Ballaghboy

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghboy, from 696 m² to 375,913 m² (37.59 ha, 92.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  development consisting of: (1) retention of dwelling house as constructed with revised design from that previously granted under PL 04/331 on amended application site boundaries (2) decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 17209

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 Ballaghboy.

Recorded monuments

• SL040-238001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In wet pasture, to W of a stream and c. 20m W of a burnt mound (SL040-23802-). This fulacht fia was discovered during the construction of the Curlew bypass and excavated in 1995 (Channing 1998a, 154). It consisted of a spread (c. 12m E-W; c.16m N-S) of burnt stones in a reddish-brown silty clay matrix with a high peat content and occasional flecks of charcoal. The spread was partially truncated by machinery prior to excavation. Excavation revealed a trough (1.8m x 0.95m; D 0.3m), lined with wood, cut into the subsoil. The space between the edges of the trough and the wood lining was filled with a grey daub-like substance while the trough itself was filled with burnt stones. 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

• SL040-238002 Burnt mound
  Description

  In wet pasture, on the W bank of a stream and c. 20m E of a fulacht fia (SL040-238001-). This monument was discovered during the construction of the Curlew bypass and excavated in 1995 (Channing 1998a, 154). A spread (10m x 6m) of burnt stone in a reddish-brown silty clay matrix with a high peat content and occasional flecks of charcoal. Excavation revealed a pit and two post-holes in the N half of the spread. The unlined pit (1.4m E-W; 0.7m N-S; D 0.28m) which was roughly oval in plan was cut into the subsoil, filled with burnt material and did not retain water. The post-holes were found c. 1.2m to E of the pit and both were circular in plan (diam. c. 0.1m; D c. 0.11m). The Red Earl's road (SL033-147---), which is of medieval date, follows the townland boundary immediately to E of the stream. (Channing 1996, 1-9) 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 Ballaghboy.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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 Ballaghboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballaghboy · An Bealach Buí

Area

2,898,036 m² (289.8 ha, 716.12 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Aghanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghanagh electoral division: 391 people in 143 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnadober, Cartron, Corradoo East, Garrow (Co. Roscommon), Limnagh

Placenames

Ballaghboy 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.