Doonally

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonally, from 48 m² to 459,140 m² (45.91 ha, 113.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  PP - for development consisting of: 1. Revised house design to that granted under PL19/307, 2. Relocation of the proposed dwelling 4.9 m to the south east of location granted under PL19/307.

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 20259

• 29 Jul 2019Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of new dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19307

• 27 Mar 2017Conditional

  development consisting of alterations to existing building formerly used for administration and conversion for new use as a day centre for school leavers with a learning disability. The proposed development includes decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter together with associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17115

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 Doonally.

Recorded monuments

• SL009-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in low-lying gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 of the OS 6-inch map but depicted on the 1913 edition as a roughly pentagonal area (dims. c.10m N-S; c.10m E-W) attached to N side of E-W orientated field boundary. The site has been levelled. No remains of the site are visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level summit of a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.3m). Both the bank and the fosse enclose the entire site having a consistent profile along the entire circuit. A break (Wth 2.3m) in the bank with a causeway across the fosse at SE marks the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a very slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 6m; int. H 0.3m). At the external foot of the bank is a berm (Wth 4m) and an external bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m). The internal bank encloses the site on all sides except for a small portion quarried away at NE. Both the berm and the external bank enclose the site SE-NW and are not visible at ground level elsewhere. The original entrance is via a break (Wth 2.4m) in the internal bank at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised semi-circular area (dims. 24m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) enclosed by a narrow bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original earth and stone bank encloses the site NW-SE. From SE-SSW the edge of the rath has been quarried away. From SSW-NW the edge of the site has been removed also by quarrying an irregular bank of spoil has been dumped along the line of the bank of the rath. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-038 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but depicted on the 1913 edition of the 6'' OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular hachured enclosure (diam. c.10m). This monument has been levelled and there are no remains now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL009-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a moderate SW-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 20m) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.6m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.6m). The bank and fosse enclose the site on all sides and both have a regular profile. The original entrance is not recognisable. There are small livestock tracks (all 0.4-0.8m in width) through the bank at N, E, SE and SW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL015-001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level ground in gently undulating pasture. Not shown on any edition of the 6'' OS 6-inch map. Visible as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c.20m) from aerial photography (GSI G 33-4).No visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Architectural heritage

• Doonally House, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey-over-basement rendered former house, built c. 1830, now derelict and used as store. L-plan, single-bay break-front to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks with clay pots, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, limestone sills, painted twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to ground floor, eight-over-eight to first floor, six-over-six to other elevations. Round-headed entrance door opening, plain flanking polished ashlar pilasters, moulded archivolt, wrought-iron cobweb fanlight, original door missing. Set in former demesne. Farmyard to east with single- and two-storey roughcast and stone buildings some with elliptical-headed carriage openings. Two-storey L-plan outbuilding to north, hipped slate roof, squared and coursed rubble stone walling, ashlar dressings, in advanced state of dereliction. Detached three-bay single-storey stone former summer house, built c. 1885, now derelict, to the northeast of main house. Hipped slate roof, clay hip tiles. Squared and coursed rubble limestone walling, brick eaves corbel course. Square-headed window openings, brick dressings, limestone sills, windows missing. Square-headed door opening, brick dressings, door missing. Interior contains two round-headed semi-circular brick niches to south-east and south-west corners. Roof structure designed to form base for shallow dome on elliptical plan. South-facing, set against rubble stone north wall of former walled garden, date stone 1883, Doonally House to southwest.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1130 (ZIP).

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

Name

Doonally · Dún Aille

Area

939,124 m² (93.91 ha, 232.06 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcliff, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Drumcliff East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcliff East electoral division: 764 people in 299 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barroe, Carncash, Doonally, Drum East, Drumkilsellagh, Kiltycooly, Shannon Oughter, Willowbrook

Placenames

Doonally 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.