Mount Town

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mount Town, from 90 m² to 497,993 m² (49.8 ha, 123.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Mount Town 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.

• 25 Mar 2022Conditional

  development consisting of; The Conversion of an existing farm outhouse building to a 1 bedroom Studio dwelling and the diversion of the existing sewage line to a new domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area to EPA standards

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22104

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 Mount Town.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-064 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In rough undulating pasture, on the N side of a ridge. Described during a previous inspection in 1992 as the remains of a circular flat-topped earthen mound (diam. 7m; H 1.2m) with a quarry hole (Wth 12m) cut into the S edge (SMR (1989) file). Now levelled and not visible at ground level. The quarry to S is now disused. A possible cairn (SL034-065----) lies c. 100m to SSW. 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

• SL034-065 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the N side of a ridge and on the W side of a road. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular pile of stones (diam. c. 40m), c. 100m SSW of a mound barrow (SL034-064----). There are no visible remains of the cairn. According to local information, the level of the field was previously c. 1.5m higher but was subsequently lowered due to quarrying and large boulders encountered during the quarrying are piled against the adjacent field boundary. 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

• SL034-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a slight NE-facing slope and c. 40m SW of the Feorish River. A raised circular area (20m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) of earth and stone is evident all round and is faced internally and externally in many places either with single upright limestone slabs (up to 1.2m square) or un-mortared limestone blocks in two to three courses. The inner bank is broken at SSE (Wth 0.9m), S (Wth 1m), WNW (Wth 0.8m) and NNW (Wth. 0.9m). The intervening fosse (Wth 4m at base) is evident NW-N and E-SE. The outer bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.45m) is earthen and evident only E-SE, at WNW and NNW-N. The interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope and is level dry and clear of overgrowth. There is a field clearance cairn (diam. 2m; H 0.3m) to E of the centre. 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

• SL034-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of the W side of a ridge. A circular area (18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by an eroded earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.9m) with a revetment of stones evident intermittently along the base of the internal face of the bank. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary S-W. A band of rushes (Wth. c. 2m) NW-ESE probably indicates the line of a silted-up external fosse. 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

• SL034-242 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the S-facing slope of a ridge. A D-shaped area (dims. 19m NW-SE) with a straight NW side (L 20m NE-SW) terraced into the hillslope, the SW portion raised 1.9m above outer ground level and the NE portion cut into the upslope in two steps c. 2.2m below ground level. A short section of earthen bank (L 6m; Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) is evident at S. A linear NE-SW field boundary defines the straight side. No visible remains of the enclosure on the NW side of the field boundary. Locally known as 'Lisheen'. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mount Town, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mount Town · Cnoc an Dailtín

Area

1,559,780 m² (155.98 ha, 385.43 acres)

Civil parish

Killadoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Killadoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 104 households in the Killadoon electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphull, Cabragh, Coollemoneen, Rannatruffaun East, Rannatruffaun West, Rathmulpatrick, Ummeryroe

Placenames

Mount Town 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.