Ballynakill

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 1,752 m² to 135,424 m² (13.54 ha, 33.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballynakill 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 Ballynakill 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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• SL027-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on the summit of a ridge. The rath is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m). The rath is levelled and is now evident as a slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by the grass-covered remains of a levelled bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.4m). The interior is overgrown with rushes. 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

• SL027-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Close to the base of the steep N-facing slope of a ridge and immediately S of a stream. A raised circular area (diam. 35m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.5m) E-NW and by a steep scarp (H 2.6m) elsewhere. Traces of an external fosse (Wth 3-4m) are evident SE-W. The interior slopes down to N and the E half is partially covered with overgrowth. A field boundary curves around the fosse SE-W and a linear field boundary lies immediately to 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

• SL027-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on the summit of a ridge with field boundaries immediately to E and S. A raised circular area (24m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) SE-NNE and truncated by linear field boundaries elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.2m), marked by a dense growth of rushes, is evident SSW-NE. The interior is densely overgrown with rushes. 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

• SL027-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, on the SW-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 24m) defined by a bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m) E-SE and by a scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. A band of dark vegetation (Wth c. 3m) probably indicates the line of a silted-up external fosse. There is a possible entrance (Wth c. 2m) at E. The interior slopes slightly down to S. There are field boundaries immediately to W and 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

• SL027-094001 Church
  Description

  In level low-lying terrain; in the centre of a graveyard (SL027-094002-). Only a featureless portion of the E wall of the church stands (L 8m; H 1.4m; T 0.9m). Built against the base of its W face is a pile of mortared stone which includes a moulded jambstone (SL027-094003-). These may be part of a window surround, possibly the 'lancet window' mentioned by O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 249). These are the remains of the medieval parish church of Ballynakill. 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

• SL027-094002 Graveyard
  Description

  A trapezoidal graveyard (c. 60m NW-SE; c. 40m NE-SW at NW end; c. 50m NE-SW at SE end) enclosed by a stone wall. It was extended c. 25m to the NW prior to 1894 and quernstones found here are in the NMI (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). A small walled-off area against the W wall is the burial place of the Cogan family. The fragmentary remains of the medieval parish church of Ballynakill (SL027-094001-) are in the centre of the interior. It has been noted that the memorials are arranged in an arc in the SE quadrant, perhaps indicating the former existence of a curved enclosing element around the graveyard (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). 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

• SL027-094003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Only a featureless portion of the E wall of Ballynakill church (SL027-094001-) is now upstanding (L 8m; H 1.4m; T 0.9m). Built against the base of its W face is a pile of mortared stone which includes a moulded jambstone. These may be part of a window surround, possibly the 'lancet window' mentioned by O'Rorke ([1889], vol. 2, 249). Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL027-095 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On the NW side of the Douglas River, at the point where a stream emerges from the SW end of a narrow rocky ravine. The area is covered with overgrowth and the well was not located. A secular well, named 'Darby's well' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, c. 20m to SE was also not located. A limekiln (SL026-095001-) lies c. 15m 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakill.

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 Ballynakill, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynakill · Baile na Cille

Area

1,021,061 m² (102.11 ha, 252.31 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

462 people lived in 163 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickcoola, Mullaghmore, Rooghan, Tunnagh

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.