Farranmaurice

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Farranmaurice, from 166 m² to 200,375 m² (20.04 ha, 49.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Farranmaurice 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.

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a dwelling house, install an effluent treatment unit with soil polishing filter, construct an entrance and carry out ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360114

• 15 May 2017Conditional

  retention of (1) single storey extension to front and rear of single storey detached dwelling house (2) two open sided car ports (3) domestic storage shed with attached open sided covered storage area (4) detached domestic storage sheds and green house

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17184

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: Templehouse and Cloonacleigha Loughs SAC 000636
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Templehouse And Cloonacleigha Loughs 000636

Recorded monuments

• SL032-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a bog-island. A circular area (24m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) SSE-NNE and by a scarp elsewhere. The scarp is topped by a field boundary NNE-SE. Large stones revet the inner face of the bank in places. Numerous gaps occur in the bank. The E two-thirds of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. 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

• SL032-158 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a bog-island. An oval area (30m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) terraced into the hillslope with N and NW portions up to 0.6m below and the S and SE portions up to 1.75m above external ground level. The interior is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) along the NW and N arcs, by the remains of a drystone wall skirting the E arc and by a scarp elsewhere. The N half of the interior is higher than the S half, the change in level marked by a scarp (H 0.5m) revetted by a drystone 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Farranmaurice, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Farranmaurice · Fearann Mhuirís

Area

524,463 m² (52.45 ha, 129.6 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Owenmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

102 people lived in 45 households in the Owenmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncose, Lislea, Rinbaun

Placenames

Farranmaurice 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.