Tawnalaghta
Townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Tamhnaigh Leachta
- Area
- 450.3 ha
- 1,113 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 10,207 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnalaghta, from 260 m² to 2,743,618 m² (274.36 ha, 677.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Tawnalaghta 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
29 Mar 2018Conditional
PP - for development consisting of (1) demolition of existing derelict dwelling house (2) construction of a replacement dormer dwelling house (3) construction of a septic tank and percolation area (4) bore a domestic well (5) new vehicular entrance (6) carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 1898
20 Oct 2017Conditional
Development consisting of planning permission for retention of dwelling house in its as constructed orientation and to retain a sun room of 10m2 located on the south gable of the house at Tawnalaghta TD, Culleens, Co Sligo
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17396
18 Aug 2017N/a
(1)retention of the as constructed window design and layout to all elevations (2)retention of a sun room of 10m2 located on the south gable of existing dwelling
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17316
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tawnalaghta.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawnalaghta.
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 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 Tawnalaghta.
- 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 Tawnalaghta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Tawnalaghta · Tamhnaigh Leachta
- Area
- 4,502,937 m² (450.29 ha, 1,112.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Castleconor East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconor East electoral division: 239 people in 82 households; 90% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caltragh, Carns, Cloonkeelaun, Culleens, Tawnamore, Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun
- Placenames
- Tawnalaghta 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.