# Camross, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Emlaghfad, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Camros. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 830,328 m² (83.03 ha, 205.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,769 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 GB – green belt, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Emlaghfad, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/emlaghfad.md - Barony: Corran - Electoral division: Ballymote, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45023 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200222 - Centre: latitude 54.094839, longitude -8.530393 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camross, from 13 m² to 90,817 m² (9.08 ha, 22.44 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 734700: 90,817 m² (9.08 ha, 22.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734700.md - Parcel 774406: 72,329 m² (7.23 ha, 17.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774406.md - Parcel 734704: 65,273 m² (6.53 ha, 16.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734704.md - Parcel 734703: 63,357 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734703.md - Parcel 775379: 52,213 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775379.md - Parcel 775381: 46,858 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775381.md - Parcel 742450: 41,841 m² (4.18 ha, 10.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742450.md - Parcel 774408: 41,599 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774408.md - Parcel 765331: 40,566 m² (4.06 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765331.md - Parcel 775382: 28,955 m² (2.9 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775382.md - Parcel 734713: 28,817 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734713.md - Parcel 734701: 24,645 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734701.md - Parcel 774407: 20,277 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774407.md - Parcel 734699: 19,665 m² (1.97 ha, 4.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734699.md - Parcel 780607: 16,390 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780607.md - Parcel 744102: 13,491 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/744102.md - Parcel 751786: 10,952 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/751786.md - Parcel 734705: 10,912 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734705.md - Parcel 727184: 10,565 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/727184.md - Parcel 3641887: 9,610 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3641887.md - Parcel 2917908: 8,487 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2917908.md - Parcel 760691: 8,243 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760691.md - Parcel 734714: 7,991 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734714.md - Parcel 775383: 7,547 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775383.md - Parcel 737785: 7,178 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737785.md - Parcel 749828: 7,067 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/749828.md - Parcel 774721: 6,975 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774721.md - Parcel 758526: 5,439 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758526.md - Parcel 758527: 4,160 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758527.md - Parcel 5504995: 3,041 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5504995.md - Parcel 769586: 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769586.md - Parcel 750796: 2,211 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/750796.md - Parcel 745472: 1,668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/745472.md - Parcel 752252: 1,380 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/752252.md - Parcel 759536: 1,045 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/759536.md - Parcel 758571: 973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/758571.md - Parcel 734702: 474 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/734702.md - Parcel 3005027: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3005027.md - Parcel 775380: 369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/775380.md - Parcel 2639308: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639308.md - Parcel 2639307: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2639307.md - Parcel 2434719: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2434719.md - Parcel 4036079: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4036079.md - Parcel 5813483: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5813483.md - Parcel 4036086: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4036086.md - Parcel 2434720: 13 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2434720.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 21 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - R2 eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 9 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - G1 OS – open space (Open space, park): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - C2.1 BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - R1 nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 12 Feb 2026, Sligo County Council 2660048: Conditional. Permission. (1) proposed new Astro Pitch development including associated floodlighting and fencing and new spectator stand (2) proposed new spectator stand and new floodlighting to the existing soccer pitch (3) proposed new floodlighting to the existing gaelic pitch (4) new athletics/running track including a partially covered section (5) new athletics field events area (6) new tennis and paddle ball courts and new playground (7) new front entrance and front boundary treatment (8) new extended car parking area including public lighting and all associated site works all at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660048/0 - 11 Sept 2025, Sligo County Council 2560378: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) the construction of a new dwelling house (2) new garage (3) a new effluent treatment system and percolation area (4) formation of a new site entrance (5) and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560378/0 - 25 Sept 2024, Sligo County Council 2460325: Refused. Permission. land filling works for the purposes of agriculture, with materials consisting of topsoil to an area of 1.18 hectares. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460325/0 - 14 Jan 2024, Sligo County Council 2460010: N/a. Permission. (1) proposed new Astro Pitch development including associated floodlighting and fencing and new spectator stand (2) proposed new spectator stand and new floodlighting to the existing soccer pitch (3) proposed new floodlighting to the existing Gaelic Pitch (4) new athletics/running track including a partially covered section (5) new athletics field events area (6) new tennis courts and new playground (7) new front entrance and front boundary treatment (8) new extended car parking area including public lighting and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460010/0 - 19 Apr 2023, Sligo County Council 2347: Conditional. Permission. development consisting of the construction of a new Community Centre, along with all associated parking and site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2347/0 - 15 Feb 2021, Sligo County Council 2138: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. development consisting of the following; (1) Proposed demolition of existing dwelling house, (2) Construction of a detached dwelling house, (3) Proposed proprietary treatment plant and soil polishing filter, (4) Proposed upgrading of the existing site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2138/0 - 23 Mar 2020, Sligo County Council 2093: Conditional. Retention. Development consisting of the retention of (a) garage with first floor storage area (b) single storey garage (c) single storey shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2093/0 - 5 Jul 2017, Sligo County Council 17259: Conditional. Permission. provision of parking facilites on adjoining land consisting of 104 no. car parking spaces, 3 no. bus parking spaces and 3 no. mini-bus parking spaces with proposed new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/17259/0 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 Camross. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL033-088: Barrow - bowl-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL033-088----. In pasture, on top and towards the W end of the level summit of a ridge. An almost conical mound (diam. 14m at base, 1.4m at top; H 2.5m). Two small now disused quarry pits are dug into the base of the mound, one at NW and the other at NE. The sides of the mound have been eroded by livestock NE-SE and as a result some loose rocks have fallen from it. There are now no visible remains of the stone setting (Wth 0.7m; H 0.5m) close to the base of the mound at SE which was noted by M. Keane and J. Farrelly (pers. comm.). 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Camross. ## 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 Camross, 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 low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1038, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1038.zip (ZIP). - 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/camross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/camross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/camross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Camross 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) - Ballybrennan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballybrennan.md - Carrownanty: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrownanty.md - Derroon: https://everytownland.com/sligo/derroon.md - Rathdoony More: https://everytownland.com/sligo/rathdoony-more.md - Stoneparks: https://everytownland.com/sligo/stoneparks.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/camross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/camross