Newtowncliffony

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtowncliffony, from 5 m² to 99,852 m² (9.99 ha, 24.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Newtowncliffony 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.

• 4 May 2017Refused

  development consisting of: (1) the change of use from existing industrial unit to residential dwelling (2) alterations to existing facades for provision of windows and doors (3) provision of new roof to existing structure and (4) provision of rear extension

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 17164

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Bunduff Lough and Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore SAC 000625
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bunduff Lough And Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore 000625

Recorded monuments

• SL002-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in rough pasture. Slightly dished circular area (diam. 23.6m) enclosed by a much eroded bank of earth and stone (Wth. 1.5m; H 0.1m - 1m) which has been modified and incorporated into the the field boundary from SSW-SW-WSW. No fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 07 February 2013

• SL002-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a N-facing slope in pasture overlooking the sea. Raised circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a badly eroded bank of earth and stone ((Wth. 0.6m; int. H 1m). There are traces of an external fosse on the N side. The enclosing elements have been incorporated into the field boundary from WNW-NW-NNW. The monument is divided into two unequal portions by a NE-SW field boundary. Only the outline of the circuit of the much smaller portion, NE of this, is now identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 08 March 2013

• SL002-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In N-sloping pasture with excellent views. Originally circular area enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (int. H 0.4m - 0.6m; int. H 1m). There is no evidence for a fosse. The rath is divided into unequal portions by a NW-SE field boundary. The larger portion, SW of this has been removed. The smaller portion (max. dim. 19m) is overgrown with scrub. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 08 March 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Newtowncliffony.

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

Name

Newtowncliffony · Baile Úr Chliafuine

Area

411,123 m² (41.11 ha, 101.59 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Cliffony South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cliffony South electoral division: 577 people in 216 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincastle, Ballynabrock, Edenreagh, Mullaghmore West

Placenames

Newtowncliffony 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.