Cully

115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cully, from 527 m² to 174,852 m² (17.49 ha, 43.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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 Cully 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.

• 9 Sept 2026N/a

  Proposed extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house, together with a proposed new domestic garage and wastewater treatment system, complete with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660372

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  Construct a proposed new dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system, complete with all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660316

• 1 Sept 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of construction of extensions to an existing dwelling house and upgrading of an existing septic tank to a packaged tertiary effluent treatment unit with polishing filter and all ancillary works. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17333

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• SL042-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the gentle S-facing slope of a low ridge. An oval area (36 N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) NW-N and by a scarp (H 0.9m) N-SW. An intervening flat-bottomed dry fosse (Wth 7m) is evident SW-S. An outer bank (Wth 2.25m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.2m) is evident NW-SE with a short section surviving along the W arc. The S portion of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. A N-S field boundary bisects the interior. The inner bank is truncated at W by a N-S hedgerow. 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 Cully.

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 Cully, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Cully · An Choillidh

Area

3,519,089 m² (351.91 ha, 869.59 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Achonry West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

810 people lived in 311 households in the Achonry West electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfinish (Co. Mayo), Cloonlaughil, Coolrawer, Lislaughna (Co. Mayo), Montiagh, Sonnagh (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Cully 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.