Sandyhill
Sandyhill is a townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Ghainimh.
Parcel 758518
- Area
- 467 m²
- 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.
- Townland
- Sandyhill
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_823 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 125 ha
- 309 acres
- Land parcels
- 219
- registered freehold, median 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
219 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sandyhill, from 8 m² to 29,507 m² (2.95 ha, 7.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 18 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
25 Sept 2026N/a
Retention Permission for a domestic garage as constructed, including an increase in floor area from that previously permitted under Planning Ref. PL 03/992, together with the retention of an additional window to the north gable elevation of the dwelling house and an additional window to the south gable elevation of the dwelling house, and for Retention Permission for the relocation of the approved site entrance from that permitted under Planning Ref. PL 03/992, together with all associated ancillary site development works,
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660393
13 Aug 2026N/a
Retention Permission for a detached domestic garage as constructed, including an increase in floor area from that previously permitted under Planning Ref. PL 03/992, together with the retention of an additional window to the north gable elevation of the dwelling house and an additional window to the south gable elevation of the dwelling house, and for Retention Permission for the relocation of the approved site entrance from that permitted under Planning Ref. PL 03/992, together with all associated ancillary site development works,
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660329
10 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) to retain the revised elevation changes to our dwelling house, elevations differ as to what was previously granted under PL6424/76 (2) to retain the existing detached domestic garage (3) to retain the existing extension to the rear and side of the house (4) to retain the change of use of the original garage to residential (5) to retain the revised site boundaries (6) to retain the location of the site entrances, locations differ as to what was previously granted under PL6424/76 (7) and all associated site works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660219
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- SL042-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a WNW-facing slope down to a bog c. 100m away. When inspected in 1994 it consisted of a raised circular grass-covered area (42.5m N-S; 41.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m). An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.1m) was evident SE-NE. An outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.7m) was evident NW-NNE. 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 revision: 22 April 2010
- SL042-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise. A raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1m) along the SE and SW arcs and by a scarp elsewhere. A shallow external fosse (Wth c. 7m; D 0.10m) is evident along the SE, S and SW arcs. The edge of the rath has recently been truncated at NW. The interior is raised 0.7m to 1.25m above external ground level. A field boundary and a lane skirt the edge of the rath NNW-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
- SL042-028 Ritual site - holy well
Description
At the base of a low SE-facing escarpment, above the flood-plain of the Black River. There are no visible remains of this holy well. It may have been removed during sand extraction activity in the area. 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 Sandyhill.
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 Sandyhill, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_823 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Sandyhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Sandyhill · Cnoc an Ghainimh
- Area
- 1,249,936 m² (124.99 ha, 308.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achonry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Achonry West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 810 people lived in 311 households in the Achonry West electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellahy, Bunnacranagh, Cloonaweema (Co. Mayo), Cloonlaughil, Lavy More (Co. Mayo), Montiagh
- Placenames
- Sandyhill 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.