Ardcurley
Townland in the civil parish of Ballysadare, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ard Mhic Thoirealaigh
- Area
- 43.5 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 3,615 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcurley, from 215 m² to 168,776 m² (16.88 ha, 41.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardcurley 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Ardcurley in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Unshin River SAC 001898
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898
Recorded monuments
- SL026-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a low rise c. 70m W of the Unshin River. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 32m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank and a short section of an external fosse. The bank is levelled N-E where the interior is truncated by a drain. Elsewhere the bank (int. H 0.3m) is poorly defined and slopes to the exterior for c. 3.5m. The fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.6m) is evident only S-W. 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 Ardcurley.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardcurley.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ardcurley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ardcurley · Ard Mhic Thoirealaigh
- Area
- 435,397 m² (43.54 ha, 107.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballysadare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Collooney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Collooney electoral division: 3,188 people in 1,209 households; 58% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonamahan, Cooperhill or Gobbadagh, Doorly, Lisconny, Markree Demesne, Mullaghnabreena
- Placenames
- Ardcurley 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.