# Willowbrook, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Calry, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Gabhlán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 409,977 m² (41 ha, 101.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 66,992 m² (6.7 ha, 16.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Calry, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/calry.md - Barony: Carbury - Electoral division: Calry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,792 people lived in 654 households in the Calry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45156 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 201267 - Centre: latitude 54.300594, longitude -8.426221 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Willowbrook, from 4,930 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres) to 129,053 m² (12.91 ha, 31.89 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 780821: 129,053 m² (12.91 ha, 31.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/780821.md - Parcel 774903: 4,930 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/774903.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Willowbrook in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 9 Mar 2021, Sligo County Council 2178: Conditional. Permission. development consisting of the construction of a domestic garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2178/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Willowbrook. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL009-041: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL009-041----. Situated on a slight SW-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.25m; int. H 0.7m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. A break (Wth 2.4m) in the bank at SW marks the position of the original entrance. The interior is planted with spruce and ash trees. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 - SL009-042: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL009-042----. Situated on a slight terrace, with a steep S-facing slope on the S side, in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but depicted as a hachured arc (L c.25m) on the 1913 edition. The monument has been levelled and there are no remains now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 - SL009-044: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL009-044----. Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but depicted as a small, hachured circular feature (diam. c.10m) on the 1913 edition. This monument has been levelled and there are no remains now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 - SL015-003: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL015-003----. Situated on a slight S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition on the OS 6-inch map but depicted as a roughly circular hachured area (diam. c.20m) on the 1912 edition. According to local information this monument was levelled in the 1940s (SMR (1989) file) and there are no remains of it now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 - SL015-004: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL015-004----. Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. The monument lay within the demense lands of Willowbrook House which is c.280m NW. It is depicted as a circular tree-covered enclosure on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On the 1912 edition it is shown as a roughly D-shaped enclosure, without hachures, whose linear SW side (L 33m) forms part of the boundary between Willowbrook and Doonally townlands. The curvilinear part of the monument (max. dim. 21m) lay NE of this in Willowbrook townland. The much smaller portion, in Doonally townland which is clearly visible on the 1837 map, is not marked on this map. The monument is visible from aerial photography (GSI G33-4). According to local information this monument was levelled in the 1940s (SMR (1989) file) and there are no remains of it now visible at ground level. In all probability this was a tree-ring. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 - SL015-006: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL015-006----. Situated on level wet ground in gently undulating pasture. Not shown on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a hachured roughly pentagonal area (dims. c.30m NE-SW; c.30m NW-SE) on the 1912 edition. The monument has been levelled and there are no visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 - SL015-007: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL015-007----. Situated on slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Depicted as a D-shaped enclosure whose linear side (L. c.21m) at SW forms part of the boundary between Willowbrook and Doonally townlands on the 1837 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The curvilinear portion (max. dim. c.22m) is shown to the NE of this in Willowbrook townland. On the 1912 this part of the enclosure is hachured. The site has been levelled and there are no visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Willowbrook. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Willowbrook, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1159, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1159.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/willowbrook.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/willowbrook.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/willowbrook.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Willowbrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bellanurly: https://everytownland.com/sligo/bellanurly.md - Doonally: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonally-200612.md - Doonally: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonally-200613.md - Drumkilsellagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/drumkilsellagh.md - Kilsellagh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/kilsellagh.md - Lisduff: https://everytownland.com/sligo/lisduff-200950.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/willowbrook - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/willowbrook