Spotfield

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spotfield, from 201 m² to 455,413 m² (45.54 ha, 112.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Spotfield 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.

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the 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, 21323

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  development consisting of (1) New Slatted Shed (2) New Straw Bedded Shed, together all associated site works including new agricultural entrance onto the public road

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20168

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 Spotfield.

Recorded monuments

• SL026-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NE-facing slope. A circular area (18m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by a degraded stony bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m at SW, 0.5m at NE) with an external fosse (Wth 3.5m). The bank is little more than a slight rise from which stone protrudes randomly. The fosse is shallow but clearly defined S-NW where it is cut into rising ground but elsewhere is a barely perceptible surface depression. The SW half of the interior slopes gently down to NE levelling out in the NE half. Traces of a levelled field boundary are visible extending to SE from the bank at 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

• SL026-142001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge with excellent views of the surrounding undulating terrain. A raised roughly oval area (c. 37.5m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined ESE-NE by a scarp (H 1.7m ) with an external fosse (Wth c. 5.5m). A possible outer bank is evident S-WSW as a barely discernible flat-topped rise (Wth c. 3m). The outer edge of the fosse W-NW is incorporated into a field boundary (Wth 1.3m; ext. H 0.8m). At NE-E there is a broad causeway (Wth 11m) across the fosse and the interior is flush with the exterior ground level. This is the result of recent modification of the rath but may mask the original entrance. The fosse appears greatly expanded (Wth 8-9m) at SE and NW due to the quarrying of part of the interior platform. A possible rath (SL026-142002-) lies immediately to N. 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

• SL026-142002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge with excellent views of the surrounding undulating terrain. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 20m) abutting the N side of the rath (SL026-142001-). Little remains of this enclosure apart from a flat roughly rectangular area (18m N-S; 15m E-W) bordered by a field boundary on the S side and enclosed on W, N and E sides by a deep trench (Wth 10m; D 1.4m). 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 Spotfield.

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, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Spotfield.

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

Name

Spotfield · An Bhreac-chluanach

Area

1,281,365 m² (128.14 ha, 316.63 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysadare, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lisconny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lisconny electoral division: 394 people in 131 households; 92% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Branchfield, Carrickbanagher, Clooneen, Coolteen, Drumfin, Knocknagroagh, Lisruntagh

Placenames

Spotfield 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.