Dawros

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dawros, from 45 m² to 231,211 m² (23.12 ha, 57.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Dawros 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.

• 7 Apr 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of partial demolition, with renovation and extension to the existing dwelling, Including hard and soft landscaping and all associated site works, along with temporary accommodation located on site for the duration of the construction process.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660130

• 28 Jan 2026Conditional

  1. Upgrade of the existing septic tank system to an onsite sewerage system In accordance with EPA Code of Practice 2021. 2. Retention of rear and side extension to the existing domestic dwelling, previous planning permission PL94/19616 refers together with all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660025

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  Proposed Replacement Of An Existing Septic Tank System With An Onsite Sewerage System With Polishing Filter In Accordance With EPA Code of Practice 2021 And All Ancillary Works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460028

• 3 Oct 2022Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a proposed dwelling house, garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter, complete with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22328

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

Designated sites

The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.

Recorded monuments

• SL037-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Originally located on top of a low dry rise with bogland to E and W. The possible rath and the rise on which it stood have been removed due to quarrying. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 25m) with a trigonometrical station in the centre. 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 Dawros.

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 Dawros, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dawros · Damhros

Area

2,543,731 m² (254.37 ha, 628.57 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Banada, the unit of the census

Census 2022

610 people lived in 238 households in the Banada electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banada, Clooningan, Coolrecuill, Curraghbonaun, Curraghboy, Rathmagurry

Placenames

Dawros 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.