Rathdoony More

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathdoony More, from 96 m² to 306,338 m² (30.63 ha, 75.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Rathdoony More 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.

• 25 Sept 2024Refused

  land filling works for the purposes of agriculture, with materials consisting of topsoil to an area of 1.18 hectares

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460325

• 10 Aug 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, together with all associated landscaping and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22275

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with an amended design of that granted and subsequently duration extended under application reference PL 08/518, installation of proprietary effluent treatment system/polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17285

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 Rathdoony More.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-045 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NNE-facing slope. A raised oval area (18m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by the footings of a stone wall (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.25; Wth at top 1.2m) SSE-NW and by a rocky scarp (H 1.75m) elsewhere. The footings of the wall are now grass covered and difficult to distinguish because of the generally rocky nature of the site. The N half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. The interior is undulating due to the presence of grass-covered rocks, clear of overgrowth and slopes gently down to NNE. The interior is said to have been used as a children's burial ground (SL033-045001-). One of four forts (see SL033-087001-; SL033-188001- and SL033-188002-) referred to in this townland in 1836 (OSNB vol. 1, 404-5). 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

• SL033-045001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Located c. 2.1km NW of Ballymote. According to local information, a cashel (SL033-045----) was used as a children's burial ground (pers. comm. M. Keane and J. Farrelly). 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

• SL033-086 Enclosure
  Description

  At the N end of a drumlin, surrounded by bog to N, E and W. A raised circular area (int. diam. 28.9m N-S; 26.8m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m). The interior slopes down to the E and there is a circular dump of stones (2.2m x 2.2m; H 1.5m) in the N half. 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

• SL033-087001 Castle - motte
  Description

  On top of a ridge, in undulating pasture. A circular conical mound (H c. 6m) with a flat top (diam. 29m), enclosed by a fosse (Wth 8m) with an external earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 2m). The entrance (Wth 3.5m) is at S where there is a ramp up to the side of the mound. There is an oval hollow (L c. 5m) in the E half of the top of the mound. Knox (1911, 222-3) considered the site had 'the appearance of a high Norman mote', and it is listed as a motte by Glasscock (1975, 109). This may be the site of the castle of Ath-na-Gail, erected in 1265 by MacWilliam Burke and demolished in 1270 by Aedh O Connor (Graham 1988, 121). 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 Rathdoony More.

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 Rathdoony More, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1038 (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 Rathdoony More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Rathdoony More · Ráth Dúna Mór

Area

1,953,507 m² (195.35 ha, 482.72 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, Camross, Cloonkeevy, Cluid, Derroon, Emlaghnaghtan, Rathdoony Beg

Placenames

Rathdoony More 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.