Cloonshanbally
Townland in the civil parish of Drumrat, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Cluain an tSeanbhaile
- Area
- 121.5 ha
- 300 acres
- Land parcels
- 91
- registered freehold, median 2,322 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RV – rural village uses
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonshanbally, from 4 m² to 108,143 m² (10.81 ha, 26.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N6TU – transport and utilities-related infrastructure (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Apr 2020Conditional
development consisting of (1) demolition of the existing extensions to front and rear of existing hall (2) construction of new extensions to the front, side and rear of existing hall, part of which is to be used as an after school facility (3) alteration and refurbishment of the existing hall (4) and all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Sligo County Council, 20120
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonshanbally.
Recorded monuments
- SL039-128 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough waterlogged pasture, on the NW-facing slope of a drumlin. An oval area (int. diam. 14.9m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a low broad earthen bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.9m; D 0.1m) except at S where truncated by a lane. A gap (Wth 5.6m) occurs in the bank at N. The interior slopes down to W. 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
- SL039-129 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on top of a drumlin. This rath is inaccessible due to dense overgrowth of bushes and gorse, except for a narrow section at N. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m; outer bank: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) with a intervening silt-filled fosse (Wth 4.1m). An E-W lane was indicated on the 1838 and 1914 OS 6-inch maps bisecting 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
- SL039-130 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, at the NE end of a drumlin. The cropmark of a bank N-WSW visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 222-1) may be the remains of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It is not visible at ground level. A possible rath (SL039-130001-) lies c. 40m to NNE in the adjoining field. 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
- SL039-130001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on top of a ridge close to a break of slope at NE. This possible rath has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 222-1) as a cropmark of a bank surrounding a circular area (diam. c. 30m). A circular enclosure (SL039-130----) is c. 40m to SSW in the adjoining field. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonshanbally.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonshanbally.
- 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. 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Cloonshanbally, Culfadda6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Cloonshanbally · Cluain an tSeanbhaile
- Area
- 1,215,087 m² (121.51 ha, 300.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumrat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corran
- Electoral division
- Drumrat, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumrat electoral division: 540 people in 203 households; 79% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attiville, Battlefield, Drumaneel, Killined, Kilnaharry, Kiltyteige, Lisconwy, Listrush, Tawnagh
- Placenames
- Cloonshanbally 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.