Quigaboy
Townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Cúige Buí
- Area
- 101.1 ha
- 250 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,900 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quigaboy, from 355 m² to 334,657 m² (33.47 ha, 82.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Quigaboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Sept 2020Conditional
Development consisting of (1) construction of a Single Storey Dwellinghouse and Domestic Garage (2) Installation of Proprietary, On Site Waste Water Treatment System and Percolation Area (3) Carry out all Ancillary Site Works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20311
19 Jul 2018Conditional
Development consisting of construction of a single-storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, new on-site wastewater treatment system together with ancillary site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18287
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Quigaboy.
Recorded monuments
- SL010-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low rise in otherwise lowlying pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 25m NE-SW) enclosed at NNW–S by a low bank (Wth. 3.3m; H 0.7m). Bank has been levelled on the W half of the rath. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
- SL010-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a low rise in otherwise lowlying, level pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 27m) enclosed by a low bank (Wth. 4.3m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.65-1.8m) of earth and stone with an external fosse (Wth. 4m). At the outer lip of the fosse is a second bank (Wth. 6m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 0.8m). The interior slopes down gently from centre towards the entrance gap (Wth. 2.4m) at NE. A depression, in the NE quadrant, and a small cavity, infilled with stones, in the inner bank at SE, may be evidence of a souterrain (SL010-023002-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 March 2013
- SL010-023001 Souterrain
Description
In a rath (SL010-023001-). A depression, in the NE quadrant of the rath interior, and a small cavity, infilled with stones, in the inner bank at SE, may be evidence of a souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 March 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Quigaboy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Quigaboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Quigaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Quigaboy · An Cúige Buí
- Area
- 1,010,563 m² (101.06 ha, 249.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilglass electoral division: 1,765 people in 695 households; 67% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 33% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabragh, Carranduff, Leaffony, Quigabar
- Placenames
- Quigaboy 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.