Powellsborough

201 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Powellsborough, from 10 m² to 129,804 m² (12.98 ha, 32.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jul 2024Conditional

  (a) retain first floor extension and balcony to rear of dwelling house and (b) retain detached domestic garage

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460243

• 6 May 2024N/a

  planning permission to: (a) retain first floor extension and balcony to rear of dwelling house and (b) retain detached domestic garage

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460151

• 23 Dec 2022N/a

  planning permission to: (a) retain first floor extension and balcony to rear of dwelling house and (b) retain detached domestic garage

  Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 2260013

• 20 Feb 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of (1) demolition of 1 no. inhabitable house and 1 no. disused shed and (2) construction of a dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter and associates site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2052

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a dwelling house, effluent treatment unit and raised polishing filter and new entrance together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19327

• 12 Sept 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of retention to the existing garage/storage shed as constructed along with ancillary site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 18368

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 Powellsborough.

Recorded monuments

• SL038-045 Enclosure
  Description

  In poorly drained pasture, at the base of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a fosse is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 227-6). It is not visible at ground level. The area of the enclosure is conspicuous by having a sparse concentration of rushes in contrast to the surrounding dense concentration. 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

• SL038-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat wet pasture, on the W side of a road. A slightly raised circular area (27.7m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m) E-W and by a scarp elsewhere. The outer bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H 0.2m) is evident SW-W and the intervening fosse (Wth 5.8m; D 1m) is evident all round. The interior is raised c. 0.4m above the external ground level. A field fence and drain cross the centre of the interior on an E-W axis. 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

• SL038-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Remains of a slightly raised circular rath (diam. c. 27m), the SW quadrant of which has been removed by quarrying. The remaining area is enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.9m) with internal and external stone revetment. The N half of the interior is flat, the S half slopes down to S. 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 Powellsborough.

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 high, 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 Powellsborough.

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

Name

Powellsborough · Na Mullacha

Area

4,226,678 m² (422.67 ha, 1,044.43 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

Ballindoo or Doocastle (Co. Mayo), Carrowreagh (Cooper), Leitrim South, Magheranore, Moylough, Oghambaun

Placenames

Powellsborough 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.