Cuiltylough

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuiltylough, from 18 m² to 121,046 m² (12.1 ha, 29.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 31 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 · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  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.

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) Retention of an existing domestic shed to the rear of an existing dwelling and (2) Permission to construct a two storey extension, including a ground floor accessible bathroom and bedroom, and all associated site works to an existing two storey semi-detached dwelling

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460456

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  Changes to previously approved planning permission PL 23/60007, including changes to fenestration and entrance door, introduction of canopies to main entrance, reduction in the number of level changes to the terrace of houses, reduction in the number of steps in the building line along the terrace and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460416

• 2 Oct 2024N/a

  construction of a two storey extension, including a ground floor accessible bathroom and bedroom, to an existing two storey semi-detached house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460335

• 28 Sept 2023Conditional

  single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and connection to existing services on site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360258

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house consisting of (a) alterations to front elevation, (b) extension to rear of dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and connection to existing services on site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360131

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of erection of a 30m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment all enclosed in security fencing with a proposed access track

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 21447

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Meharth Lough 001900
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL034-016 Crannog
  Description

  At the SE end of Lough Meharth, an inter-drumlin lake and intervisible with another crannog (SL034-015----) c. 400m to NW. An almost submerged, oval low-cairn crannog (11m N-S; 14m E-W; H 1m above the lake-bed) with irregular edges. There is a mid-mound (3.2m N-S; 4m E-W) off-centre to E, the firm surface of which consists of grass and some rounded stones (diam. c. 0.3m). The mid-mound is on a plateau that consists of mud and some rounded and subangular stones. The plateau is wider to the W where it stretches out for c. 10m before sloping into the water. 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

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey stone house, built c. 1860, with two-storey return and single-storey lean-to to rear (east). Now in use as post office. Pitched artificial slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron moulded gutters on painted timber eaves fascia, cast-iron downpipes. Rubble stone walling, dressed ashlar limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, block-and-start yellow brick surrounds, limestone sills, hardwood casements c. 1980. Window opening to south ground floor converted to square-headed door opening with timber and glazed door c. 1980. Segmental-headed door opening, yellow brick arch, smooth-rendered reveals, hardwood panelled door with glazed sidelights and fanlight c. 1980. Street fronted, enclosed yard to rear, two-storey rubble masonry outbuildings to north-east.

• Kingsville, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay one-and-a-half-storey rendered house, with dormer attic to the south side of west elevation, built c. 1890. Originally T-plan with single-storey lean-to entrance porch in angle between wings, single-storey canted bay window to west elevation, single-storey extensions to south and east c. 1940. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted roughcast corbelled chimneys, gabled dormer, extruded aluminium rainwater goods, projecting painted timber fascias, painted timber barge boards. Painted roughcast walling, tooled ashlar limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, block-and-start tooled ashlar limestone surrounds, limestone sills, uPVC casements c. 1990. Square-headed door opening to entrance porch, block-and-start tooled ashlar limestone surround, hardwood panelled door c. 1980. Set back from road in landscaped grounds, two-storey rendered outbuilding c. 1890 to rear, rubble stone boundary wall, cut stone gate piers, wrought-iron gates.

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 Cuiltylough, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1182 (ZIP).

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 Cuiltylough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cuiltylough · Coillte Locha

Area

580,311 m² (58.03 ha, 143.4 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcolumb, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

753 people lived in 283 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcumber, Ardkeeran, Ardvarney, Carrowcashel, Emlagh

Placenames

Cuiltylough 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.