Cabraghkeel

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cabraghkeel, from 419 m² to 107,531 m² (10.75 ha, 26.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Cabraghkeel 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cabraghkeel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Cabraghkeel.

Recorded monuments

• SL010-006001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge c.200 from the sea-shore. Raised oval-shaped area (dims. 32.5m N-S; 26.3m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. c.5m; H 0.2m). No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Within the internal area is a souterrain (see SL010-006002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-006002 Souterrain
  Description

  At Cabraghkeel rath (see SL006-010001-). An opening in the bank at NNE gives access to a drystone-walled, linear passage roofed with large, stone slabs. This is blocked up after a short distance. However a roughly rectangular, hollow area (dims. 6m E-W; 2.4m N-S - D 0.6m), a short distance N of the centre of the rath's internal area, may mark a collapsed chamber. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-007 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the S bank of the mouth of the Leaffony River on the E shore of Killala Bay. Marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) map and on all OS editions of the OS 6-inch map. The OS recorded that the castle is believed to have been erected by the O'Dowds and was called 'Caislean poll a-chaonnaigh' or 'The castle of the hole of the moss' (OS Name Book (1837), 453). Part of the castle was still standing at that time. It was 'about three stories high' and appeared to have been 'built solely for strength'. A number of legends and placenames associated with the castle were also recorded. The site has been destroyed. Present remains comprise a circular, low, flat-topped mound (diam. 14m; H 1.4m). Much of the W and the N sides have been destroyed and are overlain by a modern roadway. The S side is truncated by a deep drain. Two deep quarry holes have been dug into the mound. There is no masonry now visible. (OS Letters 1836, 294 (119); O'Rorke 1890, 418; ITA Survey 1942-4). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-008001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise c. 200m from the E shore of Killala Bay. Partially levelled. Remains comprise a raised circular area (diam. 23.3m N-S; H 0.6-0.8m). No bank or fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Within the internal area is a souterrain (SL010-008002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-008002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL010-008001-). An opening in the NW quadrant of the rath gives access to a largely blocked-up passage or chamber (H c. 0.8m) whose walls are constructed of drystone masonry and which is roofed with flat slabs. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-009001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in lowlying pasture, c. 50m from the rocky shoreline on the E side of Killala Bay. Raised subcircular area (25m E-W; 20.2m N-S) enclosed by a levelled bank. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Within the internal area is a depression marking the site of a collapsed souterrain (SL010-009002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-009002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL010-009001-). Within the SW quadrant is an L-shaped depression marking the site of a collapsed souterrain passage. The depression extends E–W for 12m and at its W end extends to NW for c. 4-5m. Much of the stone from the souterrain has been robbed (local information). (OS Name Books, 461). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-010 Mound
  Description

  Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low rise in lowlying pasture with a stream c.60m N. Oval-shaped mound of earth and stone (dims. of top 22m N-S; 10.7m E-W - max H 0.8m). The top of the mound slopes gently from W to E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-012 Moated site
  Description

  Situated in lowlying pasture c. 50m W of the Leaffony River. Raised rectangular area (c.35m E-W; 33m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 5.2m; H 0.7m) which is absent at the S half of the site. At the external foot of the bank at NW is a wide fosse (Wth. 4.5m) with an outer bank (Wth. 4.5m; H 0.6m). Elsewhere these features are absent. Much of the S and E of the site has been levelled. In addition, a large oblong area has been quarried out of the SW quadrant. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL010-033 Souterrain
  Description

  This souterrain was discovered in 2002 when workmen displaced a roof stone while undertaking ground clearance works in advance of the construction of a house. The exposed hole revealed a souterrain chamber of drystone construction, roofed by stone lintels. The polygonal-shaped chamber (2.4m NW–SE; 2.2m NE–SW; H c. 2m) has a narrow lintelled opening at its SE end which leads to a short passage (L 1.5m NW–SE) on the same alignment as the chamber. A narrow opening at the S corner of this passage leads into a second passage (L 6m NE-SW; Wth c. 1m), which extends at right angles to SW. Roughly mid-way along the SE wall of this passage there is a blocked up creepway (Wth 0.45m; H 0.4m). At its SW end, the second passage opens into a third passage (Wth c. 0.9m) which extends at right angles to it for c. 3.2m to SE. The souterrain underlies the house and a modern road which fronts the E side of the house. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 6 March 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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.

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.

No address of the register names Cabraghkeel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cabraghkeel · An Chabrach Chaol

Area

1,178,812 m² (117.88 ha, 291.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilglass, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Easky West, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Carranduff, Rathlee

Placenames

Cabraghkeel on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.