Knockaculleen

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockaculleen, from 19 m² to 112,363 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 36 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 · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Aug 2026N/a

  The development will consists of the change of use / reversion of use of Woodhill Lodge — a former gate lodge in residential use, most recently in use as a health centre and now vacant — back to residential use as 1 no. dwelling house. The proposed works include the replacement of windows, internal alterations, and all associated site development and ancillary works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660312

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  (A) material change of use, commercial to residential, (B) make alterations to existing building, closing up of rear external door opening. The development will consist of two one-bed apartments with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660093

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  the construction of a two-storey terraced building, comprising of 2 no. two-bedroom apartments and 2 no. one-bedroom apartments along with connection to public services and all ancillary works on site

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660009

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the extension to and change of use of existing vacant first floor unit to a one bedroom apartment, new access stairs, connection to public services along with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460346

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  Retention for the existing two storey building comprising of 1 no. restaurant/café and 1 no. retail unit to the ground floor, and 1 no. three bedroom apartment on the first floor with ground floor access, with existing loft store to the rear, as built, along with all ancillary works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360367

• 7 Dec 2023N/a

  Retention for the changes carried out to an existing two storey building comprising of restaurant/café and commercial unit to the ground floor and 1 no. three bedroom apartment on the first floor with existing loft store to the rear along with all ancillary works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360340

• 7 Dec 2023Conditional

  2 no. semi-detached dwelling houses, connection to public services and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360341

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of 6 no. semi-detached dwelling houses with connection to main sewer and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21413

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of the following: 1) Construction of 1 No. two storey detached dwelling and 2 No. two storey semi-detached dwellings (total of 3 No. units), 2) Construction of 3 No. new entrances onto the R297, 3) Connection to all existing services and carrying out of all ancillary site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Sligo County Council, 21366

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the change of use of our existing supermarket to include part off-licence use (gross floor area for off-licence use 22 sq.m) and associated works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20357

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of (a) erection of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, (b) making alterations to the existing front porch on the existing house, together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 18391

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1877

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  development consisting of: (i) retention of storage building (gross floor area 66 sq.m), increased site area (additional site area 255 sq.m) & relocation of site structures (previously permitted under reference no.: PL 05/1118); (ii) change of use of existing lounge bar to use as convenience shop (gross floor area for change of use 41 sq.m), customer seating area, changes to southern & eastern elevations of existing convenience shop and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 17254

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: Dunneill River 001664

Recorded monuments

• SL012-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated atop a low hill in pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 32m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a very low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 4.4m; H 0.3m) with a very shallow external fosse (Wth. 4m). Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL012-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the S-facing side of a NW-SE ridge within the garden of a modern house. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. On the 1913 edition a hachured arc representing the W half of the enclosure diam. c. 25m) is shown. There are no remains now identifiable at ground level. A property boundary appears to respect the original W-NW curve of the enclosure. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Architectural heritage

• Dromore West Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached rendered former Presbyterian church, built c. 1850, now derelict. Nave with five windows to south side and three to north, single-bay gable-fronted porch to west, two-storey wing to south-east with single-storey gable-fronted porch to south gable. Pitched slate roof, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks with yellow clay pots. Unpainted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, eaves corbel course, projecting plinth. Round-headed window openings to south elevation, stone sills, boarded-up. Square-headed window openings to north elevation, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows to nave, four-over-four to west porch. Square-headed door opening to west elevation, mullioned overlight, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Square-headed door opening to porch on south elevation, boarded up. Set back from road in overgrown grounds, rubble masonry boundary wall to south c.2000.

• Hotel, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached five-bay two-storey rendered former hotel, built c. 1875, now a private house. Chamfered gabled corner bays to either side of south elevation, two bays to east side of ground floor converted to shop c. 1980. Hipped slate roof, gabled corners with moulded verges, roll-top clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, ogee-moulded cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipe. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling. Square-headed window openings, moulded rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows. Hardwood shopfront c. 1980. Round-headed door opening, moulded rendered surround, painted timber double doors each with two raised-and-fielded panels with round-headed top panels, patterned and coloured plain-glazed overlight. Corner-sited, street fronted with lower adjoining building to east, single-storey flat-roofed coffee shop to west, two-storey pitched-roof rubble-stone outbuilding to rear, high rubble stone boundary wall to west.

• Woodhill House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey with attic rendered house, built c. 1850. Rectangular main block with forward-thrusting gabled end bays, returning as north-east and north-west wings, and central entrance bay. Two-storey gabled projection to west elevation, canted bay window to north end of east elevation. Pitched slate roof, painted smooth-rendered flat-capped chimneystacks, extruded aluminium profiled gutters c. 1990 on eaves corbel course, cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth-rendered walling, profiled verge copings to south and west gables on slender kneelers on profiled corbels with square caps at apexes, chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings, hood-moulds with decorative stops to end bays, chamfered reveals, painted moulded sloping sills, painted small-paned transomed and mullioned timber sash windows to south and east elevations, six-over-six sash windows to north elevations. Square-headed door opening, hood-mould with decorative stops, chamfered reveals, glazed spandrels over painted pointed-arched timber double doors each with six moulded panels, single bull-nose stone step to door. Various one- and two-storey pitched roof rubble stone outbuildings to north arranged around two yards. Rubble stone boundary walls enclosing walled garden and extending to neighbouring mill to north-east. Set in extensive grounds, accessed by avenue from south.

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 10 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 Knockaculleen.

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

Name

Knockaculleen · Cnoc an Choillín

Area

916,755 m² (91.68 ha, 226.54 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Buncrowey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Buncrowey electoral division: 294 people in 123 households; 72% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygilcash, Cloonascoffagh, Dromore, Dunneill, Lecarrow, Portaghbradagh

Placenames

Knockaculleen 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.