# Altans, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templeboy, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Na hAlltáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 577,615 m² (57.76 ha, 142.73 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,131 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templeboy, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/templeboy.md
- Barony: Tireragh
- Electoral division: Templeboy North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 314 people lived in 112 households in the Templeboy North electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44928
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200017
- Centre: latitude 54.241763, longitude -8.841483 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altans, from 399 m² to 166,927 m² (16.69 ha, 41.25 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 762313: 166,927 m² (16.69 ha, 41.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762313.md
- Parcel 733995: 86,155 m² (8.62 ha, 21.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733995.md
- Parcel 767486: 68,817 m² (6.88 ha, 17.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/767486.md
- Parcel 740325: 57,043 m² (5.7 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740325.md
- Parcel 765882: 44,228 m² (4.42 ha, 10.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765882.md
- Parcel 763481: 28,761 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763481.md
- Parcel 727252: 25,111 m² (2.51 ha, 6.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/727252.md
- Parcel 758374: 13,126 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758374.md
- Parcel 780803: 10,163 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780803.md
- Parcel 771671: 8,434 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771671.md
- Parcel 758349: 6,271 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758349.md
- Parcel 758350: 5,992 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758350.md
- Parcel 750064: 5,668 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/750064.md
- Parcel 3014694: 5,359 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3014694.md
- Parcel 745143: 4,594 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/745143.md
- Parcel 2632269: 4,138 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2632269.md
- Parcel 752491: 3,951 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752491.md
- Parcel 3295017: 2,238 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3295017.md
- Parcel 750996: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/750996.md
- Parcel 764985: 439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/764985.md
- Parcel 754468: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/754468.md
- Parcel 3014494: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3014494.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Altans in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Altans in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Altans.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL012-049: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-049----. In pasture, situated on level ground close to the W bank of a stream. Raised circular area (diam. c. 16m) enclosed by a much degraded, low earthen bank (Wth. c. 3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.1m) which may have been faced with stone. A field fence, on a E-W axis, cuts the S edge of the rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL018-018: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-018----. Situated on a low rise in undulating pasture. Depicted on both editions of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. 20-25m). It appears to comprise a raised circular area enclosed by a bank, however, dense overgrowth rendered detailed inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL018-022: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-022----. Situated atop a NW-SE ridge in undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. c. 20-25m) enclosed by a stony bank (ext. H 1.4m at NW). A modern field boundary which extends around the site at NE may respect the curve of a pre-existing fosse. At the foot of the bank at SW and W is a ditch or gully (Wth 1.8m; D 1m) which then swings away from the site and extends for c. 10m NW. This appears to be a relatively modern feature. The site is densely overgrown with scrub rendering detailed inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Altans, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Altans.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/altans.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/altans.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/altans.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Altans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyeeskeen: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballyeeskeen.md
- Ballyglass: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballyglass-200119.md
- Barnacoghil: https://everytownland.com/sligo/barnacoghil.md
- Carrowcor: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowcor.md
- Doonbeakin: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonbeakin.md
- Dunowla: https://everytownland.com/sligo/dunowla.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/altans
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/altans