Fortland

111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortland, from 131 m² to 552,735 m² (55.27 ha, 136.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 53 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Aug 2025N/a

  to construct dwelling house, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560362

• 12 Feb 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to demolish existing domestic sheds, construct new extension to existing dwelling house, together with all associated alterations and including all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460038

• 9 Nov 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the following; (1) Existing domestic garage, (2) Existing site boundaries revised from previous planning (PL Ref 08/232), together with all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 20385

• 5 Nov 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of: 1) Retention of dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area in a revised location and on a reduced site to that shown on the original planning application, PL4229/73, 2) Retention of entrance and boundary walls as constructed.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 19453

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage with onsite waste water treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18433

• 23 Jan 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of the retention of extension to dwelling house

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 1813

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Easky River 001665

Recorded monuments

• SL011-033 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Recorded on the 1837 6-inch map as 'Cromlech'. Ó Nualláin (1989, 95) states that 'This feature was shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map but not on subsequent editions. Nothing survives at the postion marked on the map but a few stones in the nearby fence, to the S, may represent the last remains of the monument.' Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-034 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL011-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight NE-facing slope in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 20m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.6m) with an external fosse (Wth 5.1m; D 0.4m). The bank is made up of earth mixed with small rubble limestone with occasional larger rocks (dims. 0.5-1m2) of quartzy conglomerate. A break (Wth 1.5m) through the bank at NW marks the position of the original entrance. The fosse is partially infilled with field clearance earth and rubble stone SE-SSE and WSW-NW. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-037 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (15m E-W; 14m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.3m) with an external fosse (Wth 3.1m; D 0.3m). The bank is absent from SE-SW and a modern NE-SW orientated mortared stone wall abuts the edge of the enclosure at S. The fosse encloses the site NE-SE and is absent elsewhere. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight ENE-facing slope in pasture. Slightly raised oval area (26m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.40m). No fosse is visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. Mature ash trees grow at regular intervals on top of the bank on all sides. Two small quarries have been dug in the interior. The first consists of an oval hollow (8m N-S; 3.8m E-W; D 0.45m) against the inner base of the bank at W. The second consists of an oval hollow (5m E-W; 2m N-W; D 0.4m) against the inner base of the bank at SE. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on slight NE-facing slope in pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m). The bank encloses the site on all sides and is eroded in most areas as a result of livestock traffic and modern field clearance activity. The original entrance to the site is not recognisable. The fosse is visible as a darker band of grass NE-SE with no visible trace elsewhere. A small modern quarry consisting of a circular depression (diam. 8m; D 0.35m) is situated on the SW side of the interior against the inner face of the bank. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL011-040 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Fortland, farmyard complex, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey limestone farm building, built c. 1850. Rectangular plan, projecting end bays to east elevation. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, mitred hips, no rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walling, stone eaves corbel course. Segmental-headed window openings, roughly-dressed stone voussoirs to arches, stone sills, some surviving painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings to north and south elevations of projecting bays, mullioned overlights, painted timber door frames, doors missing. Square-headed central carriage opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted sliding doors c. 1940. Set in farmyard with further range of limestone outbuildings c. 1850 to south-east, walled garden to east, two-storey limestone house visible to north-east, modern farm buildings c. 1980 to south. Ashlar limestone gate pillars with steel gates to south-west.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Fortland.

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.

• Fortland, Easkey13 sales

Name

Fortland · An Liosachán

Area

2,378,068 m² (237.81 ha, 587.63 acres)

Civil parish

Easky, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Easky East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Easky East electoral division: 626 people in 253 households; 72% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballycummin, Bookaun (browne), Bookaun (tottenham), Bunowna, Cloonagleavragh, Cloonagleavragh Park, Curraghnagap, Keadews, Kilmacurkan, Owenbeg, Rathmeel

Placenames

Fortland 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.