Treanscrabbagh

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Treanscrabbagh, from 5,011 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres) to 390,311 m² (39.03 ha, 96.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Treanscrabbagh 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 Treanscrabbagh 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Bricklieve Mountains and Keishcorran SAC 001656
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bricklieve Mountains & Keishcorran 001656

Recorded monuments

• SL040-029 Quarry
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1989) and classified as Pit(s) based on local information (M. A. Timoney, 1989). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Upon inspection in 1993 it was concluded that these are small quarry pits. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 16 November 2011

• SL040-081002 Quarry
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1989) and classified as 'Pit(s). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Its inclusion in the SMR is based on evidence from an aerial photogrpah (GSIAP, G 220-19). In rough upland pasture, in the Bricklieve Mountains and to the N of a rath (SL040-081001-). Upon inspection in 2001 a series of quarry pits, of various shapes (circular, subcircular, oval and irregular) and sizes (max. dim. 10-20m; D 0.5-1.5m) were identified. All appear to be of relatively recent date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• SL040-082001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on a W-facing slope of the Bricklieve Mountains. An oval area (int. diam. 27m N-S; 20.7m E-W) enclosed by a ruinous stone wall (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.75m). The wall is constructed of large limestone slabs placed on their sides. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.2m) at W. The interior is mostly level; sod-covered stones may be the remains of a ruined internal structure. Field walls (SL040-082002-) lie to N and S of the cashel. A passage tomb (SL040-097001-) and two short cists (SL040-097002-) lie c. 80m to E. 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

• SL040-082002 Field system
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on a W-facing slope in the Bricklieve Mountains and adjacent to a cashel (SL040-082001-). A ruinous discontinuous sod-covered field boundary (Wth 1.4m; H 0.6m), of similar construction to the cashel wall, is evident on the N side of the cashel. A second more continuous field boundary (Wth 1.2m; H 0.5m) of limestone and sandstone is adjacent to the S side of the cashel. A passage tomb (SL040-097001-) and two short cists (SL040-097002-) lie c. 80m to E. 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

• SL040-084 Enclosure
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on a shelf on a W-facing slope. A rectangular area (int. dims. 9.5m x 7.4m) enclosed by a ruinous stone wall (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m) constructed of limestone slabs embedded on their sides. Several gaps were noted in the wall. 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

• SL040-085001 Enclosure
  Description

  In upland pasture, on a broad shelf on a W-facing slope in the Bricklieve Mountains. An irregular area (35.4m N-S; 30m E-W) defined NNE-SSW by an arc of ruinous stone wall (Wth 2.2m; H 0.5m), on the almost straight W side, where there is a steep W-facing slope at the terrace edge, by traces of a stone wall and on the straight N side by a linear field wall (Wth 1.3m) that continues to E beyond the limit of the enclosure. Boulders protrude randomly from the curving wall, which is low and sod-covered. The interior ground level appears slightly higher in the W half than elsewhere. There is a small sod-covered heap of stones (2.6m E-W; 2.3m N-S; H 0.4m) to E of the centre. An E-W field boundary wall crosses the S edge of the interior. There is a gap (Wth 0.3m) at S, flanked by two upright slabs, set 0.3m back from the terminals of the enclosing wall. A larger gap (Wth 2.3m) at SSE is now infilled by the E-W field boundary wall. There is a cashel (SL040-085002-) on a higher terrace on the same slope c. 100m to SE. 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

• SL040-085002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In upland pasture, on a fairly level terrace at the base of a precipitous W-facing ridge slope in the Bricklieve Mountains. The W edge of the terrace has a naturally raised rocky lip that hides the cashel from view and an undulation in the ridge slope shelters the cashel at SE and S. A broadly oval area (19.6m NW-SE; 16.5m NE-SW) defined by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 1.8m; H 0.6m) of large limestone slabs and boulders, largely sod-covered. The wall is low and dilapidated. At SE where it backs on to rising ground it has a pronounced internal slump but barely rises above the external ground level. The interior is level but a scattering of sod-covered stones produces an uneven surface. There is an entrance feature at NE in the form of a passage (L 2m) flanked by large stones, that narrows from interior (Wth 2.2m) to the exterior (Wth 1m). A possible hut site (SL040-085003-) projects from the external face of the cashel wall at NE. There is a hut site (SL040-085004-) 2m to E; an enclosure (SL040-085005-) abuts the cashel wall at W. Another enclosure (SL040-085001-) is on a lower terrace on the same slope c. 100m to NW. 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

• SL040-085003 Hut site
  Description

  Projecting from the external face of the NE wall of a cashel (SL040-085002-), to the E of the cashel entrance, is a sod-covered stone platform (c. 4m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.65m). On the S side of the platform, at its intersection with the cashel wall, there is a narrow break (Wth 0.6m) in the external face of the cashel wall that opens into a linear hollow (Wth 1.3m) extending for 3.2m to S through the thickness of the wall. 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

• SL040-085004 Hut site
  Description

  At the base of a steep ridge, 2m E of a cashel (SL040-085002-). The foundations of a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 6m E-W; 4m N-S), defined by well-preserved wall-footings (Wth 0.7m; H 0.4m) with internal and external facing of limestone slabs set on edge. 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

• SL040-085005 Enclosure
  Description

  Attached to the external E face of a cashel wall (SL040-085002-). A rectangular area (c. 16m N-S; 6.5m E-W) defined by a wall of large, contiguous boulders intersecting with the cashel wall at SW and NNW. Stones and boulders are scattered throughout the interior, some of which appear to form E-W sub-divisions that divide the space into two or possibly three compartments. Appended to the N end is another smaller subrectangular compartment (6.3m N-S; 5.5m E-W). Extending from the NW corner of the latter is a barely discernible field boundary wall (Wth c. 1m) that extends to N, then curves to NE to terminate at the foot of the steep ridge face, enclosing a fairly level space (c. 40m N-S; c. 20.5m E-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

• SL040-097001 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Carn B in the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery. At the cliff-walled northern extremity of one of the N-S aligned ridges that form the Bricklieve Mountains. This is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). A N-facing undifferentiated passage tomb, exposed in 1911 (Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger 1912, 321-3), stands towards the northern end of a circular cairn (diam. 27m; max. H 5m). Around the southern half of the perimeter and half way down the cairn there are traces of the internal revetment of a drystone wall (ibid.). Surviving kerbstones indicate an original cairn diameter of 23m. The roofed chamber measures 2.85m from a sillstone at the front to the backstone. It widens from 0.6m at the front to 1.25m at the rear and increases in height from some 0.9m to c. 1.5m. Two further sillstones divide it into three compartments, the innermost slightly longer and also wider than the others. The innermost sillstone stands between two jamb-like stones set inside the chamber walls. It would seem that this feature is incorrectly surveyed on the published plan (Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger 1912, Pl. 17) and interpreted as a cist. Passage tomb art has been discovered on the N jambstone and adjacent orthostat (Hensey and Robin 2012). Three large slabs roof the tomb. The published plan shows a recess to the right of the sillstone at the front of the tomb. It does seem that this is not an original feature but the result of partial collapse. Immediately forward of the front sill there are two opposed slabs, the bases of both exposed, and each apparently deliberately propped against the outer ends of the sides of the tomb. Their status is uncertain. During the 1911 investigation burnt human bone and some pottery fragments were found in the tomb and two short cists (SL040-097002-), apparently secondary, were uncovered on the E side of the cairn of the passage tomb. A cashel (SL040-082001-) and field wall (SL040-082002-) lie c. 80m to W. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 82) 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). Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 24 September 2012 See linked documents with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) together with plans and sections of the monument (surveyed 1996). Date of upload: 27 May 2013

• SL040-097002 Cist
  Description

  Within the E side of the cairn of a passage tomb (SL040-097001-). Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger (1912, 322) described two short cists containing 'burnt bone-dust' which were found in a secondary position in the cairn. The northern cist measured '1 foot 7 inches [0.48m] by 8 inches [0.2m]' and was '1 foot [0.3m] high' while the southern cist was 'smaller and much dilapidated' (ibid.). There is a cashel (SL040-082001-) and field wall (SL040-082002-) c. 80m to W. (Waddell 1970, 129; Waddell 1990, 132) 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

• SL040-221 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'House Site'. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. In rocky pasture, on a W-facing slope of the Bricklieve mountains. The remains of a rectangular stone-built structure (int. dims.: L 9.1m; Wth 3.5m). The walls (T 1.6m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.75m) are sod-covered. The entrance (Wth 0.8m) is in the SE side. The interior is slopes from E to W. The upstanding remains are probably 1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 06 January 2012

• SL040-222 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Lime Kiln'. In rough rocky pasture, built into a W-facing slope of the Bricklieve Mountains. A circular stone-filled shaft (int. diam. 2.05m) enclosed by a drystone wall (T 0.8m; int. H 1.45m; ext. H 0.25m). The opening (Wth 0.95m) is on the W downslope side. It is likely to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 06 September 2012

• SL040-223 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP and classified 'House Site'. In rough rocky pasture, on an E-facing shelf in the Bricklieve mountains. The remains of a rectangular stone-built structure (int. dims: 6.1m x 5.3m). The sod covered walls (T 1.1m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.75m) are constructed of limestone slabs placed on their sides with numerous gaps. A roofless structure is indicated here on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The surrounding field walls are of similar construction. It is likely to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 06 January 2012

• SL040-242 Enclosure
  Description

  Not listed in either the SMR (1989) or RMP (1995). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. On a steep WNW -facing slope in pasture. Roughly rectangular raised area (dims. c.14.5m NNE-SSW; 7.2m WNW-ESE). The ESE side is formed by a relatively modern, roughly-built drystone field boundary, aligned roughly NNE-SSW. The wall has a slight WNW-facing kink at it's SSW end. The remainder of the monument is positioned to the WNW of this wall and is defined by a broad scarp composed of earth and stone (Wth. c.2m - c.3m; H 0.2m- 0.55m). There are traces of a possible fosse (Wth. 1.2m; max. D 0.2m at the foot of the scarp. Scarp and fosse are best preserved on the SSW and WNW sides. This may be the remains of an animal pen of post-1700 AD date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Treanscrabbagh, 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 Treanscrabbagh.

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

Name

Treanscrabbagh · An Trian Screabach

Area

1,668,389 m² (166.84 ha, 412.27 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Templevanny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

241 people lived in 88 households in the Templevanny electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bricklieve, Carricknahorna West, Carrowkeel, Cloghoge Lower, Cloghoge Upper, Treanmacmurtagh, Tully

Placenames

Treanscrabbagh 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.