Ballyconnell
Ballyconnell is a townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Choinéil.
- Area
- 407.4 ha
- 1,007 acres
- Land parcels
- 304
- registered freehold, median 8,655 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
304 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconnell, from 15 m² to 113,192 m² (11.32 ha, 27.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyconnell 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
25 Jul 2026N/a
Planning permission to construct an extension onto existing slatted house, including all ancillary site works and services.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660306
1 Jul 2026N/a
Planning permission to construct an extension onto existing slatted house, including all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660263
19 Dec 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, construction of domestic garage and all associates site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560545
3 Dec 2025Conditional
1. To construct a single storey domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to the EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560502
18 Nov 2025N/a
1. To construct a single storey domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to the EPA code of practice and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560483
16 Sept 2025N/a
Upgrade of existing septic tank to new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area to existing cottage
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560382
16 Sept 2025Conditional
1. Retention and completion of re-construction of existing cottage, 2. Retention and completion of new extensions to east and west elevations 3. Planning permission for upgrade of existing septic tank to new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area to existing cottage
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560383
5 Mar 2024N/a
construction of new dwelling house and outbuildings on ruins of old cottage and outbuildings and installation of new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460065
19 Feb 2024Conditional
The renovation of the existing cottage with the addition of a single story rear/side extension and replacement of the existing entrance porch, provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and other ancillary works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460045
15 Aug 2023Refused
retention of the partial reconstruction and completion of former vacant derelict dwelling house incorporating section of original dwelling house stone walls and completion of the reconstruction of the dwelling house and the installation of a waste water treatment system and percolation area
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360211
12 Jan 2022Conditional
Development consisting of construction of dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 229
14 Dec 2021Conditional
Development consisting of the demolition of an existing single storey extension, renovation of the existing cottage to include a new extension consisting of two single storey elements, provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and other ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies this application.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21491
14 Apr 2021Conditional
Demolition of existing single storey extension to the rear of my dwelling plus alterations, extension and renovation of existing dwelling plus construction of new domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21130
15 Apr 2019Conditional
Development consisting of proposed construction of a new dwelling, onsite waste water treatment system, alteration to existing vehicular access to public road and all associated landscaping & site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19147
19 Jun 2018Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, agricultural site entrance and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1333
3 Apr 2018Conditional
Development consisting of (1) Demolition of existing shed (2) Construction of 'Music Room' (3) 'Retention of Existing domestic shed.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18101
12 Mar 2018N/a
for development consisting of 1. Demolition of existing shed. 2. Construction of 'Music Room' 3. Retention of existing domestic shed
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1867
15 Sept 2017Conditional
Development consisting of (1) Retention of demolition of existing cottage and attached outbuildings and (2) Retention and completion as built of reconstructed cottage current under construction.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17356
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) SAC 000627
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cummeen Strand/Drumcliff Bay (Sligo Bay) 000627
Recorded monuments
- SL004-003 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.
- SL004-029 Seaweed stand
Description
One of 17 small circular enclosures marked on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1909). These were used as stands for stacking seaweed and date from the post-1700 AD period. (Timoney 2002b, 58-9.) Timoney, M.A. 2002b Aughris, Portavaud, Lackan and Kilcummin. In M.A. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo: first essays for Sligo Field Club, 41-64. Sligo Field Club. Carrick-on-Shannon Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- SL004-030 Seaweed stand
Description
One of 17 small circular enclosures marked on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1909). These were used as stands for stacking seaweed and date from the post-1700 AD period. (Timoney 2002b, 58-9.) Timoney, M.A. 2002b Aughris, Portavaud, Lackan and Kilcummin. In M.A. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo: first essays for Sligo Field Club, 41-64. Sligo Field Club. Carrick-on-Shannon Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- SL004-031 Midden
Description
Located on top of a shoreline cliff, which drops to an expanse of limestone rocks extending into the sea, at the W end of Ballyconnell beach. The midden is exposed in section beneath a layer of sod and dark brown top soil, at a depth of c. 0.4-0.5m below the grass-covered top of the cliff. It is visible as a dense concentration (L 8-10m NW−SE; D 0.2-0.4m) of limpet shell. There appear to be small quantities of periwinkles in dark, pebble-rich soil directly above the limpets. The shell layer overlies a layer (D c. 0.2-0.3m) of orange-brown, relatively stone free soil, which in turn overlies natural orange-brown stony boulder clay (D 0.8-1m). Beneath the latter, are further layers of gravel and stone dropping to the base of the cliff. According to local information, the pasture field on top of the cliff was the location for ‘bothies’, temporary huts or shelters erected during the summer season for minding cattle, which were grazing along the shoreline. One possibility is that the midden is related to that activity. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 June 2017
- SL007-002 Ritual site - holy well
Description
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- SL007-003001 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- SL007-003002 Souterrain
Description
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- SL007-004 Religious house - unclassified
Description
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- SL007-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- SL007-006 Ringfort - rath
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyconnell.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyconnell, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyconnell.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballyconnell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyconnell · Baile Uí Choinéil
- Area
- 4,073,588 m² (407.36 ha, 1,006.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Lissadill West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 639 people lived in 246 households in the Lissadill West electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballineden, Ballintemple, Carrigeens, Cloonagh
- Placenames
- Ballyconnell 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.