Branchfield

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Branchfield, from 116 m² to 160,921 m² (16.09 ha, 39.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Branchfield 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.

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) alterations and refurbishments to the existing dwelling house (2) new extensions to the front, side and rear of the existing dwelling house (3) new garage (4) a new effluent treatment system and percolation area (5) formation of a new site entrance (6) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560429

• 17 Jun 2024N/a

  to construct of a new dwelling house and domestic garage complete with waste water treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460211

• 9 Jun 2022Conditional

  development consisting of alterations to front, rear and side elevations, together with all ancillary site works and services, previous planning reference PL19/380

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 22203

• 2 Mar 2022N/a

  Development consisting of construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage complete with waste water treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2278

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of a dwelling house and garage and proprietary wastewater treatment system including soil polishing filter and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21427

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of the erection of a new single storey dwelling house, vehicular entrance, piers and gates, effluent treatment system together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19380

• 6 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of the retention of a conservatory as constructed to the side of dwelling house; revised / enlarged application site boundaries to that permitted under PL 99/879; road boundary set back and as constructed of Hallmark Walling in lieu of natural stone wall permitted under PL 99/879

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 1977

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of 1) Planning permission to retain dwelling house as constructed with revised design from that previously granted under PL 77/7290. 2) Planning permission to retain existing shed. 3) Planning permission to decommission existing septic tank and install a new on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 18426

• 10 Oct 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage with integrated agricultural storage, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18407

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 Branchfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Branchfield.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Branchfield, 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, 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 Branchfield.

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

Name

Branchfield · Ceathrú an Fhraoigh

Area

2,037,923 m² (203.79 ha, 503.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmorgan, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

412 people lived in 151 households in the Drumfin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickbanagher, Clooneen, Drumfin, Kilcreevin, Newpark, Spotfield

Placenames

Branchfield 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.