Rathnakelliga

164 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathnakelliga, from 1 m² to 46,942 m² (4.69 ha, 11.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 98 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1MIX – mixed uses (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4SLR - Strategic Land Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
  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.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) alterations and refurbishment and part demolitions to existing house (2) modifications to the existing window opes (3) new single storey and two storey extension to the rear of the existing house (4) and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560442

• 14 Aug 2024N/a

  The development will consist of the CONSTRUCTION OF 2NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES, NEW PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO GRATTAN COURT INCLUDING CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460268

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the retention of domestic attic conversion including existing windows at first floor level

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21248

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage together with all associated site works and ancillary services - CONDITION NO. 8 COMPLIED WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21199

• 16 Mar 2021N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage together with all associated site works and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2189

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of 1. Reconstruct a two storey terrace house which differs from the original that was previously demolished under PL 11/66. 2. Reconnection to existing site services & 3. All associated site works deemed necessary - CONDITION NO. 7 COMPLIED WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1989

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 Rathnakelliga.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge and on the S side of a road overlooking Ballymote town to SW. A circular area (int. diam. 34m) enclosed by a heavily eroded inner bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.9m) best preserved SW-WNW. Stone facing is evident on the external face of the bank. An intervening fosse (Wth 5.5m) is evident SE-WNW. A possible outer bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) survives S-WNW. The interior slopes down to NE. A road skirts the bank at E. Mature deciduous trees grow on the rath. 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 Rathnakelliga.

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 Rathnakelliga, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1073 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rathnakelliga · Ráth na Ceilge

Area

198,121 m² (19.81 ha, 48.96 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Ballymote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymote, Bellanascarrow West, Carrigans Upper, Carrowcauly or Earlsfield, Keenaghan, Stoneparks

Placenames

Rathnakelliga 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.