Ballincastle

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincastle, from 376 m² to 119,982 m² (12 ha, 29.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  Development consisting of: 1. Construction of a single storey extension to our family home. 2. Decommissioning of the existing effluent treatment system, and installation of a mechanical aeration treatment unit, distribution area incorporating two puraflo modules and three rows of willows, plus ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22142

• 15 Jun 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of an extension to south east elevation of existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21230

• 20 Jan 2017Refused

  development consisting of the retention of a single storey domestic garage (130.5m2 area) as constructed on site which differs in size and location from that permitted under planning permission reference number PL 12/62 and associated works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 1713

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 Ballincastle.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballincastle.

Architectural heritage

• Denver Lodge, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic rendered house, built c. 1890. L-plan, return to south-east with gabled dormer, centrally-located gabled single-storey porch to north (front) elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted roughcast splay-capped chimneystacks, ornate pierced painted timber bargeboards to gables, half-round cast-iron gutters on overhanging eaves. Unpainted roughcast walling, chamfered plinth, painted render quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted moulded eared architraves to front block, painted smooth-rendered reveals to return, painted stone sills with corbels below to front block, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Round-headed window opening to porch, painted moulded eared architraves with keystone, painted stone sill on corbels, painted timber fixed-light casement window. Square-headed door opening to east side of porch, painted timber four-panel door. Set in grounds, gravelled forecourt, one-and-a-half-storey outbuildings to south and west, gravel driveway from road to north, surrounding fields and trees, wrought-iron double gates on concrete insitu pillars, stone stile adjacent to gates.

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 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 Ballincastle.

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.

• Ballincastle, Cliffoney6 sales

Name

Ballincastle · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

624,530 m² (62.45 ha, 154.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Cliffony South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cliffony South electoral division: 577 people in 216 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphull, Ballynabrock, Cartronplank, Drumfad, Edenreagh, Newtowncliffony

Placenames

Ballincastle 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.