Trotts
Trotts is a townland in the civil parish of Kilglass, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Trotaigh.
- Area
- 19.3 ha
- 48 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 376 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- eRES – existing and infill residential use
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trotts, from 113 m² to 34,787 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1nRES – new residential uses (New/proposed residential)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4SLR - Strategic Land Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 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
1 Oct 2026N/a
Retain an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house which was previously granted permission under PL19/433, also permission to construct a new domestic shed, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660408
3 Sept 2026N/a
Permission to retain an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house which was previously granted permission under PL19/433, also permission to construct a new domestic shed, together with all associated site works at Carrowhubbuck North, Enniscrone, Co. Sligo.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2660357
5 Dec 2024Conditional
retention and completion of alterations to approved house design previously granted under PL22/366 for house No. 2.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460455
18 Oct 2024Conditional
1. Retention of the house, garage and site boundaries previously granted permission under planning ref no. 06/66. 2. Permission to connect to the public sewer and all associated site works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2460369
27 Sept 2024Refused
1. Demolition of the existing shed 2. Construction of a new dwelling house, together with effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460328
29 Mar 2024Conditional
restoration of existing dwelling and new build of a single storey extension to the front of the dwelling and a two storey extension to the north gable of dwelling. The height of the two storey building is 7.37mts please refer to drawings for further information
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460092
20 Dec 2023Conditional
alterations to approved house design previously granted under P22/366 for house No's. 4, 6 & 7
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360362
7 Nov 2022Conditional
development consisting of the construction of 7 no. detached dwelling houses, new site entrance, connection to public utilities together with ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22366
22 Dec 2021Conditional
Development consisting of widening and upgrading of existing agricultural entrance including the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 21512
29 Oct 2021N/a
development consisting of the construction of revised agricultural entrance to existing lands. The proposed works will involve the removal of existing entrance and the construction of relocated entrance including the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 21430
21 Oct 2019Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house and carrying out all associated alterations, replacing existing septic tank with a new proprietary effluent treatment system together with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19433
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 Trotts.
Recorded monuments
- SL016-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the NE end of a NE-SW ridge in undulating pasture. Raised circular area (29.4m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.5-3.1m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.25-1.4m) of earth and stone with a stone facing. A break (Wth 4m) in the bank at E, whose N terminal is faced with stone, represents the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey rendered house, built c. 1850. Rectangular plan, north-facing, two-bay two-storey building perpendicular to west end of south elevation, single-storey projection to south abutting two-storey building, single-storey shed with mono-pitch corrugated-iron roof to east gable. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted smooth rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber panelled door. Two-storey outbuilding parallel to house, pitched slate roof, unpainted rendered walls, external stone staircase to upper floor, grass yard between outbuilding and house, rubble stone boundary walls, rendered gate piers, wrought-iron field gates.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Trotts, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Trotts.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Trotts with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Trotts · Trotaigh
- Area
- 192,874 m² (19.29 ha, 47.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,765 people lived in 695 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 33% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowhubbuck North, Carrowhubbuck South, Frankford, Kinard
- Placenames
- Trotts 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.