Camcuill

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camcuill, from 1,428 m² to 348,125 m² (34.81 ha, 86.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Camcuill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Camcuill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Camcuill.

Recorded monuments

• SL017-019001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a low ridge a short distance W of the Easky River. Slightly raised circular area (39.25m N-S; 37.5m E-W) enclosed by a much denuded, low bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.5m) of earth and stone with an external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.3m) which has been infilled at SW. At the outer lip of the fosse at E and S is a low counterscarp bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.2m). Within the enclosed area are a number of short lengths of low banks of uncertain antiquity. At the inner face of the bank at NNW is a subrectangular hut site (SL017-019002-). Within the SW quadrant are the remains of an apparently stone-built rectangular building (SL017-019003-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-019002 Hut site
  Description

  At a rath (SL017-019001-). At the inner face of the rath bank at NNW is a subrectangular hut site (5m N-S; 4.5m E-W) with rounded corners. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-019003 Building
  Description

  At a rath (SL017-019001-). Within the SW quadrant of the rath are the remains of an apparently stone-built rectangular building (17.25m N-S; 12.25m E-W). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the N of two low conjoined hillocks adjacent to the W bank of the Easky River. Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15-20m) on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There are no remains visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL017-021 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  This tomb appears to have been destroyed or is covered over by spoil from the drain to the N which was deepened sometime between the date of the original survey in 1973 and a subsequent inspection in 1993 (SMR file). (Kytmannow 2008, 140) See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) The attached images were taken in 1973. SL017-021----_01.jpg is a view of the tomb from the north. SL017-021----_02.jpg is a view of the tomb from the east. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 24 January 2014

• SL017-096 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  In a thicket of gorse bushes, located in a broad, flat expanse of heather and rush-covered bog in the valley of the Easkey River. The river is c. 400m to E. There is a portal tomb (SL017-021----) c. 80m to ESE. A low, roughly oval concentration or cairn (c. 12m E–W; c. 7m N–S) of moss and sod-covered stones, partly submerged in flat, boggy ground. The surface is uneven, rising and falling in irregular-shaped humps and hollows. Several large stones protrude from the surface, especially along the N perimeter, many entangled in the twisting roots of gorse bushes. At the E end of the cairn, there is a roughly square, vertical-sided pit (1.4m N–S; c. 1.4m E–W; D 0.4m) sunk into the peat. The W side of the pit is faced with a single upright slab (L at least 1.2m N–S). Its height above the wet peat which forms the floor of the cavity is 0.4m but it is set to a depth of at least 0.2m into the peat. The N side of the cavity is faced with drystone walling (H 0.4m above peat) consisting of five courses of thin, horizontally laid slabs. On the S side of the cavity are a number of close-set, medium-sized stones. Covering the cavity is a large capstone (L c. 1.2m N–S; c. 1.3m E–W; T 0.2m). The top of the slab is flush with surface ground level. It rests on the N and S side walls but there is a gap between it and the W side wall. The under-surface of the slab can be seen to slope sharply downwards so that its E end is level with the floor of the pit, thus obscuring that side of the pit. Located 5m to W of the stone-lined pit, a boulder (1.5m N–S; 1m E–W; H 0.4m) protrudes from a hollow in the cairn surface. It rests on a number of smaller stones and overlies a small cavity. A further 1.5m to W of this, there is a stone bank or ‘wall’ (Wth 2-2.4m; H 0.4-0.6m) of loose, jumbled stones, which defines the W end of the cairn, describing a shallow arc S-W–N. A few isolated upright stones protrude from the bog c. 2m to W of the cairn. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 April 2014

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, built c. 1840, now derelict. Lean-to shed to east elevation, detached single-storey building to west. Pitched thatched roof, single off-set smooth-rendered chimneystack. Lime-washed walls. Square-headed window openings, painted six-over-six timber sash windows, single timber casement window c. 1970 to west end. Square-headed door opening, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. All openings to south elevation blocked up. Set back from road.

• Camphill House, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1840. L-plan, two-storey canted bay with hipped roof contiguous with main roof projecting from east leg, single-storey gabled porch in angle between east and north legs, three-bay two-storey lower wing projecting from north leg, two-storey lower wing projecting to rear (west) dropping to, single-storey flat-roofed extension c. 1970, two-storey flat-roofed extension in angle between north and west wings, single-storey flat-roofed porch in angle between extension and north wing, garden room with lean-to glass roof to south of north wing. Pitched slate roofs, half-hipped to north leg, clay ridge tiles, lead hip cappings, gabled dormer to south, red brick corbelled chimneystacks to main house and west wing, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks to north wing, moulded cast-iron gutters, painted timber projecting eaves and bargeboards, decorative bargeboards with profiled brackets on stone corbels to porch. Painted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, moulded architraves to main house with quadrant corners at head, painted stone sills, uPVC casement windows. Shallow pointed-arch transomed and mullioned stairwell window, stained-glass leaded-lights, secondary glazing. Shallow pointed-arch entrance door opening, painted framed and diagonally-sheeted timber double doors, stone step. Two-storey stable buildings to west of main house, pitched slate roof, lime-washed smooth-rendered walling, square-headed window and door openings, original cast-iron diamond-pane window surviving. Located at a distance off main road, approached from north along drive, wrought-iron double gates with cast-iron embellishments on plain smooth-rendered piers with pyramidal caps, surrounded by mature woodland.

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 Camcuill, 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 Camcuill.

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

Name

Camcuill · Camchoill

Area

2,277,672 m² (227.77 ha, 562.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Buncrowey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

294 people lived in 123 households in the Buncrowey electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahowna, Bellafarney, Buncrowey, Carrigeens, Cuskernagh, Kilmacurkan, Knockanbaun, Owenbeg

Placenames

Camcuill 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.