial photograph (IASAP, 3043089-90) radiating to E, S and W of a cashel (SL021-046003-). On the ground, the field boundaries are evident as slight stony rises covered with moss. Immediately to W of the cashel, the walls enclose small subrectangular fields of unequal size (e.g. 25m N-S x 12.5m E-W; 16m N-S x 45-50m E-W) laid out axially along a natural E-W elevation. The shape of the fields is largely dictated by natural contours. A possible hut site (SL021-046006-) is located c. 20m SW of the cashel and appears to be associated with this field system. 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

• SL021-046005 Field boundary
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'House Site Possible'. Within Arnasbrack cashel (SL021-046002-). This feature was described in 1992 as the rectangular outline (8m NE-SW; 5.5m NW-SE) of a possible structure (SMR (1989) file). During a subsequent inspection (25/11/2002) it was recorded that what was previously mistaken as a hut site may, in fact, be later field boundaries. These field boundaries are described as a faint linear cropmark traversing the E edge of the interior on a NNW-SSE axis and intersecting at the N end with a perpendicular line that can be traced for c. 10m to WSW across the N of the interior. These features may be the remains of later field boundaries. An aerial photograph (IASAP, 3043089-90) confirms this. These are probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• SL021-046006 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In pasture, on top of an E-W ridge. A barely discernible rectangular feature (c. 6-8m N-S; 4m E-W;), possibly a hut site, is located c. 20m SW of a cashel (SL021-046003-) and is possibly associated with a field system (SL021-046004-). 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

• Arnasbrack House, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1870. Flat-roofed porch to main (south) elevation, gabled two-storey return and lean-to outbuildings to rear (north). Pitched slate roof, clay roll-top ridge tiles, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with yellow clay pots, cast-iron half-round gutters on eaves corbel course. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber casement windows to west side of front elevation and painted two-over-two timber sash windows elsewhere, coupled one-over-one sash windows to east side of front elevation. Square-headed door opening to porch, glazed hardwood screen c. 1990 with painted timber panelled door within. Gravelled forecourt approached from driveway to south-east, painted smooth-rendered wall with timber gates extends from south-west corner of house giving to farmyard.

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 Arnasbrack, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Arnasbrack · Ard na Spreac

Area

2,047,404 m² (204.74 ha, 505.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilross, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballintogher West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

457 people lived in 148 households in the Ballintogher West electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore Far, Carrownagh, Cartronhugh, Cartrontaylor, Castledargan, Killeenduff, Kilross

Placenames

Arnasbrack 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.