Sandyhill

219 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sandyhill, from 8 m² to 29,507 m² (2.95 ha, 7.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  Retention Permission for a detached domestic garage as constructed, including an increase in floor area from that previously permitted under Planning Ref. PL 03/992, together with the retention of an additional window to the north gable elevation of the dwelling house and an additional window to the south gable elevation of the dwelling house, and for Retention Permission for the relocation of the approved site entrance from that permitted under Planning Ref. PL 03/992, together with all associated ancillary site development works,

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660329

• 10 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) to retain the revised elevation changes to our dwelling house, elevations differ as to what was previously granted under PL6424/76 (2) to retain the existing detached domestic garage (3) to retain the existing extension to the rear and side of the house (4) to retain the change of use of the original garage to residential (5) to retain the revised site boundaries (6) to retain the location of the site entrances, locations differ as to what was previously granted under PL6424/76 (7) and all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660219

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• SL042-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a WNW-facing slope down to a bog c. 100m away. When inspected in 1994 it consisted of a raised circular grass-covered area (42.5m N-S; 41.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m). An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.1m) was evident SE-NE. An outer earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.7m) was evident NW-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 revision: 22 April 2010

• SL042-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise. A raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1m) along the SE and SW arcs and by a scarp elsewhere. A shallow external fosse (Wth c. 7m; D 0.10m) is evident along the SE, S and SW arcs. The edge of the rath has recently been truncated at NW. The interior is raised 0.7m to 1.25m above external ground level. A field boundary and a lane skirt the edge of the rath NNW-E. 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

• SL042-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the base of a low SE-facing escarpment, above the flood-plain of the Black River. There are no visible remains of this holy well. It may have been removed during sand extraction activity in the area. 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 Sandyhill.

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, 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_823 (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 Sandyhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Sandyhill · Cnoc an Ghainimh

Area

1,249,936 m² (124.99 ha, 308.87 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Achonry West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Achonry West electoral division: 810 people in 311 households; 85% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellahy, Bunnacranagh, Cloonaweema (Co. Mayo), Cloonlaughil, Lavy More (Co. Mayo), Montiagh

Placenames

Sandyhill 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.