Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin
Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacallan, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha na gCairrigíní.
Parcel 740444
- Area
- 94,080 m² (9.41 ha, 23.25 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.
- SL034-181 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on a low rise on top of a S-facing slope. A roughly circular area (24m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m) NE-SW and WSW-NNE; the bank is levelled elsewhere. Some stones were noted protruding from the bank in places. 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
- SL034-183 Holed stone
Description
In a wall bounding a narrow road which forms the townland boundary between Brickeen and Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin. A limestone slab (H 0.7m; Wth 0.55) set upright in the stone wall. A circular perforation (diam. 0.15m) centrally placed c. 0.55m below the top of the stone, extends obliquely (D c. 0.35m) through the thickness of the stone. This stone was described by Prof. R. A. S. Macalister (d. 1950) in an undated report (SMR (1989) file). The perforation appears to be a natural phenomenon. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011
- SL034-184 Ringfort - rath
Description
In poorly drained pasture, on the W-facing slope of a low rise. A raised oval area (26m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a slight trace of an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) along the S arc and by a scarp (H 0.6m) along the N arc. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at E. There is a depression (Wth 4m) in the interior and a second larger semicircular hollow (7m x 6m) on the W side may be the remains of 'a large limekiln hole at W edge' noted during a previous site inspection in 1988 (SMR (1989) file). 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
- SL034-185 House - 16th/17th century
Description
In undulating pasture. The ruin of an L-shaped house (see plan in Waterman 1961, fig. 14.8; plan and reconstruction drawing in MacLysaght 1969, f. 96; photo M. A. Timoney 2002c, 272) consisting of a gable-ended main block (int.: 10m N-S; 5.9m E-W) with a square stairway projection at the S end of the W wall (int.: L 2.85m). The main block is two storeys with an attic over a semi-basement. It is built of rubble limestone, harled externally and plastered internally. The walls stand to full height but the structure was repaired by the OPW c. 1940 when breaches were blocked up and concrete lintels inserted over some window and fireplace opes. The main elevation faces E with an off-centre ground-floor doorway near the S end, and centrally placed in two bays are two ground- and two first-floor windows. Only the S side of the doorway survives, with a return socket for a drawbar and an angled slot through the side which probably housed the chain for a yett. The windows are identical plain rectangular embrasures, missing their covering wooden lintels (ibid., 272) and wooden lights. The interior ground level is now higher than the original giving the basement a very squat appearance. Along the base of the E wall is a footing (projecting c. 0.35m) which may be the remains of an earlier structure. Just above it is a shallow scarcement which carried a wooden floor over the basement. The basement has a rebuilt fireplace in the centre of the N wall flanked by two small splayed window embrasures with single rectangular stone lights. A wall-press in the W wall is flanked by two blocked-up opes. Judging by a corresponding plaster gap in the W and E walls, there was a wooden partition on the ground floor between the entrance doorway and the southernmost window. As well as the pair on the E wall, the ground floor also has a similar window in the W and E walls, as well as two small splayed windows flanking the central fireplace in the N wall. The first floor has a similar arrangement of windows with the addition of a second window in the W wall, and a very small window on the E side of the central fireplace in the S wall. The N wall fireplace is set W of centre to allow space for the flue from the fireplaces below (the stack projects on the inside of the wall-face). There is also a partition gap in the plaster in the first floor, but it is located further N than the one below. The attic has two small windows either side of the central chimney stack in the W wall, and a small central fireplace in the S wall with a window on its W side. Except for both gables there is a shallow internal oversail just below the top of the walls (c. 0.2m). A series of drip-stones along these walls suggest that the side walls and those of the stairs may have been topped by battlements with a wall-walk. The inside faces of the stairway projection show the 'ghost' of a wooden stairs with a landing at each corner (scale-and-platt), rising the full height of the house. At ground-floor level in the N wall are two small splayed opes which are probably gun loops; there is another in the S wall. Otherwise the stairs is lit by four rectangular window opes in the W wall. The walls of the projection rise only to the level of the side walls of the main block. According to local tradition the house is named after Captain Baldwin, a soldier of Cromwell, who on returning from a hunting trip found the house burned down by his servants. This folklore is without foundation (Pers. Comm. Conchubhar ÓCrualaoich, Sep. 2018), as in the seventeenth century Bellanagarrigeeny – Béal Átha na gCarraigíní ‘the approach of the ford of rocks’ is sometimes also known as Coylemore – Coill Mór ‘Big Wood’ in the early seventeenth century. The land was granted to Edward Nicholson during the Cromwellian era, and Baldwin only becomes associated with it from 1711 through the marriage of a Sarah Baldwin to an Edward Nicholson. There is a fulacht fia (SL034-245----) c. 40m to E. This is a national monument in State care (no. 373). 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: 20 September 2018
- SL034-245 Fulacht fia
Description
In poorly drained pasture, c. 9m N of a spring. A semicircular mound (6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.4m) of small sandstone fragments in black soil. The boggy opening (Wth 1.5m) faces S. 'Castlebaldwin' (SL034-185----) is c. 40m 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 26.3 ha
- 65 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,414 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin, from 18 m² to 94,080 m² (9.41 ha, 23.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin.
Recorded monuments
- SL034-181 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on a low rise on top of a S-facing slope. A roughly circular area (24m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m) NE-SW and WSW-NNE; the bank is levelled elsewhere. Some stones were noted protruding from the bank in places. 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
- SL034-184 Ringfort - rath
Description
In poorly drained pasture, on the W-facing slope of a low rise. A raised oval area (26m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a slight trace of an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) along the S arc and by a scarp (H 0.6m) along the N arc. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at E. There is a depression (Wth 4m) in the interior and a second larger semicircular hollow (7m x 6m) on the W side may be the remains of 'a large limekiln hole at W edge' noted during a previous site inspection in 1988 (SMR (1989) file). 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
- SL034-185 House - 16th/17th century
Description
In undulating pasture. The ruin of an L-shaped house (see plan in Waterman 1961, fig. 14.8; plan and reconstruction drawing in MacLysaght 1969, f. 96; photo M. A. Timoney 2002c, 272) consisting of a gable-ended main block (int.: 10m N-S; 5.9m E-W) with a square stairway projection at the S end of the W wall (int.: L 2.85m). The main block is two storeys with an attic over a semi-basement. It is built of rubble limestone, harled externally and plastered internally. The walls stand to full height but the structure was repaired by the OPW c. 1940 when breaches were blocked up and concrete lintels inserted over some window and fireplace opes. The main elevation faces E with an off-centre ground-floor doorway near the S end, and centrally placed in two bays are two ground- and two first-floor windows. Only the S side of the doorway survives, with a return socket for a drawbar and an angled slot through the side which probably housed the chain for a yett. The windows are identical plain rectangular embrasures, missing their covering wooden lintels (ibid., 272) and wooden lights. The interior ground level is now higher than the original giving the basement a very squat appearance. Along the base of the E wall is a footing (projecting c. 0.35m) which may be the remains of an earlier structure. Just above it is a shallow scarcement which carried a wooden floor over the basement. The basement has a rebuilt fireplace in the centre of the N wall flanked by two small splayed window embrasures with single rectangular stone lights. A wall-press in the W wall is flanked by two blocked-up opes. Judging by a corresponding plaster gap in the W and E walls, there was a wooden partition on the ground floor between the entrance doorway and the southernmost window. As well as the pair on the E wall, the ground floor also has a similar window in the W and E walls, as well as two small splayed windows flanking the central fireplace in the N wall. The first floor has a similar arrangement of windows with the addition of a second window in the W wall, and a very small window on the E side of the central fireplace in the S wall. The N wall fireplace is set W of centre to allow space for the flue from the fireplaces below (the stack projects on the inside of the wall-face). There is also a partition gap in the plaster in the first floor, but it is located further N than the one below. The attic has two small windows either side of the central chimney stack in the W wall, and a small central fireplace in the S wall with a window on its W side. Except for both gables there is a shallow internal oversail just below the top of the walls (c. 0.2m). A series of drip-stones along these walls suggest that the side walls and those of the stairs may have been topped by battlements with a wall-walk. The inside faces of the stairway projection show the 'ghost' of a wooden stairs with a landing at each corner (scale-and-platt), rising the full height of the house. At ground-floor level in the N wall are two small splayed opes which are probably gun loops; there is another in the S wall. Otherwise the stairs is lit by four rectangular window opes in the W wall. The walls of the projection rise only to the level of the side walls of the main block. According to local tradition the house is named after Captain Baldwin, a soldier of Cromwell, who on returning from a hunting trip found the house burned down by his servants. This folklore is without foundation (Pers. Comm. Conchubhar ÓCrualaoich, Sep. 2018), as in the seventeenth century Bellanagarrigeeny – Béal Átha na gCarraigíní ‘the approach of the ford of rocks’ is sometimes also known as Coylemore – Coill Mór ‘Big Wood’ in the early seventeenth century. The land was granted to Edward Nicholson during the Cromwellian era, and Baldwin only becomes associated with it from 1711 through the marriage of a Sarah Baldwin to an Edward Nicholson. There is a fulacht fia (SL034-245----) c. 40m to E. This is a national monument in State care (no. 373). 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: 20 September 2018
- SL034-245 Fulacht fia
Description
In poorly drained pasture, c. 9m N of a spring. A semicircular mound (6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.4m) of small sandstone fragments in black soil. The boggy opening (Wth 1.5m) faces S. 'Castlebaldwin' (SL034-185----) is c. 40m 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
Architectural heritage
- Castlebaldwin, castle/fortified house, 1600–1650 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey stone fortified house, built c. 1625. Rectangular with square tower at south end of west elevation, machicolation over doorway. Roof missing, pitch evident on gables, stone corbelled chimneystacks on gables. Uncoursed rubble stone walling. Segmental-headed window and door openings, rubble stone voussoirs. Evidence of fireplaces remain in interior. Set in rural landscape some distance away from road.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin, 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 Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin · Béal Átha na gCairrigíní
- Area
- 263,127 m² (26.31 ha, 65.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Lakeview, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 511 people lived in 185 households in the Lakeview electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghcor, Brickeen, Cloghoge Lower, Cloghoge Upper, Drumderry
- Placenames
- Bellanagarrigeeny or Castlebaldwin 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.