Ballyglass

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 1,598 m² to 266,261 m² (26.63 ha, 65.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyglass 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 the townland of Ballyglass.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyglass.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyglass House, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1870. Ground floor together with two-storey gabled second end bay from west end of front (north) elevation projecting forward, forming a balcony to first floor rooms at either side of two storey projecting bay and an open porch at ground floor level to west of two-storey projecting bay. Single bay single-storey extension to east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots, projecting open-bed pedimented timber eaves to projecting two-storey bay carried on paired brackets, cast-iron gutters on overhanging eaves on paired brackets. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows to front elevation, with two-over-two coupled sash windows to two-storey projecting bay. Square-headed door opening, painted double panelled timber doors, tiled floor to open porch with three chamfered square profile columns set on stone plinths, moulded cornice carrying floor to balcony above. Macadamed area to front, with lawns and large garden to south. Freestanding stone gate screen to main north entrance to house, built c. 1860. Central carriageway flanked by quadrant sweeps. Tooled coursed ashlar limestone plinth walls to sweeps, segmental-topped copings, wrought-iron railings with cast-iron embellishments. Tooled coursed ashlar limestone piers to gates end of sweep walls, moulded plinths, fluted frieze, moulded cornice, pyramid-topped cap. Squared and coursed rubble stone end piers, pyramidal cap stones. Pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron embellishments, cylindrical carriage wheel deflectors, bitmac driveway, cattle-grid. Fronting main 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballyglass, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1160 (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 Ballyglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballyglass · An Baile Glas

Area

547,048 m² (54.7 ha, 135.18 acres)

Civil parish

Calry, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Calry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,792 people lived in 654 households in the Calry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Colgagh, Faughts, Hazelwood Demesne, Kiltycahill, Lisgorey

Placenames

Ballyglass 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.