Halfquarter

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Halfquarter, from 22 m² to 117,205 m² (11.72 ha, 28.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to construct dwelling house, construct domestic garage, install effluent treatment system with percolation area and to carry out all associated ancillary site works at Abbeytown Td., Ballisodare, Co. Sligo - CONDITION NO. 12 COMPLIED WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460098

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of the erection of an agricultural machinery storage shed and carry out all ancillary site works (this site is adjacent to the Thatch Cottage that is listed as RPS 226 on the Sligo record of protected structures 2011--2017)

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19167

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 Halfquarter.

Recorded monuments

• SL020-155 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a slight rise. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) and on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as oval (c. 30m N-S; c. 35m E-W) with a break in the bank at W. According to local information, it was levelled in 1977 during land reclamation. 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

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820. Slightly projecting lean-to entrance porch to south (front) elevation. Straw-thatched roof, raised ridge, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks. Painted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door c. 1960, limestone step. Set back slightly from road, smooth-rendered boundary wall, wrought-iron hooped entrance gate, further set of wrought-iron hooped gates on painted cut-stone piers to south-west giving access to farmyard with range of single-storey outbuildings to west with pitched and lean-to corrugated iron-sheeted roofs and painted rubble stone walls.

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-bay single-storey rendered church, built c. 1890. Cruciform plan, three-bay nave, single-bay transepts, single-bay chancel, gabled porch to north elevation of nave with flat-roofed boiler house to west, vestry to north elevation of chancel. Pitched slate roof, crested clay ridge tiles, profiled metal gutters, dressed stone verges with gabled kneelers, ashlar limestone corbelled bell-cote to apex of west gable, cylindrical ashlar limestone chimney on square base to north side of chancel, iron cross to north and south transept gables, carved stone cross to chancel gable. Painted smooth-rendered walling, block-and-start limestone quoins, painted smooth-rendered plinth. Lancet window openings to nave, transepts and south chancel, geometrical tracery to east window with hood mould over, circular window over west door, dressed limestone surrounds and sills, stained glass leaded-light windows. Pointed-arch door opening to west gable, dressed limestone surround, hardwood timber vertically-sheeted double doors. Square-headed door opening to north porch, hardwood timber vertically-sheeted double doors. Interior with splayed panelled ceiling, painted plaster walling, painted timber panelled dado, paired pointed arches to transepts and pointed arch to chancel, all carried on polished granite columns, timber balcony with arcaded balustrade. Located on crossroads, bitmac car park, low smooth-rendered boundary wall.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1034 (ZIP).

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

Name

Halfquarter · An Leithcheathrú

Area

406,363 m² (40.64 ha, 100.41 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysadare, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Ballysadare East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysadare East electoral division: 1,387 people in 568 households; 77% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeytown, Corhawnagh, Streamstown

Placenames

Halfquarter 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.