Rathbarran

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbarran, from 24 m² to 132,317 m² (13.23 ha, 32.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the installation of a 27 metres lattice telecommunications support structure carrying antennas, dishes, remote radio units (RRU’s), associated equipment, together with ground-based equipment cabinets, GPS, fencing, gate, gantry poles, cable ladder, cable tray, concrete foundation, access track and all associated site development works for wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460209

• 23 Jan 2024Conditional

  To construct a Dwelling house, Garage, Septic tank and Percolation area on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460020

• 11 Oct 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, formation of a new site entrance and all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 16493

• 8 Oct 2018N/a

  Development consisting of construction of a dwelling house, garage, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18402

• 1 Aug 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a new two storey dwelling with associated domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18313

• 29 Nov 2017N/a

  consisting of the construction of a new forestry access entrance and road to an existing mature forest and all ancillary works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17448

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 Rathbarran.

Recorded monuments

• SL025-051001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In level pasture, with good views of the surrounding countryside. Indicated as a circular hillock (diam. c. 40m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map with the accompanying name 'Carn'. The hillock is named 'Sheeaun' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map and the cairn as 'Carn (site of)'. The hillock (c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W; H c. 5m) is now almost entirely quarried away due to gravel extraction and there are no visible remains of the cairn. A short cist (SL025-051002-) containing two burial urns was found within the cairn (Wood-Martin 1887-8, 273). 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

• SL025-051002 Cist
  Description

  Wood-Martin (1887-8, 273) recorded the discovery, in the 1870s, of a cist 'on a hill called Sheeawn' (SL025-051001-) which 'contained two urns, one inside of the other'. There are no visible remains of this cist. It is one of three cists known from Rathbarran townland (see SL025-071002- and SL025-151----). (Waddell 1990, 133) 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

• SL025-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on the E side of a low rise. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 29.5m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and a counterscarp bank. The inner bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) is low internally all round and is levelled for a short section to W. Traces of internal stone revetment were noted. The fosse and counterscarp bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.2m) are evident SSW-N. An E-W field boundary at S obscures the line of the fosse. There is a narrow gap (Wth 1.4m) in the bank at SSE, partially lined with stones. The interior slopes down to E. There is a thick band of nettles inside the bank in the W half of the interior. There is a heap of stones (3m E-W; 1.5m N-S; H 0.4m) roughly in the centre of the N half of the interior and another similar heap (diam. 2m; H 0.2m) in the S half, to E of which is rough arc of stones (C 4m). The bank is ringed with hawthorn bushes. 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

• SL025-071001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a natural rise and densely covered with undergrowth and trees. The natural rise is utilised to form a high flat-topped circular platform (24.6m NW-SE) defined on top by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 4.8m) S-N and by a scarp N-S. A tumble of loose stones was noted on the external slope of the bank. The base of the platform is enclosed all round by a fosse (Wth 3m) with an external bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H c. 3.6m). A tumble of loose stones is evident on the internal and external slopes of this bank, most noticeably at NW. The interior is mostly level with a slight slope down to SE. A shallow depression (Wth 1.4m; D 0.15m) skirts the bank internally S-N. At NNE a sunken pathway (Wth 1.6m) through the outer bank leads to a series of steps, bordered on the W side by remnants of a low stone wall, which have been cut into the external slope of the platform. Another pathway approaches the barrow from the road to the E and curves up the slope of the hill to an eroded section of the outer bank at SE where a causeway (Wth 1.8m) crosses the fosse. A field boundary abuts the outer bank at WNW and another crosses the fosse at SSE. A large boulder (1.3m x 1.4m; H 0.75m) in the fosse at NNE is known locally as a mass-rock (SL025-071003-). A cist (SL025-071002-) containing an urn is said to have been found on the summit (Wood-Martin 1887-8, 270-72). 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

• SL025-071002 Cist
  Description

  Wood-Martin (1887-8, 270-72) described an urn, then in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy, which was found on the summit of an ancient rath (presumably SL025-071001-) in Rathbarran townland. The urn was discovered within a 'square coffer of flagstones placed on edge' and measured '43/4 inches [0.12m] high, 6 inches [0.15m] broad and 53/4 [0.14m] wide in the mouth' (ibid., 271-2). It was decorated all over, except for the base, with incised lines and 'enriched about the middle with five raised bands, more or less ornamented with chevrons, and wavy oblique lines' (ibid., 271). It contained cremated bones and a stone disc and a polished stone axehead was found with it. There are no visible remains of this cist. It is one of three cists known from Rathbarran townland (see SL025-051002- and SL025-151----). (Waddell 1990, 133; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 131) 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

• SL025-071003 Mass-rock
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Mass Rock'. In the fosse at the NNE of Rathbarran barrow (SL025-071001-) is a large boulder (1.3m x 1.4m; H 0.75m). It is known by the people in the locality as a mass-rock. The classification mass-rock is likely to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

Architectural heritage

• Killoran Church, church/chapel, 1760–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached stone Church of Ireland church, built c. 1767, altered c. 1830. Cruciform plan, single-bay nave, gabled north and south single-bay transepts, semi-circular apse to east, three stage tower to west, crypt to east. Pitched slate roofs, artificial ridge tiles, ashlar limestone corbelled chimneystacks to tansept gables each with twin diagonally-set shafts, ashlar limestone verges, half-round copper gutters on drive-in brackets on moulded ashlar limestone eaves corbel course. Roughly squared rubble limestone walling, ashlar limestone eaves string continuing across gables and around tower, string to tower below belfry, crenellated parapet to tower. Round-headed window openings, blind recesses to west and east elevations of transepts and west elevation of tower, limestone sills, tooled ashlar limestone Gibbsian surrounds, stained glass lights to apse and transepts, uPVC fixed casement windows to nave, painted timber louvres to tower. Square-headed window openings to crypt, tooled ashlar limestone surrounds, limestone sills, central mullion, painted fixed twelve-pane timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening, tooled ashlar limestone Gibbsian surround, hardwood timber double-doors c. 1980 each with five raised-and-fielded panels, plain-glazed fanlight, stone-flagged access ramp with railing. On slightly-elevated site, lawns and trees to grounds, bitmac paths, recumbent, upright and table tombs to graveyard, rubble limestone boundary walls with alternating large and small rubble copings, simple round-topped gate pillars and wrought-iron flat-bar double gates opening to road to north and south.

• Rathbarran House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey-over-basement rendered former rectory, built c.1811, now in use as private house. Single-storey canted bay to centre rear (east) elevation. Hipped artificial slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on paired plain painted timber corbels. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, projecting plinth course. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening, deep concave reveals, oblong four-pane overlight, painted half-glazed timber door with two raised-and-fielded panels and margined glazing, approached by three stone steps. Square-headed door opening to canted bay, painted half-glazed timber door with two raised-and-fielded panels and margined glazing, gabled canopy over. Gardens to front, walled garden to rear.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_988 (ZIP).

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

Name

Rathbarran · Ráth Bharrainn

Area

1,626,760 m² (162.68 ha, 401.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Coolaney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolaney electoral division: 1,563 people in 558 households; 74% of households own their home; 73% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowclooneen, Carrownacarrick, Carrownacleigha, Carrownleam, Coolaney, Creevaun, Rathgran

Placenames

Rathbarran 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.