Ballynashee
Ballynashee is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmactranny, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Baile na Sí.
- Area
- 464.4 ha
- 1,148 acres
- Land parcels
- 102
- registered freehold, median 21,316 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynashee, from 13 m² to 982,652 m² (98.27 ha, 242.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Apr 2026N/a
planning permission for (1) proposed new Astro Pitch development including associated Floodlighting and Fencing (2) proposed new Spectator Stand to the existing Pitch (3) proposed new Floodlighting to the existing Pitch (4) new Walking track and associated lighting (5) new pump track (6) modifications to the existing entrance and front boundary treatment (7) new car Parking area including public lighting and all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660139
7 Mar 2018Refused
for development consisting of laying an underground 38kV electricity cable and associated ducting and ancillary development primarily within the public road to facilitate the connection of the permitted Derrysallagh Wind Farm with the townlands of Derrysallagh and Glen, Co. Sligo (Planning Ref: PL 12/133) to the National electricity grid via the existing Garvagh 110kV substation in the townland of Seltan, County Leitrim. Part of the development is in place and subject to a pending application for Substitute Consent to An Bord Pleanala (Ref: ABP - 300811-18). The proposed development within the jurisdiction of Sligo County Council for which Permission is sought include the following: Installation of approx 0.69km of underground cable ducting, 2 no. joint bays and ancillary development laid primarily within the public road corridor with a section of ducting to be installed within a steel box structure to be fixed to Boleymaguire Bridge within the townlands of Carrowcashel, Co. Sligo and Boleymaguire, Co. Leitrim. Within the townlands of Tullynure and Carrowcashel, permission is sought for the carrying out of remedial works to approx 1.28 km of the installed underground cable ducting which is subject to a pending application for Substitute Consent to An Bord Pleanala (Ref: ABP - 300811-18). Remedial works include the relaying of backfill material. Permission is also sought for the installation of the electricity cable following completion of the civil works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 1864
20 Feb 2018N/a
Development consisting of laying an underground 38kV Electricity cable and associated ducting and ancillary development primarily within the public road to facilitate the connection of the permitted Derrysallagh Wind Farm within the townlands of Derrysallagh and Glen, Co Sligo (Sligo County Council Planning Reference PL12/133) to the National electricity grid via the existing Garvagh 110 kV substation in the townland of Seltan, County Leitrim. Part of this development is in place and subject to a pending application for Substitute Consent to An Bord Pleanala (Ref: ABP-300811- 18). The proposed development within the jurisdiction of County Sligo for which Permission is sought includes the following: Installation of approximately 0.69 km of underground cable ducting, 2 No. joint bays and ancillary development laid primarily within the public road corridor with a section of ducting to be installed within a steel box structure to be fixed to Boleymaguire Bridge within the townlands of Carrowcashel, Co Sligo and Boleymaguire, Co Leitrim. Within the townlands of Tullynure and Carrowcashel, permission is sought for the carrying out of remedial works to approximately 1.28km of the installed underground cable ducting which is subject to a pending application for Substitute Consent to An Bord Pleanala (Ref: ABP-300811-18). Remedial works include the relaying of backfill material. Permission is also sought for the installation of the electricity cable following completion of the civil works. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) / Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Permission · Sligo County Council, 1840
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Carrane Hill Bog NHA 002415
Recorded monuments
- SL035-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, to W of a low scarp. The rath is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an oval raised area. The remains consist of an oval sunken area (20.9m x 19.1m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.5m). The interior is overgrown with vegetation. The rath is adjacent to a football pitch. 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
- SL035-027 Sweathouse
Description
Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. In wet upland pasture, on an E-facing slope overlooking the Camoge River 20m to S. It is not marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A D-shaped depression (1.5m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE; D 0.8m), covered with overgrowth, with an entrance (Wth 0.4m; L 0.75m) on the straight SE side. The sides of the depression are lined with rough courses of unmortared limestone rubble and the base is muddy and covered with limestone rubble. According to local information, the sweathouse originally had a domed stone roof. This is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 05 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynashee.
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 Ballynashee, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynashee.
- 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 Ballynashee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynashee · Baile na Sí
- Area
- 4,644,317 m² (464.43 ha, 1,147.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmactranny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Ballynashee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 386 people lived in 148 households in the Ballynashee electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughnacloy, Ballyculleen, Foyoges, Glackaunadarragh (Co. Leitrim), Glen, Knockroe, Straduff
- Placenames
- Ballynashee 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.