Ballygrania

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygrania, from 59 m² to 176,042 m² (17.6 ha, 43.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballygrania 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.

• 14 Nov 2024Refused

  PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS MAX HEIGHT OF HOUSE 5.3M

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460406

• 24 Oct 2024N/a

  PLANNING PERMISSION SOUGHT FOR PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460382

• 15 Aug 2023Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360213

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new detached dwelling house with onsite wastewater treatment system, detached domestic garage, connection to public services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22261

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

  development consisting of the following: to retain renovations and extensions to dwelling house as constructed and for permission to renovate and construct first floor extensions to detached dwelling house

  Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 22101

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: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL026-030 Cist
  Description

  On a ledge above a scarp, adjacent to the E bank of the Unshin River. There are no visible remains of this short cist; a septic tank is now built on the site. It was discovered in 1970 during construction work (NMI). It consisted of a rectangular cist grave (L 0.71m; min. Wth 0.25m; max. Wth 0.33m; D 0.43m) containing the cremated bones of one human adult and the teeth of a child. Each of the four sides of the cist was formed by a thin limestone slab and the bottom by two large flat stones. The cist was covered by a single capstone and the space between the capstone and the sides was packed with small stones. Small stones also covered the capstone. The cremated remains were heaped in the centre of the floor with a thin spread to all sides. (Raftery 1973, 186; Waddell 1990, 131) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-031 Castle - motte
  Description

  In pasture, within the demesne of Markree Castle (SL026-038----). An oval steep-sided conical earthen mound (H 5.5m), with an oval summit (30.5m N-S; 21.5m E-W) which slopes down gently from the rim towards the centre. Attached to the N side of the mound, but separated from it by a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m), is a rectangular area (50m E-W; 15m N-S), possibly a bailey (SL026-031001-) which is raised c. 2.5m above the external ground level. This area is covered by dense scrub overgrowth, but the mound is under grass. The castle was probably built to command a ford, in the vicinity of Ballygrania Bridge c. 400m to the W, across the Arrow or Unshin River. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-031001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  In pasture, within the demesne of Markree Castle (SL026-038----). The possible motte (SL026-031----) consists of an oval steep-sided conical earthen mound (H 5.5m), with an oval summit (30.5m N-S; 21.5m E-W) which slopes down gently from the rim towards the centre. Attached to the N side of the mound, but separated from it by a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m), is the possible bailey, a rectangular area (50m E-W; 15m N-S) which is raised c. 2.5m above external ground level. This area is covered by dense scrub overgrowth, but the mound is under grass. The castle was probably built to command a ford, in the vicinity of Ballygrania Bridge c. 400m to the W, across the Arrow or Unshin River. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL026-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, straddling a low ridge with a steep W-facing slope at the base of which is an expanse of flat damp pasture. A substantially raised circular platform (28.6m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 2.45m at E, 3.55m at W), topped by a low slumped stony bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.5m) NW-W. The base of the platform is surrounded by a fosse (Wth 6m) NNW-SSW outside of which is a berm (Wth 10-11m). The berm continues around the base of the platform SSW-NNW, where the fosse is absent. A low bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) tops the inner edge of the berm while a similar bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.4m) is evident SE-S on its outer edge. At its outer edge the berm has a pronounced scarp (H 1.7m at E; 3.5m at W) that drops to an external fosse (Wth 3.5m) NNW-SSW. On the W half of the rath the enclosing elements are built up or adapted to compensate for the steep natural slope. Both fosses are clearly defined NW-SSW where they cut through elevated ground but peter out elsewhere. The interior has an even surface with much stone protruding randomly from the sod. The W and SW portions of the interior are raised to compensate for the natural hillslope. The entrance is at E where there is a broad poorly defined gap (Wth 6m) in the bank and a ramped slope to corresponding causeways (Wth 3m) across the fosses. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL026-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on the top of a hillock. A circular raised area (int. diam. 22m) defined by traces of an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Markree Castle, gate lodge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered gate lodge, built c. 1880. Rectangular plan, single-storey full-width lean-to to rear (north), single-storey flat-roofed extension to north-east c. 1990, gable-fronted entrance porch c. 2004 to south. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipes, painted timber eaves and bargeboards to porch. Painted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling to porch. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, limestone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows, fixed multi-pane casement windows to east and west elevations. Square-headed door opening in entrance porch, painted half-glazed timber door with two bottom panels. Entrance gateway to north-east with rubble limestone piers, dressed limestone caps, rubble stone quadrant walls, wrought-iron flat-bar gates. Rear of house faces road, front looks across fields to Markree Castle.

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 10 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_1104 (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 Ballygrania with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballygrania · Béal Átha Gráinne

Area

914,117 m² (91.41 ha, 225.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilross, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Collooney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Collooney electoral division: 3,188 people in 1,209 households; 58% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydawley, Clooneenroe, Cloonmacduff, Lavinscartron, Markree Demesne, Rathrippin, Tully More

Placenames

Ballygrania 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.