# Maghera, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Emlaghfad, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Marlaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 231,843 m² (23.18 ha, 57.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,291 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 eRES – existing and infill residential use, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Emlaghfad, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/emlaghfad.md - Barony: Corran - Electoral division: Ballymote, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% 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/45036 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200994 - Centre: latitude 54.082987, longitude -8.523905 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 115 m² to 160,958 m² (16.1 ha, 39.77 acres); 38 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 778947: 160,958 m² (16.1 ha, 39.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/778947.md - Parcel 778948: 22,403 m² (2.24 ha, 5.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/778948.md - Parcel 740416: 18,973 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/740416.md - Parcel 4770959: 18,271 m² (1.83 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4770959.md - Parcel 737794: 3,129 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737794.md - Parcel 734335: 1,454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/734335.md - Parcel 6136732: 922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6136732.md - Parcel 6136711: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6136711.md - Parcel 6136750: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6136750.md - Parcel 5704944: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5704944.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 27 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - G3 GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - R1 nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - S3 CF – community facilities (Community facilities): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - C2.1 BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/ - G1 OS – open space (Open space, park): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo; 0 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. - 19 Nov 2025, Sligo County Council 2560484: Conditional. Permission. to construct 74 no. houses and associated site works. The development will consist of the construction of; • 7 no. one bedroom single storey dwellings, • 15 no. two bedroom 2 storey terraced dwellings, • 38 no. three bedroom 2 storey semi-detached dwellings, • 14 no. four bedroom 2 storey semi-detached dwellings. The proposed development will also include for; • Provision of communal open space areas to include for natural play spaces and kick about areas, • Private open spaces, roads & footpaths, public lighting, soft and hard landscaping and revised boundary treatments. • Proposed new vehicular and pedestrian entrance along the R296 (Tubbercurry road), to include for provision of footpath and road setback along the southern edge of the R296, and a pedestrian crossing to the northern edge of the R296, to provide for enhanced connectivity. • 157 no. car parking spaces (including e-charging points) • Provision for ESB Substation. • Connection to public watermain, surface water drainage, together with all associated site works and services. • Connection to the public sewer along the R296 (Tubbercurry road) and provision of on-site pumping station. • Connection to existing mains water infrastructure and on site surface water drainage works, to serve the development, together with all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560484/0 - 14 Jan 2022, Sligo County Council 2213: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Development consisting of the construction of 58 No. residential units (10 No. 1 bed, 20 No. 2 bed, 18 No. 3 bed & 10 No. 4 bed) and all associated site and external works including the widening of the existing site entrance serving an existing adjacent dwelling house (PL Ref. 2451/70) and amendments to the boundaries of that dwelling's site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2213/0 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 Maghera. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maghera. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maghera. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Maghera, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1039, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1039.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/maghera.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/maghera.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/maghera.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Maghera 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) - Ballybrennan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballybrennan.md - Carrigeenmore: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrigeenmore.md - Carrownanty: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrownanty.md - Tieveboy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/tieveboy.md - Woodfield: https://everytownland.com/sligo/woodfield-201268.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/maghera - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/maghera