Heapstown

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Heapstown, from 449 m² to 151,488 m² (15.15 ha, 37.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Heapstown 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.

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of an agricultural shed together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2378

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 Heapstown.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-128 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  In level pasture, 750m N of Lough Arrow. This passage tomb is a National Monument (No. 152) in state ownership. It is a massive round cairn (diam. 62m N-S, 60m E-W; H c. 6m) retained by a kerb of substantial kerbstones. Twenty-three are exposed from S around to NW and seven more are visible from N around to SE. Considerable quarrying has taken place along the perimeter of the site. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 94). A possible rath (SL034-128----) lies c. 90m to NE. 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 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL034-129 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SSW-facing slope. An oval area (50m E-W; 34m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.8m) and an external boggy fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.5m). The interior slopes down to S and is crossed by a low E-W field boundary. Indicated only on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a large oval field with coniferous trees planted within it. 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

• SL034-254 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Located c. 90m SE of Heapstown cairn (SL034-128----) and indicated as out-cropping rock on the OS 6-inch map. It comprises a large bouder (dims. 2.75m N-S; 2.75 E-W; T 1.30m). Two support stones, apparently set, are visible on the S and other stones and material support it on the N. The extant remains are hardly sufficient to permit classification as a megalithic structure with certainty and possibility that this may be a natural feature cannot be excluded. It has affinities with the possible boulder-burial at Achonry (SL032-189----). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 17 June 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Heapstown.

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 Heapstown, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Heapstown · Baile an Chairn

Area

825,807 m² (82.58 ha, 204.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lakeview, the unit of the census

Census 2022

511 people lived in 185 households in the Lakeview electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronroe, Corlisheen, Derry More, Doonsheheen, Killadoon

Placenames

Heapstown 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.