Leany
Leany is a townland in the civil parish of Moyacomb, barony of St. Mullin's Upper, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Liaithinn.
- Area
- 348.8 ha
- 862 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 21,185 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leany, from 517 m² to 271,075 m² (27.11 ha, 66.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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
No zone of a development plan covers Leany 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Jul 2026Conditional
6 no Existing Silos as constructed. (ii) Full planning permission to increase the height of part of the existing animal feed processing area to match the height of the adjacent unit, together with all associated site development works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2660228
10 Dec 2025Conditional
to construct an extension to existing Industrial Storage Unit consisting of a covered loading area together with all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560405
3 Sept 2025Conditional
construct 1) slatted cattle shed and 2) an extension to existing machinery shed in existing farmyard and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2529
20 Aug 2025N/a
construct 1) slatted cattle shed and 2) an extension to existing machinery shed in existing farmyard and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2527
9 Jan 2024N/a
to erect 4 no Grain Silos and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460003
28 Nov 2023Conditional
2 no Portal Frame Storage Units as constructed and a concrete yard as constructed. Full Planning Permission for the construction of an additional portal frame storage unit, new concrete yard and all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2360278
21 Feb 2022Conditional
to construct 2 no. silage pits, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2259
3 Dec 2021Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, on-site wastewater treatment system, private well, new splayed entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21477
17 Sept 2019Conditional
as constructed portal frame building and all associated site development works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 19366
22 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a slatted beef shed and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1968
6 Apr 2018Conditional
A Dwelling House, garage, septic tank and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18114
6 Mar 2018N/a
Full Planning Permission for a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1871
20 Oct 2017Conditional
The demolition of an existing Sow house building and the erection of a replacement Modern Sow house building in its place, along with the erection of a second weaner house building and all associated site works. the application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) All works and associated site works take place within the curtilage of an existing Pig unit.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17302
23 Feb 2017N/a
Permission for the demolition of an existing piggery building and the erection of two replacement piggery buildings in its place. The erection of a third piggery building. The erection of 2 new feed silos and the relocation of two existing feed silos along with all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 1746
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 Leany.
Recorded monuments
- CW014-008 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Large circular earthen mound (H 3m; base diam. 20m) small portion of what may be drystone walling (three courses of small granite boulders) visible in eroded W side. Appears superficially to be one side of splayed entrance feature.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leany.
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 Leany, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leany.
- 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 Leany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Leany · Liaithinn
- Area
- 3,487,888 m² (348.79 ha, 861.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyacomb, and its townlands
- Barony
- St. Mullin's Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 599 people lived in 210 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynavortha (Co. Wicklow), Craans, Money Lower (Co. Wicklow), Money Upper (Co. Wicklow), Newstown, Orchard, Woodlands
- Placenames
- Leany 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.