Legaginny
Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 75 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 4,261 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legaginny, from 352 m² to 95,901 m² (9.59 ha, 23.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
No zone of a development plan covers Legaginny 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
22 May 2026N/a
to retain and continue alterations to existing church grounds for the purposes of forming new vehicular entrance to the rear of existing church building, construct new entrance walls and piers and carry out associated site and ancillary works (protected structure/listed building
Retention · Cavan County Council, 2617
4 Feb 2026Conditional
for development works consisting of the following: Alterations to the existing dwelling, to include; Removal of the existing back door on the north-east elevation. Amendments to window openings on the north-west and south-west elevations. Replacement of the existing flat roof with a pitched roof to the rear two-storey section of the dwelling. Removal of two chimneys and internal reconfiguration of the dwelling. Removal of external dash finish from original dwelling to expose the original natural stonework. Demolition of derelict existing attached outbuildings located to the south-west of the existing dwelling and the proposed construction of a new single-storey extension comprising of a kitchen/dining/living area, rear hall, boot room, shower room, utility room, and pantry. Installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, connection to existing services, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660049
26 Jan 2026N/a
for alterations to the existing dwelling, to include; Removal of the existing back door on the north-east elevation. Amendments to window openings on the north-west and south-west elevations. Replacement of the existing flat roof with a pitched roof to the rear two-storey section of the dwelling. Removal of two chimneys and internal reconfiguration of the dwelling. Removal of external dash finish from original dwelling to expose the original natural stonework. Demolition of derelict existing attached outbuildings located to the south-west of the existing dwelling and the proposed construction of a new single-storey extension comprising of a kitchen/dining/living area, rear hall, boot room, shower room, utility room, and pantry. Installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, connection to existing services, and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660028
1 Jun 2022Conditional
is sought to alter the site boundary granted Pl. Ref no 21/582 and all associated and ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 22217
22 Sept 2021Conditional
to renovate & erect fully serviced two storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling with, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21582
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 Legaginny.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legaginny.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legaginny.
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 high, moderately high, 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 Legaginny.
- 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 Legaginny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Legaginny
- Area
- 750,485 m² (75.05 ha, 185.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Drumcarban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcarban electoral division: 636 people in 226 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumcarban, Garrymore, Lackan Lower, Legaweel, Pottahee
- Placenames
- Legaginny 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.