Ballyfree

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfree, from 86 m² to 158,339 m² (15.83 ha, 39.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 4 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.

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  1. Revised site boundaries from that granted under PL23/60358. 2. Revised percolation area location from that granted underPL23/60358. It is important to note that there are no changes to the house design, its location, or the entrance location from what was approved under PL23/60358

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460320

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  he development will consist of: 1. The demolition of an existing derelict house. 2. The construction of a new split level house. 3. The construction of a new sewage treatment plant with raised soil polishing filter. 4. And all ancillary site works at this site, Ballyfree, Sligo, Co Sligo.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360358

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18470

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 Ballyfree.

Recorded monuments

• SL014-222 Barrow - 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.

• SL014-223 Barrow - 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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1101 (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 Ballyfree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballyfree · Buaile Fraoigh

Area

486,148 m² (48.61 ha, 120.13 acres)

Civil parish

St. John's, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Kilmacowen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmacowen electoral division: 2,347 people in 830 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caltragh, Carrowkeel, Carrowroe, Derrydarragh or Oakfield, Knocknashammer or Cloverhill, Magheraboy, Tonafortes

Placenames

Ballyfree 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.