Ballinphull
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Baile an Phoill
- Area
- 152.5 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 86
- registered freehold, median 5,807 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinphull, from 89 m² to 125,173 m² (12.52 ha, 30.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinphull 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Dec 2019Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a detached dwelling house and install a waste water treatment system with percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19494
10 Apr 2019Conditional
Development consisting of retention of extension constructed to the side of dwelling house with associated works.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 19134
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinphull.
Recorded monuments
- SL005-096 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a slight NW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular area (diam. c.30m). It is not marked on the 1912 edition. This potential monument has been levelled and there are no upstanding remains visible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-099 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
Situated on a broad gently sloping hill on slight S-facing slope in pasture. Circular flat-topped mound (dims. diam. top 3m; diam. base 18m) of earth and rubble stone defined by a steep scarped edge (ext. H 4.35m) with an external fosse (Wth 8m; D 0.1m). The fosse is visible as enclosing the central mound SW-N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL005-130 Cairn - unclassified
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.
- SL008-002 Church
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
- Ballinfull Creamery, creamery, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single- and two-storey rendered and corrugated-iron former creamery buildings, built c. 1900, now used as farm supplies storage. Single-storey main building on east-west axis with two single-storey flat-roofed projections to south, lean-to to north-west, hipped roof wing to north; pitched and hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, copper ventilators on main ridge, half-round galvanised steel gutters; painted smooth-rendered walling to main block, roughcast to north wing; square-headed window openings, painted masonry sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows; square-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted timber vehicular double doors to east gable of main block and north gable of north wing. Two-storey administration building to east with two-storey extension to north; pitched slate roof to main building, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystack, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves (corbel) course; segmental corrugated-iron roof to extension, half-round galvanised steel gutters; painted roughcast walling to main building and ground floor of extension; corrugated-iron walling to first floor of extension; square-headed window openings, painted masonry sills, slightly-projecting smooth-rendered reveals, painted timber casement windows; square-headed door openings, painted vertically-sheeted doors. Single-storey shed to north of main building; pitched corrugated-iron roof; painted smooth-rendered walling; square-headed door opening, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Two contiguous two-storey barns to north-west of main building; semi-circular corrugated-iron roofs, corrugated-iron east and west walls, painted roughcast north and south gable-ends; square-headed door openings in south gable-ends, galvanised sheet steel double doors, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors at first floor. Single-storey shed to extreme west of complex; pitched corrugated-iron roof; corrugated-iron walling. Concrete yards between buildings, road to immediate south, hillside to north.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1880. Projecting single-storey gabled entrance porch to centre of south (front) elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, concrete verge cappings, red brick chimneystacks with stepped capping, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipes. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Round-headed window opening to porch gable-end. Square-headed entrance door opening, painted timber door with four stop-chamfered raised-and-fielded panels. Set on rise, large front garden to south, accessed by short drive from road to south.
- Lissadell Church (Drumcliff), church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached limestone Church of Ireland church, built c. 1860. Five-bay nave, two-bay gable-fronted chancel to east, gable-fronted entrance porch projecting from south elevation, three-stage square bell-tower and spire to south-west, four-bay north aisle with lean-to roof, single-bay lean-to vestry to east side of north elevation. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, ashlar verge copings with corbelled springers, cast-iron gutters on stone eaves corbels, cast-iron downpipes. Four-sided tooled ashlar spire with ball finial set on plain concave cornice carried on plain stone corbels rising to form blind lucarnes surmounted by fleur-de-lys finials on each elevation. Squared-and-snecked rock-faced ashlar walling, plain ashlar chamfered plinth, moulded ashlar strings, tooled ashlar quoins, splay-capped diagonal buttresses, cast-iron clock faces on south and east faces of tower. Triple lancet window openings to nave, paired lancets to chancel sides, group of three lancets separated by slender mullions and flanked by single lancets to east gable-end, three lancets to west gable-end, paired lancets to north aisle, flush splayed sills, splayed ashlar surrounds, cast-iron diamond-pane windows to nave, aisle and entrance porch, stained glass leaded-lights to chancel and west window. Pointed-arch door opening to porch, hood moulding, ashlar dressings, stone steps, painted vertically-sheeted timber double doors with wrought-iron strap hinges. Shoulder-arched door opening to vestry, corbelled lintel, hood moulding, ashlar dressings, stone steps, painted vertically-sheeted timber door with wrought-iron strap hinges. Set back from road in own grounds, Gore-Booth family burial plot to east, cut stone grave markers, wrought-iron gates and railings, rubble stone boundary walls, rock-faced ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps to east and south-east, decorative wrought- and cast-iron gates to south-east.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Ballinphull.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinphull with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinphull · Baile an Phoill
- Area
- 1,525,058 m² (152.51 ha, 376.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Lissadill East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lissadill East electoral division: 862 people in 306 households; 78% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballinphull 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.