Church Hill

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Church Hill, from 210 m² to 652,425 m² (65.24 ha, 161.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Church Hill 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 Church Hill 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Templehouse and Cloonacleigha Loughs SAC 000636
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Templehouse And Cloonacleigha Loughs 000636

Recorded monuments

• SL032-194 Souterrain
  Description

  On the lower W-facing slope of a rise. A collapsed opening occurs at the W end of a rectangular chamber (Wth 1.7m N-S; L 5.8m E-W) with a collapsed creepway at the N end of the E side. A second creepway (L c. 2m; Wth 0.6m) at the W end of the S side of chamber 1 leads into chamber 2 (L c. 10m N-S; Wth 2m E-W). A recess is at the S end of the W side of chamber 2. Both chambers are drystone-built and are corbelled to take roof-slabs. Both chambers are high enough for an adult to stand up in, chamber 1 being at least 1.84m H and chamber 2 at least 1.7m (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). A church and graveyard (SL032-195001-; SL032-195002-) lie c. 50m to NE, in the adjoining field. 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

• SL032-195001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on the W-facing slope of a bog-island; in the N half of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL032-195003-). Fragmentary remains of a rectangular church (int. 19m E-W; 6.7m N-S) which, apart from its W gable with short returns of the N and S walls, has been reduced to sod-covered foundations. The surviving walling (T 1m) is built of roughly coursed limestone in a lime mortar. One window, with a flat-headed light, survives in the short return of the S wall. The SE corner stood in 1992 (SMR (1989) file) but had fallen by 2000. It contained an aumbry (Wth 0.4m; H 0.7m) and a plain round-headed piscina (H c. 0.95m), both built of limestone. There is a limestone arch-stone lying on the ground near the E end of the church. These features are all 15th/16th century in date. However, built into the E side of the window in the S wall is a single block (SL032-195005-) with Romanesque motifs including beading and cross-hatching (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). This stone was probably a voussoir from the arch of a doorway of an earlier church. A bullaun stone (SL032-195004-) lies c. 8m to the SW of the church. There is a souterrain (SL032-194----) in the adjoining field also to the SW. A 19th-century farm building, a short distance to the NW, was built using stones derived from the church. 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

• SL032-195002 Graveyard
  Description

  According to local information, the ecclesiastical enclosure (SL032-195003-) was used as a graveyard up to c. 1900 AD. In 1836 'an old abbey and burying ground' were noted here (OSNB vol. 1, 227). There are no visible remains of either graves or grave-markers. There is a souterrain (SL032-194----) in the adjoining field to the SW. 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

• SL032-195003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  An oval area (55m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 1.35m) SW-NNE and by a short stretch of an earthen bank (H c. 0.6m; Wth c. 2m) NNE-NE; otherwise the edge of the enclosure is overlain by a field boundary. To the N of the centre is the ruin of a late medieval church (SL032-195001-), c. 8m SW of which is a bullaun stone (SL032-195004-). According to local information, the enclosure was used as a graveyard (SL032-195002-) though there are no visible remains of any grave-markers. There is a souterrain (SL032-194----) c. 40m to SW in the adjoining field. 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

• SL032-195004 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL032-195003-), lying on the ground c. 8m SW of the remains of a church (SL032-195001-). A moss-covered roughly rectangular sandstone block (H 0.3m; 0.8m x 0.6m) with a circular bowl-shaped depression (diam. 0.32m; D 0.2m) in its upper surface. 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

• SL032-195005 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Built into the E side of the window in the S wall of Church Hill church (SL032-195001-) is a single block with Romanesque motifs including beading and cross-hatching (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). This stone was probably a voussoir from the arch of a doorway of an earlier church. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL032-196 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the lower W-facing slope of a rise above bog. An arc of a scarp (max. H 1m) SE-SW, as indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, encloses the N corner of field, an area measuring 26m NE-SW by 11.5m NW-SE. 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 Church Hill.

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 Church Hill, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Church Hill · Cnoc an Teampaill

Area

875,246 m² (87.52 ha, 216.28 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Owenmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

102 people lived in 45 households in the Owenmore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackcloonagh, Cloonacleigha, Clooncose, Cloondorragha, Drinaun Bog, Lisnagore, Moyrush

Placenames

Church Hill 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.