Tunnagh

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tunnagh, from 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 147,552 m² (14.76 ha, 36.46 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 Tunnagh 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 Tunnagh 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 Tunnagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL039-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope. A circular area (int. diam. 20m N-S; 22.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 0.4m). The W portion of the level interior has been raised c. 1m to compensate for the hillslope. 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

• SL039-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low E-W ridge overlooked by a parallel higher ridge to N. A slightly raised circular area (24m N-S; 24.6m E-W) bisected by a NNE-SSW field boundary with a drain (W 1m; D 0.3m) on its E side. A narrow earthen bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) with an almost vertical external face defines the W half of the rath. The E half of the rath is defined by a scarp (H 0.8m) except ENE-ESE where a low rise remains. The interior is level. There is a slight hollow without clearly defined limits in the SE quadrant. A telegraph pole stands on the bank at W. 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

• SL039-119 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the N-facing slope of a drumlin. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; its location was indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map only by a kink in the field boundary at NW. The Owenmore River is c. 150m to N. 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

• SL039-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SW-facing slope. This rath is levelled. An arc of earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m) is evident E-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

• SL039-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a S-facing slope and 150m W of the Owenmore River. A slightly raised roughly circular area (18.2m N-S; 16.6m E-W) enclosed by an almost levelled earthen bank (Wth 2.55m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.8m) overgrown with irises. A possible entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at NE. 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 Tunnagh.

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 Tunnagh, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tunnagh · An tSonnach

Area

773,733 m² (77.37 ha, 191.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshalvy, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Kilshalvy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

298 people lived in 115 households in the Kilshalvy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attiville, Cloonaraher, Clooncunny, Emlagh, Greyfield, Kildarganmore, Kilshalvy, Tawnagh

Placenames

Tunnagh 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.