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

Townland in the civil parish of Templeboy, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Dún Madáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 942,421 m² (94.24 ha, 232.88 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,896 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templeboy, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/templeboy.md
- Barony: Tireragh
- Electoral division: Templeboy North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 314 people lived in 112 households in the Templeboy North electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44935
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200624
- Centre: latitude 54.252592, longitude -8.806605 (WGS 84)

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

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonmadden, from 113 m² to 150,702 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 735826: 150,702 m² (15.07 ha, 37.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/735826.md
- Parcel 769792: 64,893 m² (6.49 ha, 16.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769792.md
- Parcel 739742: 55,283 m² (5.53 ha, 13.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739742.md
- Parcel 740284: 42,166 m² (4.22 ha, 10.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740284.md
- Parcel 727683: 41,613 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/727683.md
- Parcel 729695: 41,246 m² (4.12 ha, 10.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/729695.md
- Parcel 727408: 36,328 m² (3.63 ha, 8.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/727408.md
- Parcel 764746: 31,370 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/764746.md
- Parcel 773913: 31,291 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/773913.md
- Parcel 739741: 30,726 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739741.md
- Parcel 739740: 27,949 m² (2.79 ha, 6.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739740.md
- Parcel 774269: 26,799 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774269.md
- Parcel 769869: 26,774 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769869.md
- Parcel 739624: 26,276 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739624.md
- Parcel 776855: 24,514 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/776855.md
- Parcel 3381332: 24,222 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3381332.md
- Parcel 765937: 22,480 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/765937.md
- Parcel 769791: 21,536 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769791.md
- Parcel 769868: 19,953 m² (2 ha, 4.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769868.md
- Parcel 769867: 19,627 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769867.md
- Parcel 732760: 17,145 m² (1.71 ha, 4.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732760.md
- Parcel 739626: 12,061 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739626.md
- Parcel 732895: 10,931 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732895.md
- Parcel 739737: 9,916 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739737.md
- Parcel 763542: 8,723 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763542.md
- Parcel 729697: 7,732 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/729697.md
- Parcel 767544: 7,195 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/767544.md
- Parcel 739735: 6,191 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739735.md
- Parcel 769790: 5,896 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769790.md
- Parcel 4974378: 5,206 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4974378.md
- Parcel 769789: 5,083 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/769789.md
- Parcel 732877: 4,683 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732877.md
- Parcel 772382: 4,606 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/772382.md
- Parcel 2954480: 4,422 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2954480.md
- Parcel 776889: 3,303 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/776889.md
- Parcel 3071052: 3,213 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3071052.md
- Parcel 750373: 3,082 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/750373.md
- Parcel 754017: 3,078 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/754017.md
- Parcel 739623: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/739623.md
- Parcel 3381333: 2,322 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3381333.md
- Parcel 3046926: 2,102 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3046926.md
- Parcel 729696: 2,022 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/729696.md
- Parcel 772866: 1,914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/772866.md
- Parcel 757562: 1,900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/757562.md
- Parcel 752832: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/752832.md
- Parcel 4885691: 1,832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4885691.md
- Parcel 772166: 1,506 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/772166.md
- Parcel 773623: 1,206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/773623.md
- Parcel 4773129: 1,171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4773129.md
- Parcel 758331: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/758331.md
- Parcel 776071: 768 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/776071.md
- Parcel 3185047: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3185047.md
- Parcel 739736: 536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/739736.md
- Parcel 3004852: 290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3004852.md
- Parcel 771400: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/771400.md
- Parcel 776076: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/776076.md
- Parcel 739738: 113 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/739738.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Doonmadden 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 31 Mar 2026, Sligo County Council 2660117: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (1): Demolish existing single storey cottage (2): Construct new replacement dwellinghouse (3): Decommission existing septic tank and upgrade to proprietary waste water treatment system to EPA code of practice standards (4): Carry out all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660117/0
- 31 Jul 2025, Sligo County Council 2560320: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct dwelling house, construct domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560320/0
- 6 Apr 2020, Sligo County Council 20108: Conditional. Permission. development consisting of construction of a 5 bay slatted shed with a loose area and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/20108/0

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## 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 Doonmadden.

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

- SL012-061: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-061----. Situated on a low N-S ridge in pasture. Subrectangular raised area (26.8m N-S; 19.5m E-W) enclosed at N, E and S by traces of a bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H 0.6m) of earth and stone and defined at W by a modern N-S field boundary. Inside the bank at E is a wide, shallow depression (Wth. 3m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL012-062: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-062----. Situated on a low rise on a N-S ridge. Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a partly levelled bank (Wth. 6.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.5m) of earth and stone. A break in bank (Wth. c. 3m) at E may represent the original entrance. The site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a modern N-S field boundary. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL012-063: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL012-063----. Situated on a naturally-occurring rise in an area of undulating pasture, with a gentle fall of ground towards a stream c. 40m to E. Raised circular area (24.2m NW-SE; 22.3m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m, at NW) of earth and stone which is upstanding only at W and NW. Elsewhere the bank has been reduced to a scarp (ext. H 1.7m at SE). At the outer foot of the bank at W are traces of a possible fosse (Wth. c. 3.5m). Original entrance not reocgnisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 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 Doonmadden.

## 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 Doonmadden, 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 Doonmadden.
- 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/doonmadden.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonmadden.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonmadden.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Doonmadden 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)

- Ballygreighan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballygreighan.md
- Doonycoy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonycoy.md
- Rathglass: https://everytownland.com/sligo/rathglass-201095.md
- Rathurlisk: https://everytownland.com/sligo/rathurlisk.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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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

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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