Ardcotten

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcotten, from 904 m² to 144,483 m² (14.45 ha, 35.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 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

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

• 30 Nov 2025Conditional

  construct a new agricultural entrance along with a 4 meter wide farm building access road and associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560497

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  On-site effluent treatment system which consists of a packaged WWTS and a pumped polished filter as constructed which differs to that approved under PL22/309

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560204

• 19 May 2025N/a

  I wish to apply for retention of an on-site effluent treatment system, which consists of a packaged WWTS and a pumped polished filter as constructed which differs from that approved under PL22/309.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560197

• 13 Mar 2025N/a

  Retention of on-site effluent treatment system which consists of a packaged WWTS and a pumped polished filter as constructed which differs to that approved under PL22/309

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560098

• 14 May 2024Conditional

  1. To construct a dwelling house consisting of a dormer to the principal elevation with a flat roof interlink onto a single storey annex to the rear elevation. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. Provide a vehicle & pedestrian access off the public road and setting back the stone wall along the roadside boundary and reinstate the telegraph service. 4. The installation of a proprietary effluent treatment system& polishing filters. 5 .Carrying out all other associated site and ground works. 6. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted with this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460168

• 21 Sept 2022Conditional

  development consisting of retention of dwelling house as constructed and permission for the construction of an on-site PET system and associated percolation area and all associated site development works deemed necessary

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22309

• 1 Nov 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall, install a packaged wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter and carry out ancillary development works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17417

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL026-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope overlooking the Owenmore River to S. A circular area (int. diam. 31m) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 4m). The stony inner bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) is evident all round with an inner facing of upright stones along the E arc and traces of possible outer facing in places also. An entrance (Wth 5.5m) with a causeway over the fosse was noted. The outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 2m; ext. H 1.2m) is evident only S-N. The interior slopes down to S and is covered with overgrowth. A NNW-SSE field boundary crosses the W half of the interior. 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

• Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement stone former glebe house, built 1819, now in use as guest house. Single-bay two-storey wings set back from main front to east and west, single-storey bay window projects from north elevation. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, extruded aluminium gutters on projecting eaves corbel course. Squared rubble limestone walling to south elevation returning on both sides to wings, brick walling to wings, unpainted smooth-rendered walling to north elevation. Square-headed window openings, ground floor windows set in round-headed brick recesses, brick dressings, unpainted sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows to ground floor, six-over-three to first floor. Painted multiple-paned timber canted French window with hipped artificial slate roof. Round-headed door opening, plain render band surround set in round-headed brick recess, hardwood six-panel door, plain-glazed fanlight and sidelights c. 2000, stone steps. Range of two-storey outbuildings around yard to north, pitched slate roofs, painted smooth-rendered walls. Located in extensive grounds, walled garden to north-west, accessed via long avenue from road to east.

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 Ardcotten, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1070 (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 Ardcotten with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardcotten · Ard Coitinn

Area

771,101 m² (77.11 ha, 190.54 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysadare, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Ballysadare East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,387 people lived in 568 households in the Ballysadare East electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bleachgreen, Collooney, Kilnamanagh, Knockbeg West, Largan, Lugnamackan

Placenames

Ardcotten 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.