Ballineden

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballineden, from 45 m² to 121,603 m² (12.16 ha, 30.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Ballineden 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, construction of domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560546

• 5 Sept 2017Refused

  for planning permission for a proposed dwelling, onsite Waste Water Treatment System, alteration to existing vehicular access to public road and all associated landscaping and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17339

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: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) SAC 000627
• Special Protection Area: Ballintemple and Ballygilgan SPA 004234
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) 000627

Recorded monuments

• SL007-001001 Promontory fort - coastal
  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.

• SL007-001002 Building
  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.

• SL007-001003 Enclosure
  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.

• SL007-048 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Located on the narrow summit of a steep-sided hill which rises on the S side of a promontory jutting into the Atlantic. The hill provides extensive views, including Ben Bulbin and the Dartry Mountains at ENE-E, and Knocknarae and the Ox Mountains at SE–S. To W and NW there are views out to sea. Sod-covered, circular mound (overall diam. 7-8m) with a flat top (diam. 2-2.5m) and broadly sloping side (H c. 1-1.2m). An E-W earth and stone field bank (Wth 1-1.2m; H 0.5m), topped with post and wire fencing, overlies the mound to S of centre. There is an upright, concrete trigonometrical station on a concrete base on the flat top of the mound, immediately to N of the field fence. A slight depression is evident at the base of the mound at SE and also at W. The mound barrow is not shown on the 1837 and 1913 OS 6-inch maps, but the location is marked on both maps as a trigonometrical station. There is a promontory fort (SL007-001001-) c. 400m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 February 2014

• SL007-057 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated to the W of the summit of a low hill (58m OD). The ground slopes down moderately to the W and rises moderately to the E. The surrounding area consists of enclosed pasture. The site has unobstructed views in all directions, except to the E which is partly blocked by the summit of Knocklane Hill. The largely intact Carrowmably Signal Tower (SL012-008003-) to the SW cannot be seen from the site because its site is obscured by intervening forestry. Streedagh Signal Tower SL005-0201----) to the N has been demolished and can no longer be seen from the site. This site at Knocklane Hill, Ballineden, is located c. 397m ESE of a coastal promontory fort (SL007-001001-) located at the tip of Cooladoon or Dooneragh Point. An early nineteenth-century two-storey square-plan signal tower, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble (int. dims. 4.35m NW-SE x 4.32m NE-SW; wall T 2.77m). Only the semi-basement level and the lower courses of the ground floor level of the signal tower now survive upstanding. The entire first floor and roof levels are collapsed\demolished, and the semi-basement level is now almost entirely infilled with soil and some rubble. The walls face NE, SE, SW and NW respectively. The SE wall features an external bulge that would have incorporated the chimney flue. Internally, the SE wall features the lower parts of a fireplace with flanking alcoves. Each of the alcoves features a square chute that passes through the body of the wall, close to the top of the surviving sections. A square section vertical drainage channel runs down the NW corner of the SE wall. This is believed to have brought rainwater from the roof to storage barrels in the semi-basement. The W corner of the tower features a square section vertical hole running vertically through the body of the wall. The purpose of this feature is unclear, but it may have also been used to bring water from the roof to the semi-basement. These features allowed for the signal tower to be orientated; the first floor door would have been located on the NW wall, the NE and SW walls would have featured pairs of windows on the ground floor and first floor levels, and the SE wall would have featured fireplaces on the ground floor and first floor levels. The remains of the tower are not surrounded by any accumulation of rubble indicating the rubble had been removed from site for use elsewhere. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on 08\11\21 Images: SL007-057----.01 SW exterior SL007-057----.02 SE exterior SL007-057----.03 SW interior SL007-057----.04 SE interior SL007-057----.05 NW exterior SL007-057----.06 NW interior SL007-057----.07 NW exterior SL007-057----.08 NW interior SL007-057----.09 NW exterior 2 SL007-057----.10 Detail of channel to W corner SL007-057----.11 Plan of site SL007-057----.12 NW (top) and NE (bottom) exterior drawings SL007-057----.13 SE (top) and SW (bottom) exterior drawings SL007-057----.14 NW (top) and NE (bottom) interior drawings SL007-057----.15 SE (top) and SW (bottom) interior drawings

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Ballineden.

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

Name

Ballineden · Baile an Éadain

Area

1,902,285 m² (190.23 ha, 470.06 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcliff, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Lissadill West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lissadill West electoral division: 639 people in 246 households; 80% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballyconnell, Ballymuldorry

Placenames

Ballineden 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.