Flowerhill

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flowerhill, from 311 m² to 123,526 m² (12.35 ha, 30.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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

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 Flowerhill.

Recorded monuments

• SL038-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on an E-facing slope and incorporated into a field boundary. An oval area (36m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.55m) S-SW, a rising scarp WSW-NNE and a scarp with an external step (Wth 2m; H 0.7m) NNE-SE. The W portion of the interior is cut into the hillslope and the E portion is raised 2.5m to compensate somewhat for the slope though there is still a slope down to E. 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

• SL038-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A roughly oval area (64m N-S; 58m E-W) defined by remains of three earthen banks with intervening and external fosses. The inner bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.4m) is evident only W-NW, elsewhere the interior is defined by a scarp (H 0.5m). The middle bank (Wth 9m; H 0.6m) is evident SW-N and E-SE and the outer bank (Wth 6.5m; H 0.3m) is evident SW-NW with a short section also at SE. The inner fosse (Wth 7m; D 0.3m) is evident all round while the middle fosse (Wth 6.5m) is evident only SE-NW. The outer fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 1.4m) is boggy and evident SW-NW. Cultivation ridges were noted in the level interior. An ENE-WSW field boundary crosses the rath. Another field boundary (on a N-S axis) clips the edge of the outer fosse at W and another (also on a N-S axis) to E is on the line of the outer bank. 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

• SL038-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. An oval area (18.8m N-S; 14.6m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) with gaps at N and S. An external fosse (Wth 2.5; D 0.4m) is evident NE-E and an external step (Wth 2m; H 0.2m) along the outer edge of the bank SW-NW. There is a step (Wth 1m; H 1.8m) along the inside of the bank NE-SE. The E portion of the level interior is cut into the hillside and the W portion is raised 0.55m above external ground level to compensate for the hillslope. The perimeter is overgrown with bushes. 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

• SL038-026 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A subrectangular area (29m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.9m) NW-SW and by a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.45m) is evident NW-SE. The interior slopes down to SW and the surface is uneven. 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

• SL038-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (23.5m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 1.9m) SW-SE, the bank is truncated SE-SW by an E-W field boundary. An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3m) is evident SW-SE. Remains of a low counterscarp earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.2m) are evident along the outer edge of the fosse SW-W and WNW. The E portion of the interior is cut into the hillslope and the W portion is raised 0.7m above external ground level to compensate for the hillslope. The interior is split level with the W half c. 1m higher than the E half. 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 Flowerhill.

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 Flowerhill, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Flowerhill.

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.

• Flowerhill, Bunninadden6 sales

Name

Flowerhill · Cnoc an Lobhair

Area

532,921 m² (53.29 ha, 131.69 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonoghil, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Cloonoghill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 119 households in the Cloonoghill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaraw North, Ballynaraw South, Brackcloonagh, Killandy, Meelick Park

Placenames

Flowerhill 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.