Ballynabrock
Townland in the civil parish of Ahamlish, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Baile na mBroc
- Area
- 22.1 ha
- 55 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 17,225 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynabrock, from 706 m² to 53,232 m² (5.32 ha, 13.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Nov 2025Conditional
1. Demolition of existing fire damaged dwelling and construction of new replacement dwelling on same footprint and all associates site works. 2. Temporary retention of existing mobile home to rear of existing dwelling until new dwelling is complete
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560461
5 Oct 2022Conditional
development consisting of the construction of: 1. A new site entrance and closing off existing site entrance, 2. Demolition of existing low retaining wall and erection of 30m of ARMCO crash barrier in front of existing house, 3. All associated site works with items described
Permission · Sligo County Council, 22330
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: Bunduff Lough and Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore SAC 000625
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bunduff Lough And Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore 000625
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynabrock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynabrock.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynabrock.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynabrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynabrock · Baile na mBroc
- Area
- 221,212 m² (22.12 ha, 54.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ahamlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Cliffony South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cliffony South electoral division: 577 people in 216 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincastle, Ballinphull, Mullaghmore West, Newtowncliffony
- Placenames
- Ballynabrock 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.