Chaffpool

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chaffpool, from 1,369 m² to 95,446 m² (9.54 ha, 23.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Chaffpool 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.

• 10 Oct 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a sheep shed with underground slatted tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17388

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 Chaffpool.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Chaffpool.

Architectural heritage

• Chaffpool House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1880, now derelict. L-shaped on plan, projecting gable-fronted bay to north side of east elevation, single-storey canted bay window to south side, contiguous range of outbuildings to south. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack, rainwater goods missing from east elevation, cast-iron gutters on paired stone corbels to west elevation, projecting painted timber eaves and bargeboards. Lead sheet roof to bay window, moulded cast-iron gutters. Unpainted roughcast walling, unpainted smooth-rendered margins to gable-ends and bay window. Square-headed window openings, hood mouldings to windows in gable-ends, limestone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Small lunette on north gable, west elevation devoid of window openings. Round-headed entrance door opening, moulded render archivolt on plain pilasters, painted four-panel timber door, plain-glazed fanlight over, flanking square-headed sidelights with one-over-one sash windows, two stone steps. Square-headed door opening to west elevation, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Grass area to east, drystone boundary walls, extensive ranges of ruinous outbuildings to south and west with slate roofs and rubble stone walling, limestone quarry to north.

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

At the centre of the townland of Chaffpool, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Chaffpool.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Chaffpool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Chaffpool · Loch na Cáithe

Area

1,203,793 m² (120.38 ha, 297.46 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

381 people lived in 132 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Achonry, Carrowkeel, Mullanabreena

Placenames

Chaffpool 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.