Magheralackagh

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheralackagh, from 680 m² to 167,541 m² (16.75 ha, 41.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Magheralackagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Magheralackagh 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 Magheralackagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-048 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map by an arc of hachures SSW-SSE, possibly the remains of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It is not visible at ground 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

• SL035-049 Burial
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A human burial was discovered in 1959 during works at 'Slagfield' quarry and was investigated by Rynne (1960-61, 71-3), though some disturbance to the burial had occurred prior to his investigation. A roughly cut grave (L 2m; Wth 1m; D 1m; long axis E-W) contained the skeleton of a young adult. Investigation of the grave-fill revealed 'some animal bones, two small potsherds, a small blue glass bead and three pieces of bottle glass' all possibly thrown accidentally into the grave with the fill (ibid., 71). The potsherds were dated to the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries and indicate that the burial could not be earlier than this. Analysis of the skeleton indicated a chronic tuberculous condition. 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

• SL035-050 Sweathouse
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. At the location indicated is a conical mound (diam. 3.6m; H 1.65m) of earth and stone, adjacent to a field boundary. This is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 05 January 2012

• SL035-057 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture, on an E-facing slope of a ridge. An oval area (int. diam. 21.4m x 20m) enclosed by a ruinous mostly sod-covered stone wall (Wth 1.95m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.35m). A basal course of external wall-facing composed of large limestone slabs is evident, especially along the W arc. There is a possible entrance (Wth 0.9m) at SW. A stone field boundary has been built on top of the cashel wall along the N arc. The interior is stony and uneven. 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

• SL035-060001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on an E-facing slope. Remains of a circular area (diam. c. 70m) defined by an arc of earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.1m) SE-N which is also visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 272-3). There are no visible remains of any enclosing element elsewhere. An E-W field boundary crosses the interior off-centre to S with cross walls to N and S. There is a hut site (SL035-060002-) in the SW quadrant. 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

• SL035-060002 Hut site
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a rath (SL035-060001-), in the angle between the bank of the rath and a field boundary which crosses the interior on an E-W axis. The remains of an oval structure (int. diam. 6.95m E-W) with walls of earth and stone (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.5m). The entrance (Wth 4.7m) is at N. The interior is sloping. 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

• SL035-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a forest, on the E-facing slope of a ridge immediately N of the townland boundary between Magheralackagh and Drumbeg South. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked area (diam. c. 25m) truncated along the NW arc by a field boundary. It is probably one of the two forts (see SL035-092----) recorded (in this case mistakenly) in 1836 in the NW end of Drumbeg South (OSNB vol. 2, 198). 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

• SL035-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a forestry plantation, on an E-facing slope. An oval area (int. diam. 18m x 26m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.75m). The E portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope and the W portion is cut into the upslope (bank at W: int. H 0.2m; ext. H 2m). The bank is overgrown with brambles and the interior is planted with saplings. 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 Magheralackagh.

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magheralackagh.

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

Name

Magheralackagh · An Machaire Leacach

Area

956,941 m² (95.69 ha, 236.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmactranny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyculleen, Cabragh, Coolmurly, Dromore, Drumbeg North, Drumbeg South, Drumbeg West

Placenames

Magheralackagh 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.