Toorlestraun

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toorlestraun, from 145 m² to 78,167 m² (7.82 ha, 19.32 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Toorlestraun 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house, proprietary treatment system, infiltration area and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560529

• 11 Sept 2025N/a

  Dwelling house, proprietary treatment system, infiltration area and all ancillary siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560380

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  (a) restore existing dwelling house (b) make elevation changes to existing dwelling house (d) demolish existing rear extensions to dwelling house and rebuild a new two storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house, (d) install a new septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560110

• 15 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of a proposed 201m2 single storey club house at training grounds consisting of 2 no. dressing rooms, multi-purpose room, shower area, toilets, plant room etc complete with proposed new proprietary effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter, together with a small scale spectator stand (36m2) and all associated works

  Extension of duration · Sligo County Council, 12175

• 7 Mar 2017Conditional

  development consisting of a revised design to the proposed single storey clubhouse (to that approved under PL 12/175) at the training grounds

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 1786

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 Toorlestraun.

Recorded monuments

• SL037-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A raised oval area (diam. 25.2m N-S; present E-W 27.8m) defined by a scarp (H 1.25m) NW-NE and E-SSW and by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.8m) NE-E and SSW-SW. A N-S field boundary and drain truncate the W edge of the rath. The interior slopes down to E and the remains of cultivation ridges are evident. The rath is being eroded by cattle. 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

• Saint Attracta's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached rendered Catholic church, built 1844. Cruciform plan, four-bay nave, two-bay north and south transepts, full-width chancel to east, bellcote to west gable, single-storey sacristy with M-profile gabled roofs to east (chancel) gable-end. Pitched slate roofs, crested clay ridge tiles, ashlar limestone verge copings on corbelled springers, wrought-iron cross on belfry, stone crosses on transept gables, octagonal stone chimney on chancel gable, profiled extruded aluminium gutters c. 1995 on eaves corbel course. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling with straight V-jointed quoins to front (west), limestone plaque above door inscribed 'This church was erected A.D. 1844 revd. D Mullarkey P.P.', unpainted roughcast to other elevations and sacristy. Dressed ashlar gabled belfry with bell missing from pointed-arch opening, on round-headed base carried on semi-circular inverted cone corbels. Pointed-arched window openings, chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, hood moulds, flush chamfered sills, oculus windows in transept gables, stained-glass leaded lights, secondary glazing. Square-headed window openings to sacristy, smooth-rendered reveals, painted one-over-one timber sash windows. Pointed-arched door openings to west gable and north transept, dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds, contemporary stained glass fanlight over west door, hardwood vertically-sheeted double doors, hardwood diagonally-sheeted double doors with matching fixed panel over to transept. Interior with queen post truss roof, timber sheeting to flat and splayed soffit of roof, painted plaster walling, painted dado, hardwood panelling to chancel, timber pews, gallery to west end with panelled front, glazed screen below with contemporary stained glass c.1995. Road fronted, graveyard to south-west.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toorlestraun · Tuar Loistreáin

Area

1,037,739 m² (103.77 ha, 256.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Banada, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Banada electoral division: 610 people in 238 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banada, Carraun, Coolrecuill, Curraghboy, Gortermone, Knockahoney

Placenames

Toorlestraun 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.