Collinsford

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Collinsford, from 242 m² to 224,351 m² (22.44 ha, 55.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Collinsford 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 Collinsford 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 Collinsford.

Recorded monuments

• SL009-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level summit of a slight E-W orientated ridge, overlooking Drumcliff River 100m to N, in pasture. Slightly raised rectangular area (dims. 17m E-W; 12m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth (Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.35m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank encloses the site NE-NW being best preserved E-NW. From NW-NE the N side of the site is defined by a field boundary bank with a laneway to the N. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-022 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise overlooking Drumcliff River 100m to the NW in 10-15 year old coniferous forestry. Depicted on the 1837 and 1913 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c.20m). This monument appears to have been levelled; no surface trace visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-068 Enclosure
  Description

  The remains of this monument are visible as a sub-circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) on an aerial photograph (SMR file). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 September 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Collinsford.

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.

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

Name

Collinsford · An Machaire Mór

Area

993,325 m² (99.33 ha, 245.46 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcliff, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Glencar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glencar electoral division: 259 people in 89 households; 81% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonderry, Creaghadoo, Lislahelly, Lugatober, Lugnagall

Placenames

Collinsford 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.