Billa

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Billa, from 26 m² to 99,512 m² (9.95 ha, 24.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Billa 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.

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  development consisting of (1) construct building with horse stables and horse walker 935.58 sq.m (2) construct horse stable building 68.07 sq.m (3) construct storage shed 63.12 sq.m (4) construct manure pit 30.87 sq.m (5) retain existing unroofed horse gallop 417 meters in length and varying in width from 2 to 3 metres together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20227

• 14 Apr 2020Conditional

  development consisting of permission to alter elevations and plans of dwelling house currently under construction and previously permitted under Planning Reference PL 16/217. The alterations will include the following; a) Change of house design from storey and half dormer dwelling as permitted, to single storey with associated alterations to elevations and plans b) Single storey extension to rear of permitted ground floor footprint with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 20114

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  construction of a new dwellinghouse, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance, access road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17149

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

Recorded monuments

• SL026-010 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In damp low-lying pasture, c. 150m S of the Owenbeg River and incorporated into a field boundary. A D-shaped well (0.8m NW-SE; 0.8m NE-SW; D 0.4m) recessed into rising ground SE-NW and faced with stone (H 1.5m). A flat concrete slab, on which the visitor stands, defines the straight side. Outside the slab, a NW-SE mortared stone wall intersects with a curving wall to completely enclose the well. A series of steps built into this wall allows access to the well. Another holy well (SL026-015----) dedicated to St Fechin is c. 1.6km to E in Kilnamanagh townland. St Fechin's church and bed (SL026-011001-; SL026-011002-) are c. 200m to S and St Fechin's stone (SL026-012002-) is c. 350m to E. There are four other wells associated with St Fechin in the vicinity (SL026-015----; SL026-086----; SL026-151----; SL033-062----). 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

• SL026-011001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, bordered on the SE side by a road. A roughly trapezoidal-shaped area (18.5m E-W; 10.5m N-S at W end, 4.7m at E end) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) except on the SE side where it is fringed by the roadside field boundary. The entire platform is grass-covered and though stones protrude randomly from the scarp, no masonry or wall structure is apparent. Its surface is generally level but uneven. On the N side, the scarp drops 0.4m down to a low triangular terrace (5.5m N-S; c. 4-5m E-W), the N corner of which incorporates a sod-covered cairn of loose stones (diam. c. 3m; H 1.2m). Embedded in the terrace is a saint's stone known as 'St Fechin's Bed' (SL026-011002-). There is a holy well (SL026-010----) c. 200m to the N. 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

• SL026-011002 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Embedded in a low terrace abutting the W end of the N side of the platform known as St Fechin's church (SL026-011001-). A prostrate limestone slab (min. dims. 2m E-W; 1.2m N-S) is largely covered by sod. Roughly in the centre of its flat upper surface is an elongated solution fissure (c. 1m N-S; 0.25m E-W; D 0.35m). According to local tradition, the stone could cure backache. The patient had to lie flat with the spine aligned along the central fissure. St Fechin's holy well (SL026-010----) is c. 200m to N and another saint's stone, St Fechin's Stone (SL026-012002-), is c. 400m to NE. 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

• SL026-012001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, in the NW corner of a field, on a slight rise and c. 100m S of the Owenbeg River. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure. Now levelled; the remains consist of an oval area (c. 30m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW), clipped at NW and N by field boundaries and defined by a degraded scarp (H 1m) extending for c. 15m N-ESE in a gentle curve, coinciding with a low natural break in slope. Occasional stones protrude from the sod along the line of the scarp. The scarp peters out at SE but a barely discernible undulation continues SE-SW, truncated at SW by a linear field boundary on a N-S axis. Where the field boundary (L 12m; Wth 2.5-3m; H on E side 0.8m; H on W side 0.8m) overlies the presumed line of the enclosure W-NW, it has a broad slumped W face and is noticeably stonier and more substantial than elsewhere. St Fechin's Stone (SL026-012002-) lies c. 30m to S. 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

• SL026-012002 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Incorporated into a N-S field fence in an area of low-lying pasture to S of the Owenbeg River. A limestone slab (L c. 2.2m; T 1m at W end; 0.12m at E end; H c. 1m), with a rough convoluted moss-covered surface, is set on end in the ground. The long axis of the stone is perpendicular to the line of the fence and the stone protrudes from both the W and E faces of the fence. The stone is wedge-shaped in plan, with the broad W end gradually tapering to a narrow sharp-edged E end. The stone protrudes by c. 0.2-0.3m from the W side of the fence and 1.4m from the E side. A perforation (Wth 0.13m; max. H 0.35m) through the thickness of the stone occurs at the base of the stone close to the E face of the field fence. Due to overgrowth on the fence and the position of the perforation it is difficult to examine but it appears to be a natural solution hole, rather irregular and decreasing in size from S to N. St Fechin's well (SL026-010----) is c. 350m to W and St Fechin's church and bed (SL026-011001- and SL026-011002-) are c. 400m to SW. An enclosure (SL026-012001) lies c. 30m to N. 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

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

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_1009 (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 Billa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Billa · Bile

Area

997,744 m² (99.77 ha, 246.55 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysadare, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Ballysadare West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysadare West electoral division: 361 people in 131 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh Beg, Annagh More, Glen, Kilnamanagh, Kinnagrelly, Moymlough, Rathmore

Placenames

Billa 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.