Altvelid
Altvelid is a townland in the civil parish of Killerry, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Allt Bhéalada.
- Area
- 58.8 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 2,914 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altvelid, from 92 m² to 94,737 m² (9.47 ha, 23.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jul 2026N/a
We, St. Michaels GAA Club, wish to apply for full planning permission for the following works: 1. permission to upgrade the existing clubhouse from a single storey to a two-storey structure, the extended building will encompass larger changing room facilities on the ground floor. 2. The 1st floor will include a meeting room, kitchen area, viewing balcony and additional toilet facilities. 3. To construct 2 no. ground floor single storey extensions to the existing clubhouse to include additional toilet facilities and storage facilities. 4. To construct a pedestrian pathway around the perimeter of the facility to include low level lighting. 5. To construct a pedestrian pathway to connect both existing GAA pitches. 6. To construct spectator perimeter fencing on both pitches. 7. To fit solar panels to the roof of the new 2 storey building. 8. To construct a new spectator stand, scoreboard and all ancillary works. The works are located at St. Michaels GAA Club, Kingsfort, Ballintogher, Co. Sligo.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660268
22 Apr 2020Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a domestic garage together with all associated ancillary works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 15132
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Altvelid.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Altvelid.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Altvelid.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Altvelid, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Altvelid.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Altvelid with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Altvelid · Allt Bhéalada
- Area
- 587,612 m² (58.76 ha, 145.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killerry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Ballintogher East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 661 people lived in 240 households in the Ballintogher East electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumduff (Co. Leitrim), Kingsfort, Mullaghfin, Rathgeean, Tiratick, Toberanania
- Placenames
- Altvelid 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.