Ballyfahy

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfahy, from 330 m² to 381,917 m² (38.19 ha, 94.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Ballyfahy 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.

• 25 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct two storey extension to existing dressing room complex which will contain a passenger lift and to construct new building containing gym and store room, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560358

• 25 Aug 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of an extension together with alterations, to our existing spectator stand, complete with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20287

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 Ballyfahy.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin with commanding views. The rath is levelled. The bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1m), evident along S arc, once enclosed a circular area (diam. c. 36m). The edge of the rath to N and E has been quarried away. There is a natural rise in the interior. The rath is indicated as an embanked circular area on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It is indicated as a hachured circular raised area on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, incorporated into a field boundary system SW-NW and skirted by a boundary to S. 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

• SL039-041 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on the NW-facing slope of a drumlin. A slightly raised circular area (4m N-S; 3.95m E-W) enclosed by a shallow waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.35m) and an external earth and stone bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.8m). 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

• SL039-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a broad ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 26.1m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.85m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.6m). The interior is level. 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

• SL039-046 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a N-facing slope, c. 20m S of a road. The well is a deep natural water-filled basin in a cleft in the slope. The surrounding area is waterlogged. This well is said to have been visited during penal times on the feast of St Patrick (MacDonagh 1936, 31). By 1942-4 it was recorded as no longer in use (ITA). 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

• SL039-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. The rath is levelled. A raised circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W; H 1.1m) is evident. The interior is uneven. The remains of cultivation ridges are visible in the surrounding field. The rath is indicated as a hachured circular raised area on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. 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

• SL039-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an E-facing slope near the base of a drumlin. The remains of a circular area (int. diam. 22m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) except at NW where it is truncated by a field boundary and trackway. 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

• SL039-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a low drumlin; closely enclosed by four field boundaries at NE, SE, SW and NW. A raised circular area (int. diam. 30m N-S; 28.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m) along the E arc and by a scarp elsewhere. The interior, which slopes down to E, is partially 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

• SL039-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 22.7m N-S; 21.2m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.75m) except to S where a scarp (H 0.7m) is evident. The interior is concave and slopes down to S. There is a stone-faced field boundary directly S of the rath. 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

• SL039-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low broad drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 29.1m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.3m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.6m), except along the N arc. A possible outer bank, evident along the S arc, is incorporated into a field boundary. The interior slopes gently down to N and is partially overgrown with trees. 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

• SL039-152 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. The partially open entrance (Wth 0.27m) to a passage, formed by two sidestones and a lintel, is blocked by a stone slab. The passage extends to NE where a second lintel is visible on the surface. Two lintels visible on the surface to SE may indicate a second gallery. 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 Ballyfahy.

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 Ballyfahy, 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 Ballyfahy.

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

Name

Ballyfahy · Baile Faiche

Area

1,638,632 m² (163.86 ha, 404.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilturra, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Kilturra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

226 people lived in 76 households in the Kilturra electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardminnan, Ballynaraw South, Bellanalack, Carrowloughlin, Everlaun, Killavil, Knocknageeha, Lecarrow, Phaleesh, Rathbaun North, Spurtown (Duke)

Placenames

Ballyfahy 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.