Ardcumber

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcumber, from 37 m² to 90,080 m² (9.01 ha, 22.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 15 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.

• 24 Jun 2022Conditional

  development consisting of (1) demolish existing derelict dwelling & sheds (2) construct a replacement dwelling, domestic garage, boundary walls, upgrade existing entrance and connect to services. This development is located on the curtilage of a bridge spanning the Douglas River, a protected structure RPS no. 18.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22217

• 11 May 2022N/a

  development consisting of (1) demolish existing derelict dwelling & sheds (2) construct a replacement dwelling, domestic garage, boundary walls, upgrade existing entrance and connect to services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22162

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a single storey extension to side of dwelling house (2) permission for alterations to elevations of dwelling to include installation of new window and door to side (3) permission to widen existing vehicular entrance to site to allow for adequate onsite parking with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2249

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL027-106 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying rough pasture, on top of a low ridge. An oval area (32m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; max. int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.1m) with the remains of stone facing noted on the external face. There is a gap (Wth 2m) in the S arc. The interior is slightly concave and it slopes down to S. The slightly raised central area appears to be composed of large stones now hidden in long grass and may be result of field clearance. The E-facing scarp (H 1m; long axis N-S) located c. 5m in from the E bank separates the higher W portion of interior from the lower E portion. There are two other raths (SL027-105----; SL027-107----) c. 30m to W and c. 50m to E respectively. 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

• SL027-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a low ridge. A circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth c. 3m) along the S arc. The narrow external fosse along the E arc may be of recent construction. The interior is slightly concave with some large boulders scattered across the surface. There are two other raths (SL027-105----; SL027-106----) c. 110m and c. 50m to W respectively. 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

• SL027-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of a ridge. A circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 3m; max. int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.4m) evident along the W arc. The bank is highest along the W arc with remains of stone facing visible. The bank elsewhere is low. A N-S field boundary overlies the fosse area at E. 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

• SL027-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a slight rise at the base of a ridge. A circular area (22m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) along the SW, NW and NE arcs and by a scarp (H 1.4m) along the SE arc. The SE portion of the interior is raised 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

Architectural heritage

• Church/chapel, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay half-dormer-attic stone former Methodist chapel, built 1896-7, shallow gable-fronted porch centred on east gable. Converted to domestic residence c. 1995, single-storey extension with single-pitched roof added to west gable, glass-sided rectangular bay window added to east end of south elevation. Steeply pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, two gable-fronted dormer windows to south side c. 1995, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack on south slope, moulded cast-iron rainwater goods. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling (originally rendered) side elevations, squared-and-snecked rubble limestone walling to gables, oculus above porch, dressed ashlar quoins, dressed stone verge copings on corbelled springers. Single lancet window openings to north and south elevations, limestone sills, painted timber casement windows c. 1995. Single lancet window to porch gable, sandstone surround, limestone sill, painted timber casement window c. 1995. Square-headed doorway to south elevation of porch, dressed sandstone surround, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Set back from road, well maintained riverside garden, rubble stone boundary wall.

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 Ardcumber, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1164 (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 Ardcumber with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardcumber · Ard Chomair

Area

655,729 m² (65.57 ha, 162.03 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcolumb, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkeeran, Carrowcashel, Carrownspurraun, Cooperhill, Cuiltylough, Rusheen

Placenames

Ardcumber 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.