Leitra

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitra, from 152 m² to 519,910 m² (51.99 ha, 128.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Leitra 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.

• 1 Nov 2018Unconditional

  to extend the appropriate period of Planning Permission P13/696 to construct a centre for the provision of walking tours to the members of the public

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 18875

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL010-079 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on an E-facing slope in an area of exposed karst with some hazel scrub. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Indicated by a solid line on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a small enclosure (int. diam. 15m) of apparently modern construction defined by drystone wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 22 March 2016

• CL010-145 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland c. 145m to the NW of a stream and c. 260m to the SSW of Castle Lough. Identified by Tom Coffey in 1994 (SMR file). This partly preserved fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered, crescent-shaped mound (3.1m N-S; 2m E-W; H 0.35-0.5m) of burnt stone, ash and clay which is open to the NW. A slight subcircular hollow (diam. 1.5m; D 0.2m) at the W may indicate the probable original extent of the mound. A later wall lies c. 7m to the S. There is another fulacht fia (CL010-146----) c. 100m to the SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 31 May 2023

• CL010-146 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying damp pastureland on the NW side of a small stream which flows SW from Castle Lough. Listed as ‘Fulachta fiadh’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of a map annotation by Tom Coffey (1994, SMR file), where two fulachtaí fia are marked. This fulacht fia comprises a linear grass-covered mound (10m NNE-SSW; max. 4m WNW-ESE; max. H 0.8m at E; min. H 0.25m at W) of burnt stone and earth which curves NW at its SSW end. There is a large white stone at the centre of the E edge. Holly bushes grow on the NNE edge. A later NE-SW wall overlies the SW end. There is another fulacht fia (CL010-145----) c. 100m to the NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 7 June 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leitra.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Leitra, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leitra.

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.

No address of the register names Leitra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Leitra

Area

2,052,864 m² (205.29 ha, 507.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Boston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

358 people lived in 141 households in the Boston electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownagoul, Cooloorta, Glenquin, Knockans Lower, Turloughmore

Placenames

Leitra 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.