Maghera

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 115 m² to 160,958 m² (16.1 ha, 39.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct 74 no. houses and associated site works. The development will consist of the construction of; • 7 no. one bedroom single storey dwellings, • 15 no. two bedroom 2 storey terraced dwellings, • 38 no. three bedroom 2 storey semi-detached dwellings, • 14 no. four bedroom 2 storey semi-detached dwellings. The proposed development will also include for; • Provision of communal open space areas to include for natural play spaces and kick about areas, • Private open spaces, roads & footpaths, public lighting, soft and hard landscaping and revised boundary treatments. • Proposed new vehicular and pedestrian entrance along the R296 (Tubbercurry road), to include for provision of footpath and road setback along the southern edge of the R296, and a pedestrian crossing to the northern edge of the R296, to provide for enhanced connectivity. • 157 no. car parking spaces (including e-charging points) • Provision for ESB Substation. • Connection to public watermain, surface water drainage, together with all associated site works and services. • Connection to the public sewer along the R296 (Tubbercurry road) and provision of on-site pumping station. • Connection to existing mains water infrastructure and on site surface water drainage works, to serve the development, together with all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560484

• 14 Jan 2022Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of 58 No. residential units (10 No. 1 bed, 20 No. 2 bed, 18 No. 3 bed & 10 No. 4 bed) and all associated site and external works including the widening of the existing site entrance serving an existing adjacent dwelling house (PL Ref. 2451/70) and amendments to the boundaries of that dwelling's site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2213

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 Maghera.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maghera.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Maghera, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1039 (ZIP).

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

Name

Maghera · Marlaigh

Area

231,843 m² (23.18 ha, 57.29 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Ballymote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrennan, Carrigeenmore, Carrownanty, Tieveboy, Woodfield

Placenames

Maghera 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.