Tawnamore

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnamore, from 277 m² to 3,908,587 m² (390.86 ha, 965.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Tawnamore 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.

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of amendment to planning permission PL17/93 for development of four wind turbines. The amendment application will consist of the removal of condition 7(c) of planning permission PL17/93, which provided for the removal of the crane hard standings following erection of the turbines.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20228

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of an amendment to the permitted grid connection (Ref. No. PL16/422). The amended grid connection will be from the Black Lough Wind Farm at Tawnamore, Co. Sligo (Ref. No. PL17/93 to the permitted control building at Cloonkeelaun (Ref. No. PL 16/422), traversing the townlands of Tawnamore and Cloonkeelaun. The development will consist of a 20kv cable extending to (a) circa 2.3 kilometres of overhead line supported by a single wooden poles, (b) approximately 240m of underground cabling extending from turbine T2 at Black Lough to the first wooden pole and (c) approximately 100m of underground cabling from the southern-most pole of the proposed overhead line to the control building at Cloonkeelaun. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority at

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19160

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  a ten year permission for development consisting of: (a) erection of four wind turbines with blade tip height of 124.33m (78.33m hub height, 92m rotor diameter) (b) cranage and assembly hardstand areas adjacent to each turbine (c) control room and parking spaces (d) cabling between each turbine (e) widening of existing access road and provision of new sections of access road to serve wind turbines (f) stilling ponds (g) peat reinstatement areas (h) replacement bridge across Gowlan River and realignment of approaches to the bridge (i) use of existing borrow pit and (j) all associated ancillary infrastructure. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been submitted with the application. The proposed development is located

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 1793

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: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006

Recorded monuments

• SL017-082 Field system
  Description

  Locating in an area of cutaway blanket bog, with scattered, active areas of small-scale machine turf harvesting, on a broad, flat-topped N–S ridge. The E side of the ridge falls into the Easkey River valley. This record was not listed in the SMR (1989). It was listed in the RMP (1995) as ‘field system -pre-bog’ but no source of information or field description was added to the file at that time. The area was inspection in 2014. Remnants of three possible field walls were found. At ITM 538582 827171 a cropmark of low heather highlights a linear concentration (Wth 0.7-1m) of stones which can be traced in a shallow arc NNW–SSE for 19-20m. The stones protrude only slightly above the bog surface but appear densely packed. Located 35m to SE at ITM 538616 827120 is a short length of possible wall (Wth 0.7m) which is visible as a concentration of stones (Wth 0.7m) extending for 4-5m on a NW–SE axis. It is bisected on a WNW–ESE axis a by a linear peat bank (Wth 1m; H 0.4m). Located 10m to ESE at ITM 538618 827111 is another short length of possible wall consisting of a concentration (Wth 0.8-1m) of stones barely protruding from the bog surface. It can be traced for 3m on a NE–SW axis. The relationship between the three discrete lengths of wall is unknown, and it is not possible to reconstruct the original pattern of the field system. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 August 2014

• SL023-001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  The monument was originally surveyed in 1974 and a description, plan and photograph depublished in Ó Nualláin (1989, no. 85): see linked document with details from this publication. At some subsequent point the monument was damaged and the facade and some other stones removed. A dump of boulders c. 20m N of the tomb probably relates to this activity. Only the tops of the outer-walling and the backstone are visible above the peat surface. See attached images. SL023-001----_01 and 02 were taken in September 1974. SL023-001----_01 was taken looking W and SL023-001----_02 was taken looking NW. SL023-001----_03 was taken in June 2013 looking NW and shows the current condition of the tomb. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 25 June 2013

• SL023-003 Burial
  Description

  The body of a middle-aged man was found at a depth of 0.8m below the surface in a bog in Tawnamore townland. The body, which was extended on its back, with the head to the SSE, lay on on birch twigs. A full set of well preserved woollen clothing was recovered, including a hat, overcoat, jacket, breeches, pair of knitted woollen socks, pair of garters and a pair of shoes: these are on display in the National Museum of Ireland. The style of the clothing suggested a date of the mid-17th-century. The location of the site of the discovery was verified in 2013 (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). (Lucas 1972, 181-223; 215-222; Timoney and Heraughty 2002, 290-1) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 May 2013

• SL023-009 Field boundary
  Description

  Locating in a field of rough pasture, bordered by bog to W, SW and NW. The field slopes gradually to E and S towards the valley of the Gowlan River. This record was not listed in the SMR (1989). It was listed in the RMP (1995) as ‘field wall –pre-bog’ but no source of information or field description was added to the file at that time. The area was inspected in 2014. The field, appears to have been reclaimed from bog. The ground surface, covered in rough grass, rushes, and tufts of heather, is very uneven, with frequent heather-covered, peaty hummocks and much stone breaking the surface. The stones are low and largely obscured by moss, sod or heather, and in general appear to be randomly scattered. It is unclear whether the heather-covered hummocks conceal more stones. One possible linear feature was noted. It consists of a gapped line of stones and heathery hummocks covering a distance of c. 6m on a WNW–ESE axis. It is not possible to be certain that this represents the remains of a pre-bog field wall. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tawnamore.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Tawnamore.

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

Name

Tawnamore · An Tamhnaigh Mhór

Area

6,934,422 m² (693.44 ha, 1,713.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacshalgan, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Mullagheruse, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanaboy, Caltragh, Cloonkeelaun, Fiddandarry, Letterunshin, Owenykeevan or Tawnamaddoo, Tawnalaghta, Tawnatruffaun

Placenames

Tawnamore 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.