Eskragh

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eskragh, from 44 m² to 224,897 m² (22.49 ha, 55.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 55 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 Eskragh 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.

• 15 May 2020Conditional

  development consisting of retention for the demolition of the original dwelling house and construction of the new dwelling house, with amendments to the elevations (the development of single storey extension to the rear of the original cottage is approved as per Planning Ref No. 18131)

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 20147

• 27 Mar 2020N/a

  Development consisting of the retention for the demolition of the original dwelling house and construction of the new dwelling house, with amendments to all elevations (the development of single storey extension to the rear of the original cottage is approved as per Planing Ref No 18131)

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2099

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of single storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage, & domestic garage to side, new proprietary effluent treatment system, revised entrance & access with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18131

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 Eskragh.

Recorded monuments

• SL037-074001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low rise. A slightly raised oval area (38m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.95m) with a flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 0.3m) NE-N. An E-W field boundary crosses the fosse at S. The edges of the rath are covered with overgrowth. There is a souterrain (SL037-074002-) inside the bank at NW. Two parallel N-S field boundaries extend to N from the NE edge of the rath. Another rath (SL037-075----) lies c. 100m to ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL037-074002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL037-074001-), now entered through a small opening on the inside of the bank of the rath at NW. A rectangular stone-built chamber (7m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE; H 1.7m) with corbelled walls and a lintelled roof. The chamber is partially filled with stones at the NE end and has a small annexe (Wth 0.4m) extending from its W corner. A silted-up creepway (Wth 0.55m; L 4m) is evident in the SE wall. At the SE end it turns at right angles towards NE, leading to possible second chamber or entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL037-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low rise. A slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 36.2m N-S; 32.6m to E) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.4m). An external flat-bottomed boggy fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.9m) is evident SSE-NE. Bank linear along W and N sides where field boundaries (on N-S and E-W axes) are adjacent to W and N. Other field boundaries extend from the rath to NE, E, SE and SW. The edge of the rath is covered with overgrowth. A rath (SL037-074001-) lies c. 100m to WNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL037-076001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low rise. A raised oval area (diam. 26.7m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by remains of a earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m) W-WNW and N-NNE and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.45m) is evident W-NW and NE-E. There is a possible souterrain (SL037-076002-) in the W half of the interior. Some hazel and hawthorn trees grow on the rath. There is a quarry hole to NE and an E-W field boundary to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL037-076002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (SL037-076001-). According to local information, there is a tradition of a 'cave' in the W half of the interior of the rath but there are now no visible remains of it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Eskragh.

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

Name

Eskragh · Na hEiscreacha

Area

2,289,720 m² (228.97 ha, 565.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Banada, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Banada electoral division: 610 people in 238 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banada, Carrownagappul, Cashel South, Clooningan, Rue, Tullanaglug, Tullymoy

Placenames

Eskragh 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.