# Murhy, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Toomour, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo; in Irish Murthaigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,208,589 m² (120.86 ha, 298.65 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 52,765 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Toomour, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/toomour.md
- Barony: Corran
- Electoral division: Toomour, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 227 people lived in 95 households in the Toomour electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44733
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 201046
- Centre: latitude 54.052948, longitude -8.435329 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murhy, from 318 m² to 572,239 m² (57.22 ha, 141.4 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 734330: 572,239 m² (57.22 ha, 141.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/734330.md
- Parcel 780095: 119,245 m² (11.92 ha, 29.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780095.md
- Parcel 761657: 113,835 m² (11.38 ha, 28.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761657.md
- Parcel 728325: 97,233 m² (9.72 ha, 24.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/728325.md
- Parcel 780202: 86,744 m² (8.67 ha, 21.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780202.md
- Parcel 780487: 72,908 m² (7.29 ha, 18.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780487.md
- Parcel 761671: 57,869 m² (5.79 ha, 14.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/761671.md
- Parcel 728326: 52,765 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/728326.md
- Parcel 756780: 28,634 m² (2.86 ha, 7.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/756780.md
- Parcel 751141: 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/751141.md
- Parcel 760912: 2,074 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/760912.md
- Parcel 750449: 1,463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/750449.md
- Parcel 751905: 658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/751905.md
- Parcel 771442: 493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/771442.md
- Parcel 758880: 318 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/758880.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Murhy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 22 Dec 2025, Sligo County Council 2560555: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance by boundary wall and install an on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560555/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Bricklieve Mountains and Keishcorran SAC, site code 001656, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001656
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bricklieve Mountains & Keishcorran, site code 001656

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL040-008: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-008----. (In the Carrowkeel-Kesh Corann passage tomb cemetery). On the summit of Kesh Corann with a magnificent outlook in all directions. Within and close to the N edge of a hilltop enclosure (SL040-009---). This is a circular cairn (diam. 26m; H c. 4-5m) at the top of which there is a small pile of stones, apparently a 19th-century OS trigonometrical station. A hole (4m x 3m; D 0.5m) has been dug into the E slope of the cairn and there is a larger hole extending from the summit downslope to the ENE. The cairn stands on what appears to be a prepared platform (diam. c. 35m), the perimeter of which is almost 5m beyond the base of the cairn. The platform is now substantially grass-grown and in places, especially at the N, peat-grown. It is c. 0.8m high around the greater part of the perimeter but reaches 2m high at the N over falling ground. Kerbstones are intermittently visible along or just inside the platform perimeter, in particular on the southern side. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 84) 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)
- SL040-009: Hilltop enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-009----. In heather-covered blanket bog at the N end of a level plateau on top of Kesh Corann. A large pear-shaped area (c. 170m N-S; c. 170m E-W) defined by a low stony wall (Wth 2.5m; H 0.4m) engulfed in blanket bog. The wall can be traced as a slight rise SW-SE and short sections of it are exposed at NW revealing a jumble of stones and slabs. The wall coincides with a natural break of slope NNW-E, marking the N edge of the plateau. At N, it tops a vertical scarp of exposed bedrock (H 1.7m). The wall is difficult to trace SE-SW and it appears that portions of it may be covered in bog. A possible passage tomb (SL040-008----) lies within and close to the N end of this hilltop enclosure. Condit, Gibbons and Timoney (1991, 62) noted that while this enclosure follows the contour of the limestone terrace on the hill it 'does not seem to exploit the natural defenses of the hill'. 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
- SL040-062: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-062----. On the flat-topped spur of Kesh Corann Hill. An oval cairn (8.3m x 7.3m; H 1.1m). Stones have been removed from the centre of the cairn leaving a hollow (7.8m x 1.2m) in which a limestone outcrop is visible. 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
- SL040-076: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-076----. In pasture, on a slight platform with higher ground on all sides. A raised circular area (int. diam. 20.3m x 20.2m) enclosed by a ruinous sod-covered inner stone wall (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.9m). At N, the wall turns outwards to form an entrance passage (L 7.5m; Wth 2.1m) with remains of internal stone facing and is approached by a ramp. The remains of an outer stone wall (Wth 2.25m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.65m) are evident along the W arc, c. 4.5m outside the base of the inner wall, and possibly incorporated into a field boundary along the E arc. Large quantities of stone from the wall have tumbled downslope from the platform. 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
- SL040-077: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-077----. Listed in the SMR (1989) and classified as 'Enclosure Possible'. Depicted on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Upon inspection in 1993 no remains of an enclosure was identified. A re-examination of the 1838 map suggests that what is indicated here is a sand-pit or quarry. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 22 November 2011
- SL040-193: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-193----. In pasture, on the summit of a drumlin. A partially sod-covered conical cairn (diam. 5.2m x 5.7m; H 1m) of rubble containing some large stones. 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
- SL040-234: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-234----. On a slight terrace on the S slope of Kesh Corann and commanding an extensive outlook to the S. This is a W-facing gallery (L 6m) which decreases in height to the E. There is a jamb-like stone at the W end of the gallery. This articulates with the N side of the structure which is now represented by at least six partly concealed orthostats. A low backstone closes the E end of the gallery. Its S side is concealed by a spread of stones and may have collapsed. A low orthostat outside the N end of the backstone may be a buttress-stone. Some 1.5m S of the backstone there are two low stones. These seem to be the remains of an outer wall. There are some remains of mound around the S half of the structure. 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 a plan of the monument (surveyed 2000). Date of upload: 27 May 2013

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Murhy, 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 Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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/murhy.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/murhy.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/murhy.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Murhy 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)

- Cloonagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cloonagh-200439.md
- Cross: https://everytownland.com/sligo/cross.md
- Drumnagranshy: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumnagranshy.md
- Fallougher: https://everytownland.com/sligo/fallougher.md
- Greenan: https://everytownland.com/sligo/greenan.md
- Knockoconor: https://everytownland.com/sligo/knockoconor.md
- Tonaponra: https://everytownland.com/sligo/tonaponra.md
- Toomour: https://everytownland.com/sligo/toomour.md
- Treanmore: https://everytownland.com/sligo/treanmore-201235.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.

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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.

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