Battlefield

130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Battlefield, from 57 m² to 174,966 m² (17.5 ha, 43.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Battlefield 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.

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission to demolish existing dwelling house and construct new replacement dwelling house, garage, access entrance and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360120

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 Battlefield.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 18.5m N-S; 19m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) along the W and N arcs and by a scarp (H 1.2m) along the S arc. The bank is quarried at E. The interior slopes down to S. 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

• SL039-132001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on a low drumlin; on the site of a graveyard (SL039-132002-). Grass-covered foundations of a rectangular structure (ext. 8.7m E-W; int. dims. c. 6.8m N-S) are evident beneath a pile of rubble and field-clearance stones. The wall on the S side (T 0.9m; H 0.5m) is the most clearly defined part. This may be the remains of a small church. A sandstone font (0.35m x 0.3m; H 0.28m) (SL033-115001-) was brought from Battlefield House, c. 750m to SW, to the RC Church in Ballymote in 1948 (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). The original location of this font has not been determined though it is may have come from this site. 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

• SL039-132002 Graveyard
  Description

  Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W). There are no visible remains of the graveyard but the grass-covered foundations of a possible church (SL039-132001-) are evident. 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 Battlefield.

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 Battlefield, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Battlefield, Culfadda6 sales

Name

Battlefield · Cluain Catha

Area

2,632,029 m² (263.2 ha, 650.39 acres)

Civil parish

Toomour, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumrat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 203 households in the Drumrat electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonshanbally, Corradoo, Drumaneel, Killined, Sralea, Tawnaghmore, Tawnalion, Toomour

Placenames

Battlefield 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.