# Bearvaish, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Drumrat, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Beirbhéis.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,044,657 m² (104.47 ha, 258.14 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,252 m² (1.13 ha, 2.78 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumrat, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/drumrat.md
- Barony: Corran
- Electoral division: Drumrat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 540 people lived in 203 households in the Drumrat electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44522
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200171
- Centre: latitude 54.052497, longitude -8.511851 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bearvaish, from 1,147 m² to 129,463 m² (12.95 ha, 31.99 acres); 37 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 747484: 129,463 m² (12.95 ha, 31.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/747484.md
- Parcel 779549: 108,174 m² (10.82 ha, 26.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779549.md
- Parcel 779555: 103,674 m² (10.37 ha, 25.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779555.md
- Parcel 779553: 99,049 m² (9.9 ha, 24.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779553.md
- Parcel 776200: 90,678 m² (9.07 ha, 22.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/776200.md
- Parcel 740476: 72,430 m² (7.24 ha, 17.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740476.md
- Parcel 730340: 63,593 m² (6.36 ha, 15.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730340.md
- Parcel 779554: 62,118 m² (6.21 ha, 15.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779554.md
- Parcel 779557: 49,496 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779557.md
- Parcel 779556: 48,854 m² (4.89 ha, 12.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779556.md
- Parcel 762730: 34,799 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762730.md
- Parcel 737849: 28,162 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737849.md
- Parcel 779552: 20,309 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779552.md
- Parcel 3697237: 16,779 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3697237.md
- Parcel 779551: 16,074 m² (1.61 ha, 3.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779551.md
- Parcel 2389232: 6,430 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389232.md
- Parcel 729067: 6,421 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/729067.md
- Parcel 775916: 5,458 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775916.md
- Parcel 747483: 5,408 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/747483.md
- Parcel 750898: 5,266 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/750898.md
- Parcel 2631345: 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2631345.md
- Parcel 759791: 3,549 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/759791.md
- Parcel 749491: 3,496 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/749491.md
- Parcel 5033012: 3,080 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5033012.md
- Parcel 3091024: 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3091024.md
- Parcel 730848: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730848.md
- Parcel 5427384: 1,562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5427384.md
- Parcel 778134: 1,445 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/778134.md
- Parcel 734394: 1,182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/734394.md
- Parcel 779550: 1,147 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/779550.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Bearvaish in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 30 Sept 2026, Sligo County Council 2660406: N/a. Permission. Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and install an on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660406/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bearvaish.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL039-016: Barrow - bowl-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL039-016----. In pasture, on a W-facing slope below the crest of a flat-topped ridge; immediately W of a road and overlooking the Owenmore River to W. An oval flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 22m; H 3m) with sloping sides. The mound has been eroded by cattle giving it a terraced appearance. It is overgrown mainly with small trees. 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). Attached images: SL030-016----_01.JPG Viewed from E SL030-016----_02.JPG Viewed from NE Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL039-058001: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL039-058001-. In pasture, on top of an elongated flat-topped knoll with high steep rocky sides, giving excellent views in all directions. A subrectangular area (57m NE-SW; 25.7m NW-SE) defined on the SE side by a steep linear scarp (H 1m) with exposed limestone bedrock, on top of a less steep slope (H c. 6-7m). The SW side (H c. 2.5m), also broken by rock outcrops, is defined by a steep but lower scarp with an external fosse (Wth 7m; ext. D 1m). Skirting the fosse is a stony bank (Wth 1.2m), possibly a field boundary, that extends to NNE. The NW side is defined by a scarp (H c. 7-8m) which appears even higher and steeper than the SE side and in plan projects outward slightly in a shallow convex curve. The NE side comprises a straight scarp (H 2-2.5m) incorporating, slightly SE of centre, an entrance in the form of a slumped ramp-like gap (Wth 2m). A narrow stony bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.65m) extends across the SW end of the interior c. 2m in from the edge of the scarp. A large, roughly D-shaped raised area (c. 28m NW-SE; c.18m NE-SW) abuts the NW side of the interior and is defined at NW by the edge of the enclosure and elsewhere by a curving scarp (H c. 1m). Immediately to SW is a possible hut site (SL039-058002-). The floodplain of the Owenmore River is to the 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
- SL039-058002: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL039-058002-. On top of a narrow ridge and immediately SW of the fosse of a moated site (SL039-058001-) and separated from it by a stony bank. An oval area (7m N-S; 4m E-W) enclosed by a low bank (Wth 3-3.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) with a gap (Wth 3m) at N. At NE the enclosing bank appears to merge with traces of a stony bank (Wth 1.2m), possibly the remains of a field boundary, which extends to the NNE. 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
- SL039-061: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL039-061----. In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A raised roughly D-shaped area (int. dims. 23m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.65m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.45m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth at top 3.55m; D 0.3m). The bank is straightened on W side where it is incorporated into a field boundary system. The interior is slightly concave and slopes gently down to E. There is an entrance (Wth 2.2m) at E close to which is an oval wet area (8.5m by 11.5m). The bank is heavily overgrown with bushes. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Big Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 32403901, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL&regno=32403901. Five-span road-over-river stone bridge, built c. 1800. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling to spandrels, roughly coursed rubble limestone parapet walls, roughly-dressed parapet copings partly replaced in insitu concrete c. 1970, splayed rubble stone buttressing to east and west sides of south elevation. Round-headed arches, irregular tooled limestone voussoirs, lower level of piers and cutwaters encased in insitu concrete c. 1970, triangular dressed stone cutwaters evident above concrete, pyramidal dressed stone cappings to cut-waters. Twin bitmac carriageway deck, narrow grass verges. Spans east-west over Owenmore River.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Bearvaish, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Bearvaish.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/bearvaish.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/bearvaish.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/bearvaish.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Bearvaish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardree: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardree.md
- Ballynacarriga: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballynacarriga.md
- Ballynakillew: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballynakillew.md
- Carrickrathmullin: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrickrathmullin.md
- Carrigeen: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrigeen.md
- Cloonagun: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cloonagun.md
- Coagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/coagh.md
- Knockanaher: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockanaher.md
- Knockatelly: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockatelly.md
- Knockgrania: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockgrania-200876.md
- Lissananny Beg: https://everytownland.com/sligo/lissananny-beg.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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