Falnashammer

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Falnashammer, from 7,316 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres) to 290,885 m² (29.09 ha, 71.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Falnashammer 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.

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the proposed construction of a loose house along with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2036

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 Falnashammer.

Recorded monuments

• SL021-059001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a ridge. A raised oval area (36m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.7m) with external stone kerbing exposed along the NW arc; stone kerbing (1m x 0.6m x 0.35m) is also visible on the outer edge of the bank top on the S arc. Faint traces of an external fosse (Wth 4m) are evident. The entrance (Wth 4m) is at SE. There is a possible souterrain (SL021-059002-) in the SE quadrant. A field boundary curves around the fosse along the N arc. 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

• SL021-059002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL021-059001-). A depression (Wth 2.5m) in the SE quadrant of the rath may indicate a collapsed souterrain chamber. 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

• SL021-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying, undulating pasture. A circular area (diam. 21m E-W) enclosed by the heavily eroded remains of an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) W-NE. A modern house and a garden wall are built across the curve of the bank on the E arc and an E-W trackway cuts across the curve of the bank on the S arc. The faint curve of the bank is evident SW-W. The SE half of the interior is heavily disturbed. 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

• SL027-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a rise; the ground slopes down to E and S of the rath. A circular platform (diam. at top 29m; diam. at base c. 55m; H c. 5m) with sloping sides, enclosed on top by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m) topped by one course (Wth 1m) of loose stones. The base of the platform is defined on the upslope by a fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.6m) NW-NE and by a terrace (Wth 2.5m; H 1.1m) elsewhere. The fosse and terrace are in turn enclosed by another terrace, widest along the N arc of the rath (Wth 19.5m; H 3m) but still substantial along the S arc (Wth c. 10m; H 2m). The entrance (Wth 2m) at NNE, with remains of stone lining, has been widened to c. 5m and is approached from the exterior by a gently sloping ramp and a causeway across the fosse. The interior slopes distinctly down to E. Recorded in 1836 as the 'Big Fort' (OSNB vol. 1, 159). 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 Falnashammer.

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 Falnashammer, 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 Falnashammer.

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

Name

Falnashammer · Fál na Seamar

Area

298,066 m² (29.81 ha, 73.65 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysumaghan, 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

Ballysumaghan, Carricknagat, Carrowcrin, Doonally, Knockatober, Lurgan

Placenames

Falnashammer 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.