Riverstown

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverstown, from 113 m² to 209,252 m² (20.93 ha, 51.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Riverstown 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.

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  Construction of a new bungalow type dwelling. Construction of a new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area in accordance with EPA Code of Practice. Construction of a new vehicular entrance and access road to serve dwelling. All associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560256

• 24 Oct 2023Conditional

  Planning permission for a renewable wind energy development of a one (1) turbine wind farm. The proposed development will be located in the townland of Riverstown, approximately 2.2km north of Gorteen, Co. Sligo. The development will comprise of one (1) electricity generating wind turbine, which will have an overall maximum tip height of 180 meters, comprising a tower of nominally 112 meters high, and rotor diameter of up to 136 meters. The development will consist of permanent access tracks, hardstandings, an electrical substation building, an underground cable trench and ancillary site works. The maximum output capacity of the wind farm will be c.3.5mw.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360288

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of 1. Retention of window opening on existing dwelling house. 2. Planning Permission for retention of existing percolation area as constructed. 3. Planning Permission to install a proprietary effluent treatment system and ancillary site development works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 19411

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 Riverstown.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-122001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at the N end of a drumlin. A slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 23.9m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m). Though the N portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope, it still retains a gentle slope down to N. A semicircular slightly raised annexe (int. diam. 22.2m N-S; 20.6m E-W) (SL039-122002-) adjoins the W edge of the rath and is defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m). 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

• SL039-122002 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, at the N end of a drumlin ridge. A semicircular slightly raised annexe (int. diam. 22.2m N-S; 20.6m E-W) adjoins the W side of Riverstown rath (SL039-122001-). The interior is defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m). Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL039-123001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the N end of a drumlin. A slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 21.3m N-S; 22.2m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.1m). The bank is wide along the N arc (Wth 4.7m) and narrow along the S arc (Wth 1.9m). An external fosse is indicated by a concentric band of irises along the S arc. The interior is uneven and there is a possible souterrain (SL039-123002-) in the S half. A NE-SW field boundary crosses the interior, off centre to E. Remains of cultivation ridges are visible in the field immediately to N. 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

• SL039-123002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the S half of the interior of a rath (SL039-123001-). A flat slab (L 0.9m; Wth 0.65m) embedded in the ground may be a roof lintel of a souterrain. 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 Riverstown.

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 Riverstown, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1075 (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 Riverstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Riverstown · Na Róidíní

Area

1,357,512 m² (135.75 ha, 335.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshalvy, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Kilshalvy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

298 people lived in 115 households in the Kilshalvy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calteraun, Cloonanure, Cloonaraher, Cloonena, Drumrolla, Greyfield, Kilshalvy

Placenames

Riverstown 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.