Leahill

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leahill, from 24 m² to 844,603 m² (84.46 ha, 208.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Leahill 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.

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission for the following: (i) Retention of detached domestic garage, (ii) Permission for Construction of extension to garage to be used as a study, ancillary in use to dwelling house, (iii) Permission for construction of detached boat house and (iv) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/192

• 28 Apr 2011Conditional

  Construction of a 3 bedroom 2 storey (first floor within roof space) dwelling, mechanical effluent system, boiler house and garage, and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/249

• 29 Jul 2010Refused

  Construction of 3 bedroom single storey dwelling, mechanical effluent treatment system, private bore well, boiler house and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/539

• 21 Apr 2009Conditional

  Construction of 3 bedroom 2 storey dwelling, mechanical effluent treatment system, private borewell and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/452

• 19 Mar 2009Incompleted application

  Construction of 3 bedroom 2 storey dwelling, mechanical effluent treatment system, private borewell and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/303

• 2 Feb 2007Withdrawn

  Construction of dwelling, installation of mini-treatment plant system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/270

• 2 Jan 2007Incompleted application

  Dwelling, installation of mini-treatment plant system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/31

• 21 Nov 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8549

• 13 Dec 2004Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9117

• 23 Dec 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & biocycle waste water treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/7205

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Leahill Bog NHA 002417

Recorded monuments

• CO104-014 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On top of a Knocknacarrin Hill. Subcircular cairn (H 3m; 15.2m E-W; 21.5m N-S) of stones and boulders. (O'Brien 1970, 12). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO104-014001 Rock art
  Description

  Faint chevron-like design inscribed on a flat slab surface on the east side of a hilltop cairn (C0104-014----) which situated on a ridge overlooking Bantry Bay. The slab face into the interior. Just above it on the same surface is another smaller faint inscription resembling a 'sideways' arrow shape. Compiled by: David Myler and Matt Kelleher Date of upload/revision: 31 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Leahill, 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 Leahill.

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 Leahill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Leahill · Liathchoill

Area

1,546,546 m² (154.65 ha, 382.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Adrigole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

497 people lived in 204 households in the Adrigole electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curragh East, Derreenacarrin, Derrylough

Placenames

Leahill 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.