Keenaghan
Townland in the civil parish of Emlaghfad, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Caonachán
- Area
- 45.8 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 249
- registered freehold, median 299 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- eRES – existing and infill residential use
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
249 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keenaghan, from 4 m² to 77,897 m² (7.79 ha, 19.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 212 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1MIX – mixed uses (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) the construction of a new slatted shed with loose area and feed passage (2) the construction of a new dry shed and all associated site works, all at,
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560049
30 Jan 2025Conditional
(1) retain various extensions to the front, rear and side of my existing dwelling house (2) retain existing sheds (3) retain revised site boundaries and all associated site works all at my Existing Dwelling House
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560030
18 Dec 2024Conditional
planning permission to retain (1) existing dwelling house at revised location on site (2) existing site entrance at revised location on site (3) revised site boundaries and all associated site works, all at Keenaghan, Ballymote, County Sligo
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460482
21 May 2024N/a
planning permission for the construction of a new slatted shed with loose area and feed passage and all associated site works, all at, Keenaghan, Ballymote, County Sligo
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460177
24 Apr 2024Conditional
To construct a domestic garage on site, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460128
12 Oct 2023N/a
development consisting of a Steeltech Garage 40x20x13,5 ft high. It will avail of existing services and be located at the rear of the existing property
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2395
9 Dec 2021Conditional
Development consisting of: (1) retention of various extensions to the front, rear and side of my existing dwelling house, (2) retention of modifications and alterations to existing elevations as previously granted under PL13879, (3) retention of existing sheds, (4) retention of the conversion of the existing domestic garage and link as previously granted under PL13879 as an extension to the existing dwelling house, (5) retention of revised site boundaries as previously granted under PL13879 and all associated site works all at my existing dwelling house - CONDITION NO. 2 COMPLIED WITH
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21485
22 Mar 2021Conditional
development consisting of (1) retention of a temporary access to the existing field and (2) construction of a single domestic dwelling with integrated garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2197
28 Jan 2021N/a
Development consisting of construction of a single domestic dwelling with integrated garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2116
20 Aug 2020Refused
development consisting of retention of independent living unit with integrated basement storage to rear of existing dwelling house with all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Sligo County Council, 20277
13 Nov 2019Conditional
development consisting of the retention of conversion of doctor's surgery to dwelling house
Retention · Sligo County Council, 19460
25 Jan 2019Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of a new storage shed and all associated site works, adjacent to existing house.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 1922
31 Jul 2018Conditional
Development consisting of retention of existing domestic garage attached to existing dwelling house.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 18310
30 Apr 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of four, two storey detached dwelling houses on existing vacant sites located adjacent to the public road - CONDITION NO. 15 COMPLIED WITH
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18153
20 Dec 2017Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a two storey dwelling house and domestic garage together with all associated site works and ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17476
18 Apr 2017Conditional
(1) demolition of rear annex, front porch and roof of existing dwelling (2) construction of new extensions to rear and side of existing dwelling and provision of new porch to front - total area approx 103msq (3) construction of new roof and provision of alterations to front windows (4) construction of additional site entrance and new garage and shed together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17147
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Keenaghan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Keenaghan.
Architectural heritage
- Mill (tread), 1830–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Group of stone buildings comprising former industrial mill complex, built c. 1845, now derelict. Various buildings gathered around central yard, three-storey with attic main building to east with, later, lower three-storey wings to north-west and south-west, two two-storey buildings to south abutting west gable of south-west wing, single-storey range to west, single-storey gatehouse to north with entrance to east of gatehouse. Pitched roof structures completely missing from main building and wings, pitched corrugated-iron roof to central building on south range, pitched slate roofs to west building on south range and to west range, hipped slate roof to gatehouse, various ashlar stone and rendered chimneystacks. Uncoursed rubble stone walling to main building and wings, ashlar limestone quoins. Unpainted roughcast walling to other buildings. Segmental-headed window openings, yellow brick dressings and arches, stone sills, windows missing. Segmental-headed door openings, yellow brick dressings and arches, doors missing. All floor structures missing from main building and wings. Concrete yard surface, rubble stone boundary walls, squared rubble gate piers with segmental tooled ashlar caps and wrought-iron gates. Rural setting to south of town, approached by lane from north, mill layd and pond still visible.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1073 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Keenaghan, Ballymote8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Keenaghan · Caonachán
- Area
- 458,474 m² (45.85 ha, 113.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Emlaghfad, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corran
- Electoral division
- Ballymote, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymote electoral division: 2,269 people in 927 households; 64% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymote, Bellanascarrow West, Carrownanty, Corhober, Rathnakelliga, Tieveboy
- Placenames
- Keenaghan 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.