# Doonflin Lower, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Skreen, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Dún Fhlainn Íochtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 551,677 m² (55.17 ha, 136.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Skreen, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/skreen.md
- Barony: Tireragh
- Electoral division: Aughris, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44738
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200619
- Centre: latitude 54.241726, longitude -8.761532 (WGS 84)

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

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonflin Lower, from 32 m² to 237,629 m² (23.76 ha, 58.72 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 4934715: 237,629 m² (23.76 ha, 58.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934715.md
- Parcel 742228: 173,808 m² (17.38 ha, 42.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742228.md
- Parcel 743964: 74,877 m² (7.49 ha, 18.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/743964.md
- Parcel 730142: 7,778 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/730142.md
- Parcel 5021741: 6,162 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5021741.md
- Parcel 4934717: 4,367 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934717.md
- Parcel 757773: 3,496 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/757773.md
- Parcel 5015107: 2,670 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5015107.md
- Parcel 5248522: 2,463 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5248522.md
- Parcel 753019: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/753019.md
- Parcel 4963046: 2,309 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4963046.md
- Parcel 5014735: 2,169 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5014735.md
- Parcel 4838893: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4838893.md
- Parcel 734048: 1,855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/734048.md
- Parcel 4950743: 1,644 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950743.md
- Parcel 5008794: 1,075 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5008794.md
- Parcel 5027354: 720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5027354.md
- Parcel 771669: 488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/771669.md
- Parcel 769289: 481 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/769289.md
- Parcel 4954628: 381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4954628.md
- Parcel 727642: 213 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/727642.md
- Parcel 5362658: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5362658.md
- Parcel 4955936: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4955936.md
- Parcel 5362657: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5362657.md
- Parcel 5014738: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5014738.md

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

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.

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

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonflin Lower.

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

- SL012-083001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-083001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-083002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-086001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-086002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-120001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-120002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-043----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-044001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-044002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-045002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-045003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-046001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL018-046002-. 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

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 Doonflin Lower.

## 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 Doonflin Lower, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/doonflin-lower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonflin-lower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonflin-lower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

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

- Carrownacreevy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrownacreevy-200324.md
- Doonflin Upper: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonflin-upper.md
- Farranyharpy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/farranyharpy.md
- Grange Beg: https://everytownland.com/sligo/grange-beg.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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