Leighcloon

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leighcloon, from 176 m² to 493,961 m² (49.4 ha, 122.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Leighcloon 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.

• 16 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention of extension to cattle house and permission for retention of slatted slurry tank, permission to demolish existing milking parlour, dairy, plant room and open soiled water tank, permission to construct a replacement milking parlour, dairy, office, plant room, roofed cattle handling yard, two no. roofed cattle holding yards, slatted soiled water tank, concrete cow path, feed storage bin, rainwater harvesting tank and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/245

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  Removal of extension, construction of new extension to dwelling and proposed new parking area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/635

• 20 Jul 2023Conditional

  Construct a cattle underpass under public road, concrete approach ramps and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/405

• 29 Jun 2015Conditional

  Permission to demoilsh existing machinery shed, calf house, hay shed and dry store, permission to construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/363

• 27 Jan 2014Conditional

  Construct domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/54

• 14 Jan 2014Incompleted application

  Construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/27

• 11 Dec 2009Conditional

  Construction of a new site entrance and parking area, alterations and extensions to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2163

• 25 May 2007Conditional

  Conservatory extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1371

• 28 Mar 2007Withdrawn

  Single dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment and associated works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/867

• 2 Mar 2007Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/577

• 10 Nov 2006Conditional

  (A) Construct extension to existing milking parlour (B) demolish of existing cubicle house and part demolition of second cubicle house (C) Construction of new cattle house with slatted tanks, cubicle beds and easy feed passage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2353

• 2 Oct 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/2003

• 10 Jul 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1308

• 10 Nov 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5583

• 10 Jun 2002Conditional

  Demolition of outbuildings and construction of guest sleeping accommodation ancillary to main dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/2429

• 12 Apr 2001Conditional

  Construction of new boundary wall and boathouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2065

• 4 Dec 2000Conditional

  Construction of porch extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7279

• 22 Jun 2000Conditional

  Alterations to dwelling including raising of roof

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3770

• 28 Apr 2000Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2540

• 24 Nov 1999Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/6395

• 25 Jun 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/3458

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: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101

Recorded monuments

• CO140-065 Metalworking site
  Description

  In a garden surrounded by bushes and trees, on a W-facing sloping bank, beside the E bank of the estuary of the Roaringwater River. The remains of the ironworking are evident as an overgrown bank (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.15m) of earth and stone enclosing a roughly circular area (diam. c. 3.5m) which probably represents the upper portion of the smelting chamber. This chamber area is full of garden debris. Waste from the smelting process, in the form of slag and vitrified stone, can be found in the ground at the foot of the slope immediately to the W. The ground is slightly higher to the E, probably representing the area from which the smelting chamber would have been charged. There is an old pier and wall along the E side of the tidal estuary immediately to W. McCracken (1957, 128) refers to an ironworks in the Aghadown area which was 'worked by the Whites'. However, as there is no local knowledge of ironworks in the Aghadown area, it is suggested locally that these ironworks at Leighcloon may have been the ones that McCracken was referring to. The Whites appear to have operated in the area during the second half of the 17th century. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO140-074 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  This cupmarked stone was originally located in the ground beside a small house on the E bank of the estuary of Roaringwater River. According to local information, the stone (0.2m x 0.2m x 0.1m) had a cupmark (diam. c. 0.08m) on one side and a double cupmark (diams.: c. 0.05m and c. 0.03m), arranged in a dumb-bell fashion, on the other side. The present location of this cupmarked stone is unknown. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

• Roaringwater Quay, quay/wharf, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Section of rubble limestone quay walls to east and west banks of Roaringwater River, built c.1820, with coping slabs. Rectangular-plan harbours (east bank) with flight of steps (south harbour) and stone mooring (north harbour).

• Building misc, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former maritime related building, built c.1930, now in use as house. Recent extension to rear (east). Pitched corrugated-iron roof with metal rainwater goods, timber bargeboards and finials. Corrugated iron walls. Square-headed openings with three-over-three timber sliding sash windows, timber sills and timber lintels. Square-headed opening to entrance with timber battened door and flight of steps.

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 10 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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Leighcloon · Liathchluain

Area

833,265 m² (83.33 ha, 205.9 acres)

Civil parish

Aghadown, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Aghadown South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghadown South electoral division: 623 people in 252 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hollyhill, Kilcoe, Laheratanvally, Paddock

Placenames

Leighcloon 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.