# Doonaveeragh, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aghanagh, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish Dún na bhFiarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 791,720 m² (79.17 ha, 195.64 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 747,137 m² (74.71 ha, 184.62 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aghanagh, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/aghanagh.md
- Barony: Tirerrill
- Electoral division: Aghanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 391 people lived in 143 households in the Aghanagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44470
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200616
- Centre: latitude 54.051541, longitude -8.36154 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Doonaveeragh, from 747,137 m² (74.71 ha, 184.62 acres) to 747,137 m² (74.71 ha, 184.62 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 728839: 747,137 m² (74.71 ha, 184.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/728839.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Doonaveeragh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Doonaveeragh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Bricklieve Mountains and Keishcorran SAC, site code 001656, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001656
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bricklieve Mountains & Keishcorran, site code 001656

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL040-099: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-099----. This is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). Carn O in the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery. At the northern end of Doonaveeragh, the easternmost of the N-S aligned ridges forming the Bricklieve Mountains. A circular cairn (diam. 18-20m; H 2.5m), its lower levels grass-grown, contains towards its southern end a partly roofed chamber (L 2m; max. Wth 0.8m; H 0.9m). Built of orthostats and dry-wall infill, a narrowing of the chamber indicates a division into a shorter and narrower compartment, now roofless, to the S and a slightly wider and longer northern compartment, roofed by two slabs, one overlying the other. Both ends of the chamber are closed. It was investigated in 1911 (Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger 1912, 330, 336-7) when entry was gained through the roof. A decorated Bronze Age bowl was found within the chamber, resting on a pile of burnt and unburnt bones intermixed with small sandstone slabs (ibid.; Ó Riordáin and Waddell 1993,130). There is a Neolithic settlement (SL040-108----) on the lower ground to N. A cairn (SL040-100----) lies c. 200m to SSE. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 83-4) 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). See linked documents with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) together plans and sections of the monument (surveyed 1995). Date of upload: 27 May 2013
- SL040-100: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-100----. This is a National Monument in State care (no. 518). On the top of Doonaveeragh, in the Bricklieve Mountains. A grass-covered conical cairn (diam. 9.1m x 11.4m; H 2m); two possible kerbstones are visible at SW. There is a Neolithic settlement (SL040-108----) on the lower ground to N. A possible passage tomb (SL040-099----) lies c. 200m to NNW. 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 See linked document with a plan and sections of the monument (surveyed 1995). Date of upload: 27 May 2013
- SL040-111: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-111----. In rocky pasture, on top of a narrow ridge towards the S end of a knoll. The remains of an oval sod-covered stone structure (int. diam. 4.15m x 3.4m) defined by the foundations of a stone wall (T 1.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m). The entrance (Wth 1.4m) is at NE. 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
- SL040-197: Road - road/trackway, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-197----. The Red Earl's Road, probably of medieval origin, linked the towns of Ballymote, Co. Sligo and Boyle, Co. Roscommon, by a route around the N and E sides of the Bricklieve Mountains (M. A. Timoney 1998, 155), a distance of c. 21km. It is said to have been built by Richard de Burgh, The Red Earl of Ulster, after the Norman conquest, to link his castle (SL033-092----) at Ballymote with Boyle Abbey (RO006-068005-), Co. Roscommon. The road traverses a number of townlands over a number of 6-inch sheets (OS 33: Bellanascarrow West/Roscrib East/Roscrib West/Ballinvoher; OS 34: Drumcormick/ Bricklieve/Tiraree; OS 40: Cloghoge Lower/Carrowkeel/Mullaghfarna/ Doonaveeragh/Knockroe/Cuilsheeghary More/Mountgaffeny/Ballinafad/Gortalough/ Ballaghboy/Cartron; OS 45: Ballaghboy/Cartron). Sections of the road are recorded under five records (SL033-147----; SL034-159----; SL040-023----; SL040-197----; SL040-190----) commencing at Ballymote and following the route E and then S to the county boundary with Roscommon. Only sections of the road are indicated on the 1914 and 1941 OS 6-inch maps even though it was, of course, continuous. A possible link road between Bothar an Iarla Ruaid and Bothar an Corran (SL033-145----) goes from Greenan townland, around the S side of the Bricklieve Mountains, to Ballinafad. At its nearest point, Bothar an Corran is c. 0.8km to the SW. This section (SL040-197----) (L c. 2.6km) is partly surviving as a trackway and partly covered by a tarred road. The trackway (Wth c. 3m) is defined by low banks of earth and stone (Wth 1m; H 0.4m) and in places on its W side by a scarp where the track is cut into the natural slope. Another section of the road (SL040-023----) is c. 1.2km to NW and a further stretch (SL040-190----) lies 1.3km to SE. 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 revision: 1 June 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Doonaveeragh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonaveeragh.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonaveeragh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonaveeragh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonaveeragh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Doonaveeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carricknahorna East: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carricknahorna-east.md
- Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockroe-200906.md
- Mullaghfarna: https://everytownland.com/sligo/mullaghfarna.md
- Whitehill: https://everytownland.com/sligo/whitehill-201265.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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