Fetherneen

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fetherneen, from 32 m² to 193,688 m² (19.37 ha, 47.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Fetherneen 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.

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  development consisting of (1) retention of existing domestic shed (2) change of use of existing domestic shed to new cookery school and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21222

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 Fetherneen.

Recorded monuments

• SL025-165002 Burnt mound
  Description

  On the E bank of a stream. A thin layer (L c. 8m; T 0.015m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil is visible in section in the stream bank at a depth of 0.2m below the sod. The burnt material overlies a layer of cream-coloured clay. There is a second burnt spread (SL025-165003-) c. 20m to S and a fulacht fia (SL025-165001-) c. 30m to NNW. 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

• SL025-165003 Burnt mound
  Description

  On the E bank of a stream. A thin layer (L c. 3m; T 0.015m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil is visible in section in the stream bank at a depth of 0.2m. There is a second burnt spread (SL025-165002-) c. 20m to N and a fulacht fia (SL025-165001-) c. 50m to NNW. 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 Fetherneen.

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 Fetherneen, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_989 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fetherneen · Eadarnín

Area

631,497 m² (63.15 ha, 156.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilvarnet, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Temple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

394 people lived in 132 households in the Temple electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurray, Rathgran, Rathnarrow (Brett), Rockfinlough

Placenames

Fetherneen 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.