Bearvaish

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bearvaish, from 1,147 m² to 129,463 m² (12.95 ha, 31.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Bearvaish 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 Bearvaish 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 Bearvaish.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-016 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope below the crest of a flat-topped ridge; immediately W of a road and overlooking the Owenmore River to W. An oval flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 22m; H 3m) with sloping sides. The mound has been eroded by cattle giving it a terraced appearance. It is overgrown mainly with small trees. 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). Attached images: SL030-016----_01.JPG Viewed from E SL030-016----_02.JPG Viewed from NE Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-058001 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on top of an elongated flat-topped knoll with high steep rocky sides, giving excellent views in all directions. A subrectangular area (57m NE-SW; 25.7m NW-SE) defined on the SE side by a steep linear scarp (H 1m) with exposed limestone bedrock, on top of a less steep slope (H c. 6-7m). The SW side (H c. 2.5m), also broken by rock outcrops, is defined by a steep but lower scarp with an external fosse (Wth 7m; ext. D 1m). Skirting the fosse is a stony bank (Wth 1.2m), possibly a field boundary, that extends to NNE. The NW side is defined by a scarp (H c. 7-8m) which appears even higher and steeper than the SE side and in plan projects outward slightly in a shallow convex curve. The NE side comprises a straight scarp (H 2-2.5m) incorporating, slightly SE of centre, an entrance in the form of a slumped ramp-like gap (Wth 2m). A narrow stony bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.65m) extends across the SW end of the interior c. 2m in from the edge of the scarp. A large, roughly D-shaped raised area (c. 28m NW-SE; c.18m NE-SW) abuts the NW side of the interior and is defined at NW by the edge of the enclosure and elsewhere by a curving scarp (H c. 1m). Immediately to SW is a possible hut site (SL039-058002-). The floodplain of the Owenmore River is to the 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

• SL039-058002 Hut site
  Description

  On top of a narrow ridge and immediately SW of the fosse of a moated site (SL039-058001-) and separated from it by a stony bank. An oval area (7m N-S; 4m E-W) enclosed by a low bank (Wth 3-3.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) with a gap (Wth 3m) at N. At NE the enclosing bank appears to merge with traces of a stony bank (Wth 1.2m), possibly the remains of a field boundary, which extends to the NNE. 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

• SL039-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A raised roughly D-shaped area (int. dims. 23m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.65m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.45m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth at top 3.55m; D 0.3m). The bank is straightened on W side where it is incorporated into a field boundary system. The interior is slightly concave and slopes gently down to E. There is an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at E close to which is an oval wet area (8.5m by 11.5m). The bank is heavily overgrown with bushes. 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

• Big Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-span road-over-river stone bridge, built c. 1800. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling to spandrels, roughly coursed rubble limestone parapet walls, roughly-dressed parapet copings partly replaced in insitu concrete c. 1970, splayed rubble stone buttressing to east and west sides of south elevation. Round-headed arches, irregular tooled limestone voussoirs, lower level of piers and cutwaters encased in insitu concrete c. 1970, triangular dressed stone cutwaters evident above concrete, pyramidal dressed stone cappings to cut-waters. Twin bitmac carriageway deck, narrow grass verges. Spans east-west over Owenmore River.

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 Bearvaish, 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 Bearvaish.

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

Name

Bearvaish · Beirbhéis

Area

1,044,657 m² (104.47 ha, 258.14 acres)

Civil parish

Drumrat, 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

Ardree, Ballynacarriga, Ballynakillew, Carrickrathmullin, Carrigeen, Cloonagun, Coagh, Knockanaher, Knockatelly, Knockgrania, Lissananny Beg

Placenames

Bearvaish 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.