# Cams, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tawnagh, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish Na Cama.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,520,953 m² (152.1 ha, 375.84 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,420 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tawnagh, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/tawnagh.md
- Barony: Tirerrill
- 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/57325
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200223
- Centre: latitude 54.095689, longitude -8.423987 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cams, from 8 m² to 178,968 m² (17.9 ha, 44.22 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1537043: 178,968 m² (17.9 ha, 44.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1537043.md
- Parcel 775262: 114,493 m² (11.45 ha, 28.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775262.md
- Parcel 765781: 113,195 m² (11.32 ha, 27.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765781.md
- Parcel 740422: 112,533 m² (11.25 ha, 27.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740422.md
- Parcel 742361: 107,818 m² (10.78 ha, 26.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742361.md
- Parcel 734356: 105,987 m² (10.6 ha, 26.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734356.md
- Parcel 771951: 105,718 m² (10.57 ha, 26.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771951.md
- Parcel 745750: 88,930 m² (8.89 ha, 21.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/745750.md
- Parcel 780626: 60,935 m² (6.09 ha, 15.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780626.md
- Parcel 746858: 59,440 m² (5.94 ha, 14.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/746858.md
- Parcel 776644: 55,991 m² (5.6 ha, 13.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/776644.md
- Parcel 735027: 54,872 m² (5.49 ha, 13.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/735027.md
- Parcel 1537238: 51,894 m² (5.19 ha, 12.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1537238.md
- Parcel 780289: 46,365 m² (4.64 ha, 11.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780289.md
- Parcel 5232666: 36,759 m² (3.68 ha, 9.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232666.md
- Parcel 1537239: 31,024 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1537239.md
- Parcel 1537042: 29,368 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1537042.md
- Parcel 731694: 19,847 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/731694.md
- Parcel 771900: 15,839 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771900.md
- Parcel 778420: 14,939 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/778420.md
- Parcel 766099: 12,974 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/766099.md
- Parcel 730838: 11,977 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730838.md
- Parcel 777487: 11,939 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/777487.md
- Parcel 734658: 11,420 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734658.md
- Parcel 762499: 11,408 m² (1.14 ha, 2.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/762499.md
- Parcel 752895: 5,633 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752895.md
- Parcel 760775: 5,260 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760775.md
- Parcel 748080: 4,713 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/748080.md
- Parcel 5454920: 4,667 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5454920.md
- Parcel 732847: 4,596 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732847.md
- Parcel 1536348: 4,265 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1536348.md
- Parcel 1536349: 4,197 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1536349.md
- Parcel 6080858: 3,444 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6080858.md
- Parcel 4688034: 3,157 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688034.md
- Parcel 6080859: 2,655 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6080859.md
- Parcel 2971041: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2971041.md
- Parcel 2687582: 2,117 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2687582.md
- Parcel 3349807: 1,813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3349807.md
- Parcel 750988: 1,553 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/750988.md
- Parcel 5761435: 1,423 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5761435.md
- Parcel 6080866: 1,086 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6080866.md
- Parcel 5204704: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5204704.md
- Parcel 2640185: 681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2640185.md
- Parcel 6080870: 463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6080870.md
- Parcel 5329197: 260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5329197.md
- Parcel 5762170: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5762170.md
- Parcel 5762162: 8 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5762162.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Cams 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 19 Jun 2026, Sligo County Council 2660235: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and install an on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660235/0
- 25 Mar 2026, Sligo County Council 2660112: Conditional. Permission. permission to construct 1) a walled silage slab with seepage collection tank, 2) decommission existing underground tank and construct a new underground waste water holding tank. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660112/0
- 24 Jul 2024, Sligo County Council 2460248: Refused. Retention. (a) Permission for retention of detached domestic garage as constructed on site which differs in size, plan and elevations from that permitted under PL 18/415. (b) Permission to retain second detached shed on site. (c) Permission to retain decking area to rear of dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460248/0
- 23 Sept 2019, Sligo County Council 19396: Conditional. Permission. for development consisting of the construction of a slatted cubicle livestock unit with underground slurry storage tank and carry out ancillary site developmnt works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19396/0
- 16 Oct 2018, Sligo County Council 18415: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Development consisting of the construction of a single storey detached domestic garage to the side of existing detached dwelling house.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18415/0

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 Cams.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL034-097001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-097001-. In rough pasture, on top of a ridge and adjacent to a road. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 22m) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) with a number of gaps, and by an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.7m) E-NW. There is a possible entrance (Wth 4m) at SW with a causeway across the fosse. There is a souterrain (SL034-097002-) in the NW quadrant. The perimeter is overgrown at E and N. Another rath (SL034-098----) is c. 40m to SE. 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
- SL034-097002: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-097002-. In the NW quadrant of a rath (SL034-097001-). A linear stone-lined passage (long axis E-W) with a lintelled roof, leads westwards to a circular stone-lined chamber (diam. 1.6m; H 0.8m) which is adjacent to the bank of the rath. Prof. R. A. S. Macalister, in an unpublished report dated 1911, noted that the passage was divided into two by a partition with a lintelled creepway (SMR (1989) file). 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
- SL034-098: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-098----. In rough pasture, on top of a ridge and adjacent to a road. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) with faint traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m). There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at W. Another rath (SL034-097001-) is c. 40m to NW. 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
- SL034-099: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-099----. On rocky pasture about 4km W of the N end of Lough Arrow. Scant structural remains of a tomb survive in a low, poorly defined oval mound (19m NE-SW; max. 12m NW-SE). Two adjoining sidestones (combined length 4m) and a jamb remain of the more southerly side of a gallery aligned NE-SW. The jamb is at the NE end of the line described by the two sidestones and just 1m beyond the opposite end there is a prostrate slab, possibly a fallen backstone. Between this and the line of stones there is an upright stone which does not appear to be in situ. There are also some prostrate stones at the site. Some 2m E of the jamb a depression in the mound may mark the position of a court. 'Toberstarley' holy well (SL034-100001-) lies c. 50m to S. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 62, no. 100) 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
- SL034-100001: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-100001-. In rough marshy pasture. A low semicircular earth and stone bank (Wth 1.6m; H 0.5m) encloses a shallow pool of water (diam. 2m; D 0.3m). A concrete pump-house is immediately adjacent. Named 'Toberstarling' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A court tomb (SL034-099----) lies c. 50m to N and 'Tobernagalliagh' (SL034-100002-) c. 100m to S. According to Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1), this well was 'formerly held in estimation as "holy"'. 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
- SL034-100002: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-100002-. In boggy pasture, at the base of a NE-facing slope c. 100m S of 'Toberstarley' (SL034-100001-). A natural spring well, defined by small stones, immediately to W of a field boundary. Named 'Tobernagalliagh' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. According to Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1), this well was 'formerly held in estimation as "holy"'. 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
- SL034-101: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-101----. In rough pasture, on the W-facing slope of a ridge. The remains of a circular area (int. diam. 52m N-S; 54m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) NE-S and by a scarp NNW-NE. An external fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.2m) is evident along the E arc, silted-up along the W arc where it is marked by a thick band of irises. The interior slopes gently down to W. A NE-SW field boundary incorporates the E bank of the rath and joins another field boundary (on a NW-SE axis) to S which cuts across the line of the fosse on the SW edge of the rath. 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
- SL034-103001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-103001-. In pasture, on top of a ridge, adjacent to a farmyard on the NE side of a road. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) which is best preserved along the N and E arcs. The remnants of internal stone kerbing is evident and a number of eroded gaps were noted along the bank. An external fosse (Wth c. 2m) is evident as a shallow depression. The farmyard boundary abuts the bank at E and S where the bank is heavily overgrown. There is a possible souterrain (SL034-103002-) in the SW quadrant. A trigonometrical station is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map on S edge of the rath. 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
- SL034-103002: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-103002-. In a rath (SL034-103001-). Prof. R. A. S. Macalister, in an unpublished report dated 1911, described 'some large stones' on top of the bank at the SW side of the rath and 'a depression on the surface as though there had been a souterrain' (SMR (1989) file). Two large slabs on the ground near the bank in the SW quadrant are still evident. 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
- SL034-257: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL034-257----. In rough pasture, located on a steep SW-facing slope, which drops into a broad valley, with a small stream in its base. There are very good views into the valley, and to S, with Carrowkeel visible in the distance to SE and Kesh Corran to SSW. This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A broadly oval area (70m NE–SW; 60-65m NW–SE) is defined by a fosse (W c. 2m) evident as a barely-discernible depression. At S–SW a slight scarp can be traced where the arc of the enclosure coincides with the base of the natural slope. The interior is not raised relative to exterior ground level, and slopes steeply down to SW, reflecting the natural slope. A field bank/property boundary, on a NE–SW axis, cuts through the enclosure to NW of centre. Part of the W quadrant of the interior has been incorporated into a small plantation of deciduous trees. At SE the fosse is truncated by a subcircular quarry pit (diam. c. 12m), now grassed over. A rath (SL034-103001-) is located 175m to NW and another (SL034-104----) 250m to WSW. Attached image: SL034-257----_01.JPG SE half of enclosure, viewed from E Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 March 2020

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 Cams.

## 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 Cams, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1166, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1166.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/cams.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cams.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cams.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cams 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)

- Aghalenane: https://everytownland.com/sligo/aghalenane.md
- Ardlee: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardlee.md
- Ardloy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ardloy.md
- Cappagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cappagh-200225.md
- Kilmorgan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/kilmorgan.md
- Kingsbrook: https://everytownland.com/sligo/kingsbrook.md
- Tiraree: https://everytownland.com/sligo/tiraree.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.

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