# Halfquarter, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballysadare, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Leithcheathrú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 406,363 m² (40.64 ha, 100.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,672 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 GB – green belt, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballysadare, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/ballysadare.md - Barony: Leyny - Electoral division: Ballysadare East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45082 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200777 - Centre: latitude 54.209292, longitude -8.539573 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Halfquarter, from 22 m² to 117,205 m² (11.72 ha, 28.96 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 775271: 117,205 m² (11.72 ha, 28.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/775271.md - Parcel 771591: 107,415 m² (10.74 ha, 26.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771591.md - Parcel 734151: 65,366 m² (6.54 ha, 16.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734151.md - Parcel 771930: 47,278 m² (4.73 ha, 11.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771930.md - Parcel 780727: 26,667 m² (2.67 ha, 6.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780727.md - Parcel 742291: 4,329 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742291.md - Parcel 732581: 3,262 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732581.md - Parcel 746694: 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/746694.md - Parcel 752796: 3,129 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752796.md - Parcel 731639: 3,007 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/731639.md - Parcel 778447: 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/778447.md - Parcel 744023: 2,761 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/744023.md - Parcel 748001: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/748001.md - Parcel 732068: 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732068.md - Parcel 3120614: 2,429 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3120614.md - Parcel 732971: 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/732971.md - Parcel 758927: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/758927.md - Parcel 760315: 2,156 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760315.md - Parcel 745314: 1,993 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/745314.md - Parcel 730778: 1,861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/730778.md - Parcel 751861: 1,002 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/751861.md - Parcel 753197: 683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/753197.md - Parcel 758187: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/758187.md - Parcel 2918069: 22 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2918069.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 GB – 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: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 2 Apr 2024, Sligo County Council 2460098: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460098/0 - 29 Apr 2019, Sligo County Council 19167: Conditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/19167/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Halfquarter. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL020-155: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL020-155----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 32402015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL®no=32402015. 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, registry number 32402016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL®no=32402016. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1034.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/halfquarter-200777.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/halfquarter-200777.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/halfquarter-200777.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Halfquarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbeytown: https://everytownland.com/sligo/abbeytown.md - Corhawnagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/corhawnagh.md - Streamstown: https://everytownland.com/sligo/streamstown-201188.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/halfquarter-200777 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/halfquarter-200777