Leckaneen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leckaneen, from 176 m² to 288,244 m² (28.82 ha, 71.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Leckaneen 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.

• 18 Feb 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4483

• 24 Jul 2007Conditional

  Dormer dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9817

• 20 Jul 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/9731

• 21 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8872

• 15 Mar 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/6092

• 9 Feb 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/4929

• 6 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5308

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 the townland of Leckaneen.

Recorded monuments

• CO060-161 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (diam. 11m) defined by fosse (D 1m; Wth 4m) with outer earthen bank (H 1.1m). Bank partially overgrown with bushes and briars. Part of centre of interior and NE quadrant excavated by Jane O'Shaughnessy (1991, 17-8). Trench opened revealed arc (Wth 0.5m), off-centre to NE, formed by 'large, haphazardly-set stones', the full extent of which lay beyond edge of excavation but 'it appeared to form subcircular enclosure, diam. 4.5m' (ibid., 17). No artefacts or evidence for burial found. Section cut through fosse and bank to E. Fosse originally 3m in width and 1.4m deep; primary core of bank appeared to be constucted 2.5m outside edge of fosse. Circular hearth-like feature (diam. 0.5m) sealed under outer edge of bank consisting of 'shallow concentration of small, angular apparently heat-shattered stones set in a matrix of dark brown charcoal-rich soil (ibid., 18). Charcoal from hearth-like feature yielded radiocarbon date (UB 3620) 3175+/-46 BP (pers. comm. Jane O'Shaughnessy). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO061-083 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough grazing, on N-facing slope. Stone (H 1.05m; 1m x 0.5m) is irregular in plan, long axis NW-SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO061-084 Stone circle - five-stone
  Description

  Near head of shallow valley opening to SE. This circle was represented by four prostrate slabs and W side stone, indicating diameter of c. 3.5m. Slabs were 1.1m to 1.7m X 0.9m to 1m and 0.2m to 0.3m T; sidestone is 1m L; 0.5m T and 1.2m H. A prostrate slab 7m to E was considered to be a possible fallen standing stone. The remains of this monument were removed by 2008 (SMR File). (O Nualláin 1984a, 36, no. 66; Power et al. 1997, no. 6473) Revised by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 10 November 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 Leckaneen.

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.

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

Name

Leckaneen · An Leacainín

Area

590,930 m² (59.09 ha, 146.02 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabulloge, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Clonmoyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonmoyle electoral division: 608 people in 205 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavrin, Dromatimore, Gortacroghig, Knockrour, Woodfield

Placenames

Leckaneen 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.