Ballure

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballure, from 56 m² to 85,983 m² (8.6 ha, 21.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Ballure 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.

• 24 May 2023Conditional

  Planning permission to alter an existing garage flat roof to a pitched roof with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360127

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  development consisting of a change of house design to dwelling house previously granted planning permission under reference number PL 18/479

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19354

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the proposed construction of a new dwelling house, on-site waste water treatment system, proposed new vehicular access and all associated landscaping and site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18479

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a dormer 2 storey domestic house, construct a garage, construct a waste water treatment system to the current EPA code of practice, construct a new site entrance together with all associated ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18170

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Colgagh Lough 001658

Recorded monuments

• SL015-074 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a slight NE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Views are excellent E-W and good in all other directions. Circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.2m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. A discontinuous series of revetting blocks (av. dims. L 1m; T 0.3m; H 0.3m) are located at the external base of the bank WNW-SE. A modern drystone field wall (T 0.4m; H0.8m) has been constructed on the internal upper break of slope of the bank on all sides. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL015-119 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulationg landscape. A circular, grass-covered cairn (diam. 8.5m; H 0.5-1m) has an old, grass-covered quarry (diam. 5m; D 0.8-1m) dug into its centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1161 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballure · An Baile Úr

Area

686,726 m² (68.67 ha, 169.69 acres)

Civil parish

Calry, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Calry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Calry electoral division: 1,792 people in 654 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogher More, Colgagh, Kiltycahill

Placenames

Ballure 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.