Doonflin Lower

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonflin Lower, from 32 m² to 237,629 m² (23.76 ha, 58.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Doonflin Lower 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.

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

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 Doonflin Lower.

Recorded monuments

• SL012-083001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, situated on a NW-SE ridge, overlooking a small stream valley to NE. Raised circular area (diam. c. 22m) enclosed by a bank (Wth. 3.8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 3.2m, at NW) with largely infilled external fosse (Wth. 4m). At the outer edge of the fosse at W is a second bank (Wth. c. 2.3m; int. H 1.65m; ext. H 0.4m). Original entrance may have been at E. There is a souterrain (SL012-083002-) in the S half of internal area. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-083002 Souterrain
  Description

  At a rath (SL012-083001-). Collapsed sections of passage/chamber discernible beneath overgrowth within S part of the rath interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-086001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a naturally-occurring rise in a level pasture bordered by low ridges at N and S. Raised circular area (diam. 22m E–W) enclosed by a partially quarried-out bank (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5-1.7m). At the outer foot of the bank is a low bank (Wth 1.4m; H 0.3m) of uncertain antiquity. This follows the curve of the rath at SSW-NW but at NNW continues beyond the rath to intersect with another bank (Wth. 2.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) which curves around the rath at NW-SW at a distance of 9-10m. The intervening space between the rath and the outermost bank is subdivided by three radial field banks at NE, E and S. In the N half of the rath interior is an anomalous rectangular feature (SL012-086002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-086002 Structure
  Description

  At a rath (SL012-086001-). In the N half of the rath interior there is a subrectangular feature (dims. 7m x 4m) defined by quantities of stone. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-120001 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, with a fall of ground towards a river which lies c. 50m to E. This is one of two late 18th/early 19th vernacular houses marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but not on the 1913 edition. Sod-covered wall footings of a rectangular house (23m E-W; 4m N-S), subdivided into four rooms. The second house (SL012-120002-) is located c. 40m to W. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 31 July 2012

• SL012-120002 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, with a fall of ground towards a river which lies c. 100m to E. This is one of two late 18th/early 19th vernacular houses marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but not on the 1913 edition. Sod-covered wall footings of a rectangular two-roomed building (4m E-W; 8m N-S) are visible. The other house (SL012-120001-) is located c. 40m to E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 31 July 2012

• SL018-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a level terrace in undulating, rough pasture. Raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8-5.8m; int. H 0.35m at NW, 1m at E; ext. H 1.7 at NW, c. 2m at E). Remnants of an external fosse (Wth. 4m; ext. D 1m) are evident at NW. At the outer lip of the fosse are ephemeral traces of a possible second bank (Wth 3m; H 0.2m). In the E part of the interior there is an abrupt drop in ground level and a slope down from W to E. Densely covered in overgrowth. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-044001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the E side of a low rise in pasture. Raised subrectangular area (29.8m N-S; 25.2m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.1- 0.2m; ext. H 0.55-0.6m) which from E-S has been modified and incorporated into a modern, although now-disused, NE-SW field boundary. Other, probably later features, include the rendering of the outer face of the bank with large stones at E and a short length of free-standing bank (Wth 0.8-1.1m; H 0.3m) at SE. A break (Wth. 2m) in the bank at NE may represent an original entrance. In the level W half of the interior is the remains of a possible house (SL018-044002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-044002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  At Doonflin Lower rath (SL018-044001-). In the W half of the interior is a small rectangular raised area (dims. 7.4m N-S; 5.5m E-W) defined by a very low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 1.5m - 2.5m; int. H 0.1m), probably marking the remains of a house or a hut site. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL018-045002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In pasture, located within a field system (SL018-045003-). Remains of a rectangular two-roomed house (20m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE), with walls defined by low sod-covered banks (Wth 1.4m; H 0.5m). The house is partitioned into two rooms of roughly equal size by NW-SE wall. The SE side of the house is incorporated into a field boundary which forms part of a grid of small rectangular fields (SL018-045003-), which also enclose a ringfort/cashel (SL018-046001-) located c. 130m to S. The rectangular house and grid of fields appear to post-date the ringfort and may be post-1700 in date. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 July 2013

• SL018-045003 Field system
  Description

  On a terrace of gently undulating pasture, broken in parts by rock outcropping, bordered at E by a river ravine. This field system consist of a regular grid of rectangular fields covering an area of c. 400m N-S by c. 250m E-W. At the E and SE there is a concentration of smaller fields (c. 55-60m NE-SW and 25-35m NW-SE) defined by low sod-covered banks/walls (Wth c. 1.8-2.3m; H 0.5-0.8m), covering an area of c. 200m N-S by 125m E-W. Abutting one of the field boundaries are the wall-footings of a rectangular two-roomed house (SL018-045002-) suggesting that some of the smaller fields represent garden plots associated with a small settlement. Towards the SE there is an area of relatively recent small scale quarrying (SL018-045001-). At its S end, the field system incorporates the enclosing elements of a ringfort/cashel (SL018-046001-). To W and N the faint outlines are visible of levelled field boundaries enclosing larger rectangular fields (c. 65-75 NE-SW; c. 80-150m NW-SE) with traces of cultivation ridges. The field system and the rectangular house appear to post-date the ringfort and may be post-1700 in date. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 January 2014

• SL018-046001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• SL018-046002 Enclosure
  Description

  This record refers to the remains of a bank or wall enclosing a roughly D-shaped area, which may originally have been circular (diam. c. 85-90m). The wall/bank roughly follows the lower contours of a natural elevation. At SW–N it can be traced as a low, degraded stony rise (Wth c. 2m). At N–SE, it is reduced to a scarp (ext. H 1m at SE), and at S it is truncated by a modern road (N59). Centrally located within the enclosure, on the summit of the elevation, is a cashel (SL018-046001-). The intervening gap between the cashel and the enclosure bank/wall measures c. 20-25m and is sub-divided by transverse walls. The date of the enclosure is uncertain. It is possible that the enclosure is contemporary with the cashel and represents an outer enclosing bank of the cashel. Alternatively the enclosure may relate to the incorporation of the cashel into a later field system (SL018-045003-). It is recorded in an aerial photograph (ACP V203/ 134-3; roll 128, print 1). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 January 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Doonflin Lower, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doonflin Lower · Dún Fhlainn Íochtarach

Area

551,677 m² (55.17 ha, 136.32 acres)

Civil parish

Skreen, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Aughris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

171 people lived in 71 households in the Aughris electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownacreevy, Doonflin Upper, Farranyharpy, Grange Beg

Placenames

Doonflin Lower 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.