# Branchfield, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmorgan, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Ceathrú an Fhraoigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,037,923 m² (203.79 ha, 503.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,697 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmorgan, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/kilmorgan.md - Barony: Corran - Electoral division: Drumfin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 412 people lived in 151 households in the Drumfin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/45292 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200196 - Centre: latitude 54.126619, longitude -8.474916 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Branchfield, from 116 m² to 160,921 m² (16.09 ha, 39.76 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 772103: 160,921 m² (16.09 ha, 39.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/772103.md - Parcel 735250: 156,995 m² (15.7 ha, 38.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/735250.md - Parcel 742567: 135,101 m² (13.51 ha, 33.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742567.md - Parcel 773117: 115,550 m² (11.55 ha, 28.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/773117.md - Parcel 772324: 111,225 m² (11.12 ha, 27.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/772324.md - Parcel 4913755: 62,873 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4913755.md - Parcel 739683: 59,599 m² (5.96 ha, 14.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739683.md - Parcel 773673: 58,062 m² (5.81 ha, 14.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/773673.md - Parcel 776736: 57,923 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/776736.md - Parcel 773307: 57,302 m² (5.73 ha, 14.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/773307.md - Parcel 736781: 55,945 m² (5.59 ha, 13.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/736781.md - Parcel 736464: 54,022 m² (5.4 ha, 13.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/736464.md - Parcel 753414: 50,917 m² (5.09 ha, 12.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/753414.md - Parcel 745441: 47,097 m² (4.71 ha, 11.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/745441.md - Parcel 757029: 45,958 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/757029.md - Parcel 744153: 45,265 m² (4.53 ha, 11.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/744153.md - Parcel 767105: 44,594 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/767105.md - Parcel 742320: 38,595 m² (3.86 ha, 9.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742320.md - Parcel 5400532: 36,018 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5400532.md - Parcel 779141: 35,931 m² (3.59 ha, 8.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779141.md - Parcel 774127: 33,601 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774127.md - Parcel 774445: 33,094 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774445.md - Parcel 758216: 33,000 m² (3.3 ha, 8.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758216.md - Parcel 775287: 32,757 m² (3.28 ha, 8.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775287.md - Parcel 780273: 32,309 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780273.md - Parcel 730299: 32,130 m² (3.21 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730299.md - Parcel 770347: 31,880 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/770347.md - Parcel 769244: 30,977 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769244.md - Parcel 774786: 30,118 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774786.md - Parcel 733377: 29,028 m² (2.9 ha, 7.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733377.md - Parcel 771629: 28,503 m² (2.85 ha, 7.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771629.md - Parcel 731352: 27,396 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/731352.md - Parcel 732615: 26,920 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732615.md - Parcel 777107: 23,658 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/777107.md - Parcel 730823: 19,218 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730823.md - Parcel 739492: 17,336 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739492.md - Parcel 766998: 15,304 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/766998.md - Parcel 757030: 13,015 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/757030.md - Parcel 770196: 11,245 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/770196.md - Parcel 738059: 8,200 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738059.md - Parcel 4913811: 8,181 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4913811.md - Parcel 6004996: 5,697 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6004996.md - Parcel 773536: 4,515 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/773536.md - Parcel 770780: 4,386 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/770780.md - Parcel 758524: 4,239 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758524.md - Parcel 761159: 4,069 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761159.md - Parcel 738237: 3,983 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738237.md - Parcel 5455184: 3,878 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5455184.md - Parcel 744312: 3,769 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/744312.md - Parcel 733101: 3,450 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/733101.md - Parcel 2437622: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2437622.md - Parcel 2964713: 2,980 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2964713.md - Parcel 749202: 2,950 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/749202.md - Parcel 4063618: 2,841 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4063618.md - Parcel 2442852: 2,755 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2442852.md - Parcel 760507: 2,589 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760507.md - Parcel 760112: 2,552 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760112.md - Parcel 744735: 2,544 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/744735.md - Parcel 768858: 2,318 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/768858.md - Parcel 2636770: 2,285 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2636770.md - Parcel 4793858: 2,282 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4793858.md - Parcel 755160: 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/755160.md - Parcel 749634: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/749634.md - Parcel 744550: 2,147 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/744550.md - Parcel 730519: 2,108 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730519.md - Parcel 760915: 2,064 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760915.md - Parcel 727420: 1,847 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/727420.md - Parcel 745020: 1,676 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/745020.md - Parcel 5491412: 1,593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5491412.md - Parcel 759094: 1,588 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/759094.md - Parcel 738511: 1,517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/738511.md - Parcel 765208: 1,442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/765208.md - Parcel 4438908: 1,249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438908.md - Parcel 2917919: 964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2917919.md - Parcel 5400531: 837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5400531.md - Parcel 4808633: 679 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4808633.md - Parcel 4438907: 650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4438907.md - Parcel 758525: 548 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/758525.md - Parcel 770504: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/770504.md - Parcel 4913766: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4913766.md - Parcel 4992927: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4992927.md - Parcel 5258735: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5258735.md - Parcel 4820893: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4820893.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Branchfield 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 16 Oct 2025, Sligo County Council 2560429: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) alterations and refurbishments to the existing dwelling house (2) new extensions to the front, side and rear of the existing dwelling house (3) new garage (4) a new effluent treatment system and percolation area (5) formation of a new site entrance (6) all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560429/0 - 17 Jun 2024, Sligo County Council 2460211: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct of a new dwelling house and domestic garage complete with waste water treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460211/0 - 9 Jun 2022, Sligo County Council 22203: Conditional. Retention. development consisting of alterations to front, rear and side elevations, together with all ancillary site works and services, previous planning reference PL19/380. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/22203/0 - 2 Mar 2022, Sligo County Council 2278: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Development consisting of construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage complete with waste water treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2278/0 - 26 Oct 2021, Sligo County Council 21427: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Development consisting of construction of a dwelling house and garage and proprietary wastewater treatment system including soil polishing filter and all associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21427/0 - 12 Sept 2019, Sligo County Council 19380: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Development consisting of the erection of a new single storey dwelling house, vehicular entrance, piers and gates, effluent treatment system together with all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19380/0 - 6 Mar 2019, Sligo County Council 1977: Conditional. Retention. for development consisting of the retention of a conservatory as constructed to the side of dwelling house; revised / enlarged application site boundaries to that permitted under PL 99/879; road boundary set back and as constructed of Hallmark Walling in lieu of natural stone wall permitted under PL 99/879. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/1977/0 - 31 Oct 2018, Sligo County Council 18426: Conditional. Retention. for development consisting of 1) Planning permission to retain dwelling house as constructed with revised design from that previously granted under PL 77/7290. 2) Planning permission to retain existing shed. 3) Planning permission to decommission existing septic tank and install a new on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18426/0 - 10 Oct 2018, Sligo County Council 18407: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage with integrated agricultural storage, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site together with all ancillary site works and services.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18407/0 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 Branchfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Branchfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Branchfield. ## 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 Branchfield, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Branchfield. - 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/branchfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/branchfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/branchfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Branchfield 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) - Carrickbanagher: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrickbanagher.md - Clooneen: https://everytownland.com/sligo/clooneen-200471.md - Drumfin: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumfin.md - Kilcreevin: https://everytownland.com/sligo/kilcreevin.md - Newpark: https://everytownland.com/sligo/newpark.md - Spotfield: https://everytownland.com/sligo/spotfield.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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/branchfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/branchfield