Teesan
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Taosán
- Area
- 64.4 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 1,979 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- GB – green belt
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Teesan, from 58 m² to 153,137 m² (15.31 ha, 37.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Nov 2025Conditional
Construction of new side porch entrance structure and new/relocated waste water treatment system c/w demolition of front porch and sheds.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560471
17 Jan 2025Refused
(A) A two storey side and rear extension (B) with connection to new upgraded/relocated WWTS & percolation area to include and other site works as required & (C) demolition of front porch, two no. chimneys & two no. barns
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560013
11 Jul 2023Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house with sewage treatment system and separate domestic garage and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2373
10 Aug 2022Conditional
development consisting of the following: to extend and renovate existing dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22273
17 May 2021Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of garage
Permission · Sligo County Council, 21176
11 May 2018Conditional
Development consisting of Permission to erect a part two-storey house, part one storey house with attached 'Granny Flat', provision of domestic garage, provision of an effluent treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18173
22 Dec 2017Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of dwelling house and garage with foul treatment system along with all associated site works as required
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17484
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Teesan.
Recorded monuments
- SL008-148 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise, on level ground, in densely overgrown area to rear of modern houses. Raised roughly circular area (diam. c.20m) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth c.4m; int. H c.0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank appears to enclose the site on all sides and has a uniform profile where partially accessible NW-N. The bank has been incorporated into modern property boundaries NNE-E and modern houses have been constructed 15m to the NW and SE of the site. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL008-149 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-018 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-302 Bullaun stone
Description
Located in the garden of a house. A roughly square, smooth-surfaced block of sandstone (max. dim. c. 0.5m; H 0.35-0.4m) with somewhat rounded corners and a flat base. A circular hollow (diam. 0.2m; D 0.12m) is cut into the centre of the upper surface; the sides of the hollow slope inwards gently to a flat base. The exact provenance of the stone is unknown; it was moved here from an unknown location in Ardtrasna townland or Carnagark townland, c. 10km NW of its current location. This monument was notified to NMS by Leo Leydon. Attached images: SL014-302----_01 view of central hollow SL014-302----_01 side profile Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 December 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Teesan.
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 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_1098 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Teesan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Teesan · Taosán
- Area
- 643,859 m² (64.39 ha, 159.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Drumcliff East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcliff East electoral division: 764 people in 299 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvoher, Carncash, Lisnalurg, Magheragillerneeve or Springfield, Rahaberna
- Placenames
- Teesan 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.