Aughris

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughris, from 1,839 m² to 107,128 m² (10.71 ha, 26.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aughris 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.

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of retention of domestic dwelling house and garage

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2010

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aughris.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the end of a low hillock, at a broad meandering bend of the Owenmore River. A raised circular area (int. diam. 21.8m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) along the S and SE arcs and by an eroded scarp (H 1.5m) elsewhere. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.8m) at S. The N portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. However, the interior retains a steep slope down to N. 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

• SL039-012001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. An oval area (int. diam. 34.5m N-S; 26.6m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.45m). The bank is incorporated into a field boundary system along the N arc and is skirted by a lane along the W arc. The concave interior slopes down to E and is clear of overgrowth. The remains of a possible structure in the W half of interior consists of two parallel rubble stone walls (on a N-S axis), c. 6m apart. The W wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.4m) measures 13.1m in length and the E wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.75m) is 11.9m in length. 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

• SL039-012002 Building
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. The remains of a possible structure are evident in the W half of the interior of Aughris rath (SL039-012001-). It consists of two parallel rubble stone walls (on a N-S axis), c. 6m apart. The W wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.4m) measures 13.1m in length and the E wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.75m) is 11.9m in length. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL039-155 Barrow - embanked barrow
  Description

  On the N end of a gravel ridge with restricted views to N and E and more extensive views to S and W. Described in 1995 (pers. comm. M. Keane and J. Farrelly) as a barrow (original overall diam. 11m WNW-ESE), the S half of which is destroyed by quarrying and the E edge of which is truncated by a field boundary. The remains consist of an arc of bank (Wth 4.2m; ext. H 0.55m) W-E. The section of the interior visible in the quarry face showed that the barrow was composed of gravel and large stones covered by a layer of topsoil. A small V-shaped pit (diam. 0.25m; D 0.3m), filled with dark brown clay, was also visible in the exposed section. (Farrelly and Keane 2002, 98) 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 Aughris.

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 Aughris, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1040 (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 Aughris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Aughris · Eachros

Area

567,094 m² (56.71 ha, 140.13 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Cloonoghill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 119 households in the Cloonoghill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardconnell, Ballybrennan, Ballynaglogh, Carrigeenmore, Deechomade, Lissananny More, Spurtown Lower

Placenames

Aughris 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.