Doobeg

149 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doobeg, from 58 m² to 156,876 m² (15.69 ha, 38.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Doobeg 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 Apr 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) the demolition of existing storage buildings (2) construction of a storage shed and a 5 bay open slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18112

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: Doocastle Turlough SAC 000492
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Doocastle Turlough 000492
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Quarryfield West Turlough 001901

Recorded monuments

• SL038-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the NW-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (c. 30m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m) ENE-SE and SSW-SW and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. There are traces of a stone revetment on the internal face of the bank in places. 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

• SL038-083001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A raised oval area (int. diam. 49m N-S; 59m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.2m). A shallow external fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.05m) is evident NE-E and the line of it is indicated elsewhere, except to NW, by a 5m wide band of boggy ground. The interior is poached by cattle and there is a souterrain (SL038-083002-) in the N half. Hawthorn bushes grow on the bank. There is a small quarry immediately 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

• SL038-083002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the N half of the interior of a rath (SL038-083001-). In 1942-4 a souterrain containing three chambers, one of which contained a well, was recorded (ITA). A partially blocked-up opening leads to a water-filled drystone-built passage (Wth c. 0.9m) which extends NE-SW for at least 5m. The walls of the passage are corbelled and covered by roofstones. 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

• SL038-084 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a low dry rise, in otherwise flat poorly drained ground. Kesh Corann, crowned by its cairn (SL040-008----), is visible in the distance to E. A low circular platform (11.4m E-W; H 0.3m at NE), with a slightly concave top, is defined by a fosse (Wth 3.7m) and an external bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.3m). Moss-covered stones are visible barely protruding from the perimeter of the central platform, and from the external bank. A gap (Wth 3.8m) at N is approached from N by a linear depression (L c. 7m; Wth 3.8m). The overall diameter of the external bank is 21m. A ring-barrow (SL038-085----) lies c. 600m to ENE. 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 revised upload: 6 November 2017

• SL038-113 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. A round-topped roughly circular earthen mound (diam. 12.5m at base; H 3.2m), partially eroded by animals and quarrying. Possible stone kerbing was noted along N and NE arcs (pers. comm. M. Keane and J. Farrelly). A circular enclosure (SL038-114----) lies c. 130m 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

• SL038-114 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m). It is not visible at ground level. A possible bowl-barrow (SL038-113---) is c. 130m to 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

• SL038-116 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a forest, on top of a ridge. This rath was levelled c. 1984 during forestry plantation and is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m). It was similarly indicated on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map but with an external fosse indicated E-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

Architectural heritage

• Doobeg House, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1870. Front (south) elevation with central three-arched recessed porch flanked by slightly-projecting gable fronts, rear (north) elevation blank except for two small windows one at ground floor and one at first floor, lower two-storey L-plan wing extends from north-east. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to north-east, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, ashlar stone verges returning on horizontal as springers to gables, profiled extruded aluminium gutters. Painted smooth-rendered walling, first floor platband, impost string at ground floor, moulded plinth. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor, square-headed to first floor, hood mouldings and keystones to gable fronts, limestone sills, hardwood one-over-one casement windows c. 1970, painted timber sash windows in porch. Round-headed arches to porch, one infilled, moulded ashlar limestone archivolts with plain keystones on impost moulding on square ashlar limestone piers. Square-headed door opening within porch, moulded lintel with keystone, painted timber door with three panels. Open pasture to south, walled garden to east, woodland to west, ashlar limestone gate piers with pyramidal caps, original gates missing.

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 Doobeg, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doobeg · An Dumha Beag

Area

3,007,379 m² (300.74 ha, 743.14 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

Ballindoo or Doocastle (Co. Mayo), Ballinvally East, Flughany (Co. Mayo), Kilturra, Mullanabreena, Quarryfield

Placenames

Doobeg 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.