Doonycoy
Doonycoy is a townland in the civil parish of Templeboy, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Dún Uí Chobhthaigh.
- Area
- 70 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 5,114 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonycoy, from 39 m² to 109,443 m² (10.94 ha, 27.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Doonycoy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Aug 2026N/a
1): Decommision existing septic tank system and to install new on site waste water treatment system to EPA 2021 standards. 2): Retain revised site boundaries. 3): Retain location of as constructed dwellinghouse on site. 4): Retain domestic garage constructed on site
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660351
3 Jul 2026N/a
Install new on site waste water treatment system to EPA 2021 standards and to revise site boundaries at Doonycoy, Templeboy, Co Sligo, F91 X9T8. Previous grant of planning permission PL97/117 refers
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660274
31 Mar 2022Conditional
development consisting of retention for the dwelling as constructed on site, previously granted permission under PL09/273
Retention · Sligo County Council, 22114
3 Jun 2021Conditional
Development consisting of the retention of proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area as constructed on site and for minor revisions to site boundaries to those previously granted planning permission under planning reference PL 09/273 and PL 18/206 together with all associated site works and connection into existing services
Retention · Sligo County Council, 21210
25 May 2018Conditional
Development consisting of permission for revised site boundaries to those previously granted planning permission under planning reference PL 09/273 together with minor amendments to the entrance gate location and the percolation area layout including all associated site works connection into existing services.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 18206
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonycoy.
Recorded monuments
- SL012-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a low rise in lowlying pasture, c. 50m S of a rocky shoreline. Raised circular area (diam. 46.7m NW-SE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank (Wth. 4.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H, at NW) which is best preserved on the N half of the rath. Original entrance may have been at W where there is a wide break (Wth. 3.4m) in the bank, which is partially blocked by a modern N-S field boundary. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL012-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a rise in pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 1.1m, at E). The interior slopes down from SW to NE. The rath is obscured by dense overgrowth. There is a disused quarry pit immediately to N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonycoy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Doonycoy, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonycoy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Doonycoy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Doonycoy · Dún Uí Chobhthaigh
- Area
- 699,944 m² (69.99 ha, 172.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Templeboy North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkill, Carrowmacrory, Cartron, Doonmadden, Lugdoon, Rathurlisk
- Placenames
- Doonycoy 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.