Oghambaun

184 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oghambaun, from 26 m² to 203,416 m² (20.34 ha, 50.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 113 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 · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4SLR - Strategic Land Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
  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.

• 3 Dec 2025N/a

  demolition of existing buildings and the construction of 15 No. houses with connection to public services and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560503

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  Construction of 35 No Dwellings, Consisting of 6 No Semi-Detached Four Bedroom Units, 22 No Semi- Detached Three Bedroom Units, 5 No Semi-Detached Two Bedroom Units and 2 No Semi-Detached One Bedroom Units with Connection to Services And Associated Site Development Works (Completion of Development Granted Permission under P.04/1411)

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560468

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) dwelling house as constructed (2) site entrance and site boundaries, which all differ to plans granted under PL93/19021. Planning permission for (1) single storey flat roof porch extension to front elevation (2) extension of rear elevated terrace with garden store beneath terrace (3) alterations to all elevations (4) upgrade existing foul wastewater treatment system (5) external domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460129

• 14 Dec 2018Conditional

  Development consisiting of construction of a dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18494

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 Oghambaun.

Recorded monuments

• SL038-034 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 25m) enclosed by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 4.5m; H 0.6m). The interior is strewn with stones and covered with overgrowth. There is a quarry to SW. 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

• SL038-035001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a rath (SL038-035003-). A lintelled opening at the SSW end of a depression (c. 2.5m NNE-SSW; D 1m) leads to two lintelled stone-lined passages linked by a creepway. Passage 1 (4.1m NE-SW; 1.3m NW-SE; H 1.5m) is entered through a modern opening at the NE end. Two niches in the NW wall and one in SE wall were noted. A creepway (Wth 0.8m; H 1m) at the SW end gives access to a second passage at right angles to passage 1. Passage 2 (3.3m E-W; 1.4m N-S; H 1.7m) ends with a blocked creepway (Wth 0.9m; H 0.9m; L 3m) at the E end. The area around the entrance is overgrown with bushes. The site of another souterrain (SL038-035002-) is in the SW quadrant of the rath. 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

• SL038-035002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a rath (SL038-035003-). There are no visible remains of this souterrain. An opening to a second souterrain (SL038-035001-) is visible in the NW quadrant of the rath. 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

• SL038-035003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on the E outskirts of Tobercurry town and in the NW corner of a field bordered to the N by a road and to the W by a disused lane. A dense thicket of blackthorn bushes and brambles now covers the rath which appears to survive as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by remnants of a stony scarp (H c. 7m) visible along the E arc and truncated by field boundary along its W arc. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) truncated at W by a field boundary and at N by a road. The 1838 map also shows two souterrains (SL038-035001-; SL038-035002-) named 'Caves', one on the NW edge and the other within the SW quadrant of the rath. 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

• SL038-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope to S of a road. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 35m). This possible rath is not visible at ground level. An early 20th-century farmhouse and yard have been built on the site. 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

• SL038-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 25m). This possible rath is not visible at ground level. A possible standing stone (SL038-037001-) stood c. 70m to NW. 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

• SL038-037001 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, c. 70m NW of a rath (SL038-037----). According to local information, an upright pillar stone stood here within living memory. There are now no visible remains of this stone. Local information also relates that this was an ogham stone from which the townland name was derived though Joyce ([1913], vol. 3, 527) translates Ogham in a place-name context as ' Eo-cham, crooked yew-tree'. 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

• SL038-038001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope and in the W corner of a field, c. 20m N of a rath (SL038-038002-). A D-shaped area (dims. 30m N-S) with a straight S side (L 28m), enclosed by a grass-covered drystone wall (Wth 4m; H 0.6m) topped by a drystone field boundary wall along the W and N arcs. A raised area (c. 10m N-S; c. 12m E-W; H 0.4m) at the NW corner of the interior is separated from the remainder by a drystone wall (Wth 1.3m; H 0.1m) along the E and S sides. 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

• SL038-038002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the SE-facing slope of a rise. A D-shaped area (dims. 21m E-W), with a straight E side (L 27m), defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 4.4-7.4m; H 0.6m) SE-W and by an inner-facing scarp (H 0.25m) W-N. The straight side is defined by a N-S field boundary. No remains of the rath are visible at ground level on the E side of the field boundary. The N portion of the interior is cut into the upslope and the S portion is raised c. 0.15m to compensate for the hillslope. A cashel (SL038-038001-) lies c. 20m to N. 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

• SL038-038003 Enclosure
  Description

  Within the interior of Oghambaun cashel (SL038-038001-). A raised area (c. 12m E-W; c. 10m N-S; H 0.4m) at the NW corner of the cashel is separated from the remainder of the interior by a drystone wall (Wth 1.3m; H 0.1m) along the E and S sides. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL038-039001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise, in rough grazing. The north-westernmost of two conjoined ringforts (see SL038-039002-). A raised oval area (30m NW-SE; 25.5m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.4m) SW-N and by a substantial hedgerow E-SE which divides it from the adjoining cashel (SL038-039002-). The rath is partially overgrown with hawthorn trees. 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

• SL038-039002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the top of a rise, in rough grazing. The south-easternmost of two conjoined enclosures (see SL038-039001-). Indicated on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure but only the S half of this now remains (diam. c. 25m E-W). The interior is enclosed by low remains of a drystone wall (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.1m). There is a hut site (SL038-039004-) and a possible souterrain (SL038-039003-) in the SW quadrant. The cashel is partially overgrown with hawthorn trees. 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

• SL038-039003 Souterrain
  Description

  Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a 'Cave' and on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map as a 'Souterrain' in the SW quadrant of a cashel (SL038-039002-), near or in a hut site (SL038-039004-). There are no visible remains of it. 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

• SL038-039004 Hut site
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a cashel (SL038-039002-). The remains of a rectangular structure (6m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE) defined by a low grass-covered wall (Wth 1.7m; H c. 0.1m). The interior is sunken c. 0.5m below ground level. A souterrain (SL038-039003-) is indicated on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map in or near the hut site. 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

• SL038-139001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In wet pasture, bordering a broad expanse of flat bogland that stretches to S and SE. A kidney-shaped mound (15m ENE-WSW; 8.7m NNW-SSE; H 0.95m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil. There is a shallow oval depression (3m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE) in the W half. The NW end is adjacent to a low flat-topped rise bounded by bedrock. A possible fulacht fia (SL038-139002-) lies 8m to SSW and a small stone-lined well, associated with a nearby ruined 19th-century cottage, c. 8m to NE. 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

• SL038-139002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In wet pasture, bordering a broad expanse of flat bogland that stretches to S and SE. A low oblong grass-covered rise (7.6m NW-SE; c. 4m NE-SW; H 0.35m) of heat-shattered stones and dark soil. The SE end is truncated by an E-W field drain. A fulacht fia (SL038-139001-) lies 8m to NNE. 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

• SL038-143 Burial ground
  Description

  Located c. 1km SE of Tobercurry. There is a local tradition of human burials in the NE corner of the field though no information on the likely date of these is known. A slightly raised roughly circular area (diam. c. 15m), topped with some scattered limestone boulders, is evident in the N half of the field. A further scatter of limestone boulders is in the extreme NW corner of the field. 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 Oghambaun.

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 5 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oghambaun · Ócham Bán

Area

1,656,989 m² (165.7 ha, 409.45 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Tobercurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tobercurry electoral division: 3,118 people in 1,190 households; 60% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowreagh (Cooper), Leitrim South, Powellsborough, Tobercurry

Placenames

Oghambaun 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.