Bookaun (Tottenham)

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bookaun (Tottenham), from 1,150 m² to 172,526 m² (17.25 ha, 42.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Bookaun (Tottenham) 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.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct new agricultural entrance to lands, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660019

• 6 Dec 2017Conditional

  Development consisting of construction of new agricultural entrance to lands, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17455

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 Bookaun (Tottenham).

Recorded monuments

• SL011-032 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, straddling the level top and gentle SE-facing slope of a broad low hill. Ground falls away gently towards the Ballybeg River c. 100m to E. The hill and the surrounding field are dotted with boulders/erratics. Subcircular area (53m N–S; 53m E–W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8-2m; int. H 0.65-1.1m; ext. H 0.75-0.8m). The bank is composed of a core of earth and stone with a rough facing of large rounded or irregular-shaped boulders. The degree of preservation of the bank is variable and there are several breaks, or severely eroded sections, including breaks at NE (Wth 4m), E (3m), S (3m) and SW (c. 10m), NW (Wth 3m). In the N half of the interior there is a slight slope down from NW to SE but ground levels out in the S half. A subrectangular area (19m N-S; 22.5m E-W) in the SE quadrant of the interior is partitioned off by a bank of earth and stone, now very degraded. A large prostrate stone (min. L 2.7m; min. Wth 1m), possibly bedrock, protrudes from the sod in the W half of the partitioned area. A break (Wth 3m), in the enclosure bank at S, allow access into the partitioned off area. A field wall of boulders extends for 18m to S from the SW edge of the enclosure, and remnants of another possible field boundary (L 7m N-S; Wth 1.2-2m; H 0.4m) abuts the enclosure at S. These field boundaries are part of a field system (SL011-032002-), fragmentary remains of which traverse the hill. There is a mound (SL011-032001-) immediately to NW of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 November 2013

• SL011-032001 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, on the top of a broad low hill. Ground falls away gently towards the Ballybeg River c. 100m to E. The location provides extensive views of the surrounding gently undulating coastal pastureland, with the sea visible in the distance to N, the Ox Mountains on the skyline to SE, and Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg range visible on the far horizon to SW. A low, roughly D-shaped earthen mound (14m N–S; 10m E–W) which may originally have been circular. It has a gently domed profile, with a slightly flattened top which grades gently into broadly sloping sides (H 0.6m at S, 1.3m at W and N) at SE–N. The straight side is at E. Here the slope is very shallow and grades seamlessly into the surrounding ground level so that the limits of the mound on this side are difficult to define. It is not shown on OS 6-inch maps but the location is marked as a trigonometrical station (145 feet OD) on 1913 edition. Immediately to SSW of the mound there is a large enclosure (SL011-032----). Fragmentary remains of a field system (SL011-032002-) can be traced across the hill. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 December 2013

• SL011-032002 Field system
  Description

  In pasture/grazing, on the level top and the gentle slopes of a broad low hill. Ground falls away gently towards the Ballybeg River c. 100m to E. The hill and the surrounding area are dotted with boulders/erratics. Fragmentary remains of a field system are visible in the vicinity of an enclosure (SL011-032----) and a mound (SL011-032001-). One field boundary intersects with the enclosing stone-faced bank of the enclosure at SW. This field boundary (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.6-0.8), which appear as a linear sod-covered rise incorporating large boulders, extends for 18m to S of the enclosure. Intersecting with it is a short length (c. 3m E–W) of a perpendicular field boundary which extends to E. Fragments of other field walls on an E-W axis can be discerned c. 30m to E and SE. Linear concentarions of boulders, which may be remnants of field boundaries also occur to NW of the enclosure, located immediately to W of the mound (SL011-032001-), and c. 90m to SW of the enclosure. The field boundary which intersects with the SW of the enclosure is shown on the 1913 OS 6-inch map but the field system as a whole is not shown on that edition or on the earlier 1837 edition. The extant remains are too scattered and fragmentary to allow reconstruction of the original pattern and size of the fields. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 January 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bookaun (Tottenham).

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 5 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 Bookaun (Tottenham).

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 Bookaun (Tottenham) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Bookaun (Tottenham) · Buacán (Tottenham)

Area

322,466 m² (32.25 ha, 79.68 acres)

Civil parish

Easky, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Easky West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Easky West electoral division: 664 people in 271 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballycummin, Bookaun (Browne), Carrownrod, Fortland, Monereagh, Rathmeel

Placenames

Bookaun (Tottenham) 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.