Leitrim More
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish Liatroim Mór
- Area
- 37.5 ha
- 93 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 40,258 m² (4.03 ha, 9.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim More, from 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres) to 93,967 m² (9.4 ha, 23.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Leitrim More 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
24 Apr 2009Conditional
Demolition of existing derelict dwelling house, construction of new dwelling house, construction of detached domestic garage, installation of mini treatment plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/467
3 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Demolition of existing derelict dwellinghouse, construction of new dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, installation of mini treatment plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/375
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 Leitrim More.
Recorded monuments
- CO103-012 Anomalous stone group
Description
On break in SSW-facing slope overlooking Bantry Bay. Low earthen mound (5.2m N-S; 4.6m E-W) surrounded by five stones. On W side of mound, three upright stones lean heavily; tallest stone (H 2.1m; 1.5m x 0.4m) to N. Two prostrate stones on E side of mound. Two standing stones 3.6m to W of mound; long axes NE-SW (H 1.05m; 0.9m x 0.8m: H 0.8m; 0.5m x 0.42m). (O'Brien 1970, 13). 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
- CO103-013 Standing stone
Description
On lower S slopes of Caha Mountains with commanding view to SW over Bantry Bay; new cowshed beside stone. Subrectangular stone aligned NE-SW (H 1.7m; 0.7m x 0.45m). 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leitrim More.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leitrim More.
- 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 Leitrim More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Leitrim More · Liatroim Mór
- Area
- 375,230 m² (37.52 ha, 92.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Adrigole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Adrigole electoral division: 497 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahown, Crooha East, Keeltrasna, Leitrim Beg, Ulusker
- Placenames
- Leitrim More 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.