Rathmadder

208 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmadder, from 36 m² to 91,675 m² (9.17 ha, 22.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 173 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 · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  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.

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission for extensions and alterations to our existing facility as follows: 1. Single storey extensions to the production area including various internal alterations and associated external plant, 2. Single storey extensions consisting of packaging & dry goods stores, 3. Relocation of existing modular cold store unit, 4. Minor elevational alterations to the existing building 5. Additional carparking and all ancillary site works at Green Isle Foods, Ballymote Road, Gurteen, Co Sligo, F56 PC62.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660091

• 15 Apr 2025N/a

  extension to existing dwelling house with alterations to elevations and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560141

• 31 Mar 2025Conditional

  change of use of the first-floor area only of the existing dressing rooms to a to breakfast club and homework club and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560122

• 18 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) Retain the existing two number steel tech shed office extensions to the existing building (total floor area 52sqm), (2) Retain the existing two number cold storage container extensions to the existing building (total floor area 102sqm), (3) and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460120

• 21 Mar 2024Conditional

  development consisting of the following: the construction of single storey extension to national school (circa 361 sqm). Accommodation will include mainstream classroom, special educational needs (SEN) facilities, mainstream classroom, office ancillary rooms, new external play areas, and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2417

• 1 Mar 2024N/a

  development consisting of the following: the construction of single storey extension to national school (circa 632 sqm). Accommodation will include mainstream classroom, special educational needs (SEN) facilities, mainstream classroom, office, ancillary rooms, new external play areas, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2410

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a side and rear extension to existing dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and connection to existing services on site

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360068

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  development consisting of the following: to construct 5 no. 2 storey detached houses and 8 no. 2 storey semi detached houses with new access onto public road and all associated site works including connection to existing public sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360053

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) Construction of an all weather pitch with associated fencing, dugouts and floodlighting, (2) Proposed new vehicular access road to existing parking area, (3) Signage indicating location of proposed football pitch, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360043

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  development consisting of (1) retention of rear extension to the northeast and northwest of the existing workshop (2) retention of first floor flat roof dwelling extension (3) reduce the curtilage of the house for use as private garden for the dwelling with the remainder for use ancillary to the workshop (4) change the first floor door on the northwest elevation of the dwelling house to a window (4) proposed 2 no. extensions to the workshop (5) proposed new commercial side gates to be installed in line with the existing house (6) lower front boundary walls to the west and southwest to achieve suitable sightlines (7) proposed new boundary fence to southeast boundary and (8) carry out all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22322

• 18 Jan 2022Conditional

  Development consisting of permission to (a) retain location of dwelling house as built on site, (b) retain location of garage as built on site, (c) retain existing site boundaries, (d) retain existing site entrance as constructed on site, (e) erect entrance walls and gates and boundary fence, together with all ancillary site works and services, (previous planning reference PL06/679 refers)

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2215

• 18 Oct 2021N/a

  development consisting of the construction of 5 no. two storey detached houses, 2 no. two storey semi-detached houses and 6 no. two and a half storey semi-detached houses with new access onto public road and all associated site works including connection to existing public sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21417

• 28 May 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the following; (a) remove the existing temporary childcare unit on site, (b) erect a permanent classroom unit on site and connect to existing services on site, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 21202

• 23 Mar 2021N/a

  development consisting of the following; to retain 80m2 of additional workshop floor area constructed which differs to that previously granted under PL07/349. Construct 2nr. single storey extensions onto the existing eastern elevation of the workshop facility. The extensions will comprise of storage facilities for stock materials currently stored on site. Connections to existing site wervices & all associated site development works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 21101

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  development consisting of (a) make alterations to elevations on existing dwelling house, (b) build an extension to the side of existing dwelling house, floor area 110 square metres (c) proposed new vehicular access together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 20452

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the following (a) make alterations to elevations on existing dwelling house, (b) build an extension to the side of existing dwelling house, floor area 68 square metres together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20322

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of new extensions to the front and rear of our existing dwelling house, modifications to the existing front boundary wall including formation of a new entrance, new garden shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 20307

• 26 Mar 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of erection of a temporary prefabricated unit and connection to existing services on site together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2098

• 2 Dec 2019Conditional

  development consisting of the change of house design to that previously granted under PL 11/89

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19485

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the demolition of an existing single storey garage/extension and construction of a new two storey and single storey porch to an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18437

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  (a) alterations to elevations on existing dwellinghouse (b) building of an extension to the side of existing dwellinghouse - floor area 60sqm (c) make alterations to existing site boundaries, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17219

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 Rathmadder.

Recorded monuments

• SL044-030 Enclosure
  Description

  On an E-facing slope. This enclosure has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small oval area outlined by a dotted line, immediately S of a road and on the 1942-3 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval area (c. 20m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) open to SE. Gurteen health centre is 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

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone Catholic church, built c. 1840. Central nave with bellcote to south gable, east and west six-bay aisles, gabled porch c. 1980 to south end, lean-to porch to north end of east aisle leading to gabled sacristy. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, ashlar copings to verges, gabled ashlar bellcote with pointed-arch opening containing bell, moulded cast-iron gutters to nave, profiled extruded aluminium gutters to aisles. Squared-and-snecked rubble walling, splay-capped buttresses to aisles. Lancet windows to aisles and south elevation, splayed ashlar surrounds, flush sills, stained glass leaded-lights. Quatrefoil window openings and oculus window opening to chancel north elevation, ashlar surrounds, stained glass leaded-lights. Triangular-headed window openings to porch, concrete surrounds, masonry sills, stained glass leaded-lights. Triangular-headed east and west door openings to porch, concrete surrounds, varnished vertically-sheeted double doors. Interior with splayed ceiling, pointed arches to aisles and chancel with panelled soffits. Set in bitmac carpark, road to south, various upright grave markers to west, approached by driveway between two two-storey properties.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1042 (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.

• Rathmadder, Gurteen5 sales

Name

Rathmadder · Ráth Meadair

Area

651,217 m² (65.12 ha, 160.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfree, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Kilfree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfree electoral division: 541 people in 230 households; 69% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlaheen, Gorteen, Kilstraghlan or Ragwood, Knocknashammer, Lisbaleely

Placenames

Rathmadder 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.