Leiter
Townland in the civil parish of Enniskeen, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan
Parcel 458998
- Area
- 139,122 m² (13.91 ha, 34.38 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 299 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Leiter
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 255.2 ha
- 631 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 16,837 m² (1.68 ha, 4.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leiter, from 191 m² to 162,505 m² (16.25 ha, 40.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Leiter 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
18 Mar 2026N/a
to: a) Retain 3 no. structures associated with the manufacture of precast concrete units, b) Permission is sought to construct 2 no. extensions to existing precast concrete manufacturing building, c) Permission is sought to construct a new office building, d) Connect all services to existing infrastructure on site, e) Together with all associated site works including relocation of existing aggregate storage bays- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660122
31 Jul 2025Conditional
for (a) Demolition of existing derelict cottage with (b) Constructuion of new single storey replacement dwelling (c) New wwts to en12566-3 standard as per epa cop 221 and (d) Removal of road side hedge, form new entrance pier and road side wall, c/w associate site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560434
14 Jun 2025Conditional
to construct a single storey extension, (Proposed floor area 43 Msq) to the side and rear of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560305
18 Dec 2020Conditional
construct single storey detached dwelling, detached garage, wastewater system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20582
22 Sept 2020Conditional
for the construction of a lean-to agricultural meal storage shed, a double walled silage base with concrete aprons, an underground effluent storage tank, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 20423
10 Aug 2020Conditional
construct livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20335
3 Apr 2019Conditional
for construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank, a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 19128
29 Mar 2019N/a
to construct a storey and a half style detached, 3 bedroom dwelling house, install proprietary waste-water treatment system and percolation area, upgrade existing entrance onto public road and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19120
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 Leiter.
Recorded monuments
- CV035-046 Designed landscape feature
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leiter.
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 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 Leiter.
- 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 Leiter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Leiter
- Area
- 2,552,114 m² (255.21 ha, 630.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Enniskeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Lisagoan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lisagoan electoral division: 414 people in 136 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bracklin, Collops, Cordoagh, Cornasaus, Corrycholman, Taghart South
- Placenames
- Leiter 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.