Doonbeakin

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonbeakin, from 37 m² to 124,897 m² (12.49 ha, 30.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Doonbeakin 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.

• 26 Aug 2022Conditional

  development consisting of a fifteen (15) year continuation of the operational life of the existing wind farm (SCC Reg. Ref. PL03/619 & ABP Pl. Ref. 21.204790, as amended by SCC Reg. Ref PL10/371 and PL10/388) from the date of expiration (March 2024) of the current permissions. No modifications are proposed to the existing windfarm which comprises the following elements: (a) 13 no. existing Vestas V52 850 kilowatt (kW) wind turbines with a maximum overall blade tip height of 75 metres (m) (b) Existing 1 no. onsite 20 kilovolt (kv) electrical substation compound which includes a control building, welfare facilities, associated electrical plant and equipment, security fencing, associated underground cabling and a foul waste holding tank (c) Existing 1 no. permanent meteorological mast with a height of 50m and an associated concrete platform/base; (d) All associated existing underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the on-site substation; (e) Existing site access tracks of circa 3.3 kilometres (km) total length, 3 no. car parking spaces and 13 no. turbine hardstands; (f) 2 No. existing gated site entrances from an unnamed third-class public road which dissects the windfarm site into north and south; (g) Existing site drainage; and (h) All existing ancillary infrastructure, associated site fencing and signage. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompanies this application.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 22291

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 Doonbeakin.

Recorded monuments

• SL018-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the SE side of a rise in poorly drained pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8-3m; int. H 0.6m at N, 1m at S; ext. H 1.2m at N, 2m at S) which has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary from E–S. At the outer foot of the bank at W–NW is a wide, shallow depression (Wth 5-6m) which may mark the site of a fosse. A break (Wth. 2m) in bank at N possibly represents original entrance. There is a second break in the bank, probably modern, at SW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 34.5m) enclosed by on the W half by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.1m). At the outer foot of the bank and scarp is a wide, deep, U-shaped fosse (Wth 3m) with an outer bank. The outer bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 2.4m; ext. H 0.9m) is best preserved at N–NE. At E–S the fosse and outer bank are truncated by a modern NE-SW field boundary. At SW–W the outer bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise overlooking the W bank of the Doonbeakin River. Raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9-5m; int. H 0.2m at SE, 0.7m at NW; ext. H 2m at SE, 1.3m at NW). A farm yard lies immediately to E and a farm building abuts the rath at NE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-017 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL018-019 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated in relatively level pasture c. 100m W of the Dunowla River. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. 'Cave' is marked on the 1913 edition, possibly indicating the location of a souterrain. There are no remains visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-095 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on gently elevated ground in the SW quadrant of the enclosure (SL018-095001-), on a strip of land flanked at W by the Ballyglass River and at E by the Doonbeakin River. The souterrain is of drystone construction with lintel roofing. A rectangular surface depression encloses an access hole (1.6m NE–SW; 0.65m NW–SE) through the roof of the souterrain, created by the displacement of a stone roof lintel. It opens onto the SE end of a roughly oval chamber (3.62m NW–SE; 1.8m NE–SW; H c. 1.36m). The floor of the chamber slopes down gently towards the NW, and is covered in loose stone rubble. At the N corner of the NW end of the chamber, the two side walls converge at an opening (Wth 0.6m NE–SW; H c. 0.96m) to a short blind passage (L 1.66m NW–SE) which curves slightly to NW. There is no obvious evidence for a continuation of the souterrain to NW or N from this passage. At the SE end of the oval chamber, the two side walls converge at an opening into a cupboard-like recess or small chamber (L 1.07m NE–SW; Wth 0.75m NW–SE at entrance, expanding to 1.18m at back wall; H 0.76m) which is trapezoidal in plan. It has space sufficient only for one person to crouch in. A large flat slab serves as a threshold stone at the entrance, and is set higher than the floor of the oval chamber. The floor of the little chamber is paved with slabs. The roof is formed by stone lintels. These are arranged so that there is one central, recessed square lintel (0.59m NW–SE; 0.46-0.59m NE–SW). This may be an original trapdoor entrance to the souterrain, dropping from ground surface into the small trapezoidal chamber which served as an antechamber to the large oval chamber. Beneath the threshold stone of the antechamber is a partly concealed opening into a creep or low, narrow passage (Wth c. 0.75m). The passage slopes down beneath the small chamber/antechamber, the threshold stone of which serves as the first roof lintel of the passage. It is filled with stone rubble but can be seen to continue for at least 2m to SE. There is a field clearance cairn (3m N–S; 3.5m E–W; H 0.8m) immediately to E of the access hole to the souterrain, and a second field clearance cairn (diam. 4m; H 1.1m) is located 3m to E of that. A bank/scarp, with a pronounced external face (H 0.85m) and a slight internal lip (Wth c. 2m), skirts the two cairns and the souterrain at S–W, defining the elevated ground on which they are located. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 July 2014

• SL018-095001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a strip (Wth 100-200m) of gently elevated, level ground bordered by the Ballyglass River at W and the Doonbeakin River at E. A ford on the Ballyglass River is shown on 1913 OS 6-inch map c. 45m to NW of the enclosure, adjacent to a ruined vernacular farmstead. The two rivers converge c. 200m to N of the enclosure where other fording points are shown on the 1913 OS 6-inch map. Ovoid area (82m N–S; 67m E–W) defined by a sod-covered, ruined drystone wall. The W half of the enclosure encompasses higher, level ground from where there is a gentle slope to N and NE where the ground levels out again. At W and N the wall is incorporated into field plots associated with the adjacent vernacular cottage. The interior of the enclosure is bisected centrally, on an E–W axis, by a ruined, largely sod-covered drystone wall (Wth 1m; H 0.6m), roughly built of rounded boulders. There is a souterrain (SL018-095----) in the elevated SW quadrant of the interior. Immediately to E of the access hole to the souterrain, there is a grass-covered, circular field clearance cairn (3m N–S; 3.5m E–W; H 0.8m). A second cairn (diam. 4m; H 1.1m) is located 3m to E of that. A bank/scarp (H 0.85m) skirts the two cairns and the souterrain at S–W, defining the elevated ground on which they are located. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doonbeakin · Dún mBéicín

Area

2,280,278 m² (228.03 ha, 563.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Templeboy South, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Altans, Ballyglass, Dunowla, Tawnadremira

Placenames

Doonbeakin 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.