Ballymurray

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurray, from 991 m² to 254,140 m² (25.41 ha, 62.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballymurray 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.

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  to (a) retain existing dwelling house as constructed on site, (b) retain the demolition for previous existing dwelling house, (c) retain and upgrade existing vehicular entrance (d) upgrade the wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460159

• 18 May 2023N/a

  development consisting of the following (a) retain existing dwelling house as constructed on site, (b) retain the demolition for previous existing dwelling house, (c) upgrade existing vehicular entrance (d) upgrade the wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2360121

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 Ballymurray.

Recorded monuments

• SL025-146 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a low NE-SW ridge. A raised circular area (42.2m NE-SW) defined by two earthen banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) is substantial and evident all round with traces of internal stone kerbing noted in places. There is a gap (Wth 1.4m) in the bank at E. The fosse (Wth 4m) is evident SE-NW. The outer bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.3m) is incorporated into a townland boundary SE-NW and levelled elsewhere, though a slight rise was noted on the line of bank at N and SE. Immediately outside the outer bank is a sloping terrace (Wth 2m; H 0.5m). The interior is mainly grass-covered with a few blackthorn bushes in the NW quadrant. A portion (18.5m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) of the S half of the interior, abutting the inner bank SE-SW, is divided off by a low sod covered bank. Within the SW quadrant of this area is a low roughly oval sod-covered rise (2.7m NE-SW; 5.8m NW-SE; H 0.5m). A slightly raised semicircular area (4.5m N-S; 3.5m E-W) built against the internal face of the bank at NNE, is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.5m). The outer bank of the rath is overgrown with blackthorn bushes which are also encroaching on the fosse and inner bank at W and NW. There is a road immediately to E. 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

• SL026-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope. A circular area (int. diam. 20m) enclosed by an earthen bank. The bank is evident all round but is most substantial along the W half (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.6m). There is an entrance (Wth 3.5m) at E with a ramp from the exterior. Some bushes grow on the bank. 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

• SL026-113 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Prominently sited on the summit of a steep-sided hill with excellent views. An oval platform (30.7m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.8m) has a high broadly sloping external face and a low stony internal lip. Some of the stone protruding from the inner edge of the bank may be remains of kerbing or facing. The fosse (Wth 3-4m) and outer bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) are evident WNW-SW, but there is considerable evidence for recent disturbance and modification. Both appear to have been truncated WSW-WNW by the construction of a water reservoir immediately adjacent to the rath. Areas of quarrying occur within the fosse at NE and SE and more extensively SW-W. The outer bank coincides with the natural break of slope N-S. It is levelled WNW-NE to a broad low flat-topped rise (Wth 8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) defined on its outer edge by a hawthorn hedgerow. It appears as a compact bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.5-1.2m) ENE-SW, that has been modified to serve as a field boundary. The inner face of the outer bank S-W is greatly disturbed by quarrying. A possible entrance occurs at ESE where there is a slumped gap (Wth 1.4m) in the inner bank and a possible causeway across the fosse as well as a narrow break (Wth 1m), eroded by cattle, in the outer bank. A thicket of blackthorn bushes covers the interior and the outer bank is ringed with hawthorn. 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

• SL026-114 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  In a shallow basin, in rolling rush-grown pasture. Only part of the rear chamber (L 2.8m) of a SSE-facing court tomb gallery now remains. It is represented by the backstone, now split in two along its length, two sidestones adjoining the W end of the last, and 1.5m forward of these a segmenting jamb. A deep ditch extends E-W 1m forward of the jamb. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 58-9, no. 93) 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballymurray, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_989 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballymurray with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballymurray · Baile Uí Mhuirígh

Area

944,293 m² (94.43 ha, 233.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kilvarnet, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Temple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

394 people lived in 132 households in the Temple electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowntawy, Falnasoogaun or Ropefield, Fetherneen, Kilvarnet North, Rathnarrow (Brett), Rathnarrow (O'Hara), Rockfinlough

Placenames

Ballymurray 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.