Ardnaglass Upper

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnaglass Upper, from 1,300 m² to 185,134 m² (18.51 ha, 45.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardnaglass Upper 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ardnaglass Upper 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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex SAC 000623
• Special Protection Area: Sligo/Leitrim Uplands SPA 004187
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ben Bulben, Gleniff And Glenade Complex 000623

Recorded monuments

• SL005-091 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL005-092001 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL005-137 Sweathouse
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse' in both. Located on a moderate N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Rectangular structure (max. internal dims. 1.6m SW-NE; 1.3m NW-SE; H 1.1m) with drystone limestone rubble walls (T 0.3-0.4m). The walls are of un-mortared limestone flags and rubble laid in rough courses. The roof is corbelled with limestone slabs and is covered with sod externally. An irregular break (Wth 0.8m; H 0.7m) in the NW wall marks the position of the original entrance. The entrance was originally lintelled but has now collapsed. This is a post-1700 structure. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 July 2012

• SL005-159 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised roughly rectangular area (dims. 6m NW-SE; 5m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 2.4m int. H 0.35m). The original entrance to the site is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-160 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Circular area (diam. 2.6m) defined by a bank of earth (Wth 0.9m; int. H 0.2m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The interior of the site is slopes slightly from W-E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-161 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Raised roughly rectangular area (dims. 21m NNW-SSE; 14m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 0.7m; int. H 0.6m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The remains of the wall encloses the site NW-S and are made up of un-coursed, un-mortared limestone rubble. From S-NW a NW-SE orientated drystone field wall has been built along the line of the enclosure wall. A small quarry, now disused, lies immediately outside the enclosure at SW. A break (Wth 2m) in the wall at E marks the position of the original entrance. The external ground level is higher than the interior SE-W while elsewhere the interior is raised above external ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-179 Megalithic structure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardnaglass Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Ardnaglass Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ardnaglass Upper · Ard na nGlas Uachtarach

Area

802,242 m² (80.22 ha, 198.24 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Rossinver West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rossinver West electoral division: 243 people in 79 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaderg, Barnarobin, Cloyragh, Gortnaleck

Placenames

Ardnaglass Upper 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.