Leitrim

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim, from 43 m² to 426,139 m² (42.61 ha, 105.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Leitrim 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 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560589

• 14 Dec 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF (A) SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (B) EQUIPMENT STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351921

• 9 Nov 2023N/a

  (A) ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, (B) ERECTION OF AN EQUIPMENT STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351708

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 02/4273 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351475

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850114

• 26 Jan 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850077

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  (A) COMPLETION OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED DWELLING HOUSE (REF: 06/71223) (B) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELLING AND (C) ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751096

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 Leitrim.

Recorded monuments

• DG012-029 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A hollow in a stream forms the holy well dedicated to St. Ultan. The well, which has been modernised, has a 19th century cross placed on top of it. The socket in which this is set could be considerably older. E of the well is a stone slab, .31m wide x .4m high, marked as a penitential station on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps, but known locally as the 'cross' (DG012-029001-) and marked on the current edition of the six-inch map as 'St. Ultain's Cross. It is possibly part of a stone cross known to have been destroyed here in the 19th century. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'In the townland of Leitrim, parish of Culdaff, about eighty yards from Falmore N. S., is St. Ultan's Holy Well. It is not a well proper but a hollow in a stream at the foot of a small waterfall about eight feet high. Delicate children are brought there or the turus is made for them by their mother or nearest relative. Starting at the well the pilgrim says five paters and aves while making a circle up and over the stream and round the old cross and ending with the creed while kneeling at the well. Then three times water is lifted out of the well and thrown against the cataract. More water is taken away for the cure. The turus is now made anytime, but formerly it was done on the first Monday of each quarter, and repeated twice during the quarter. It is locally believed that St. Ultan lived there for a time. A large stone cross has been erected over the well having on one side the inscription : " St. Ultan " and on the other: " Erected by J. S. Nicholson, Esq., Anno Domine 1860." He was the local landlord. On the other side of the well is a small rude cross, but it is recognised as " the Cross." It is probably a fragment of the large cross which Sheriff Carey ordered to have broken over a hundred years ago. A Catholic named Donaghy did the breaking for Carey. but he made many pilgrimages afterwards to Lough Derg to atone for this sacrilege. Formerly the bushes around used to be festooned with rags, but this custom has been dropped' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 161). (Ó Muirgheasa no. 106) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

• DG012-029001 Cross
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG012-034 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 26.8m. A subcircular area, defined by a partially collapsed stone wall about .75m wide. The wall is composed of stone facings with a rubble fill and is not more than .5m high. There are no clearly defined entrance or internal features but there are small subcircular structures either incorporated into the wall collapse on the outside, or free-standing beyond the wall. It is situated in rough mountain terrain, on a ridge running E-W in a commanding position on all but the NE sides. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Leitrim House, farm house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850, with single-bay single-storey gabled entrance porch, and two-bay two-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystack to north and yellow-brick on stretcher-bond chimneystacks with cogging stringcourses to south, rendered eaves course with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling with articulated block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with articulated block-and-start quoin surrounds, six-over-three and one-over-one horned timber sash windows, and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with articulated block-and-start quoin surround and timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with complex of outbuildings to south. Single-storey outbuildings immediately to south of house dated 1895 comprising of pitched slate roof, hipped to north end, with whitewashed rubble walls. Complex of rubble walls and piers to east and north-east of house.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with bed outshot and modern single-storey extension to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping to gables, and smooth rendered eaves course. flat-roof to rear extension. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surrounds and uPVC windows and painted concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with rendered patent surround and replacement door. Attached single-storey outbuilding to east comprising of smooth rendered random rubble walls. Attached outbuilding to east comprising of mono-pitch corrugated metal roof and smooth rendered walls. Fronts directly onto road with concrete yard surrounding.

• Falmore House, outbuilding, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey gabled outbuilding and coach house to Falmore House (see 40901128), built c. 1850, with ashlar bellcote to south gable, and with single-storey lean-to extension to east. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar gable coping and stringcourse to south gable forming pediment. Roughcast rendered walls with large, tooled limestone block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds, with assortment timber sash windows and with ashlar stone sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber doors. Set within grounds of Falmore House to north-east of main house.

• Falmore House, country house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1850, L-shaped on plan, with recessed bay and single-storey entrance porch to west bay; two-bay two-storey cat-slide return to rear, and modern two-bay two-storey extension to east. Hipped slate roofs with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks with clayware pots, overhanging eaves with timber brackets to smooth rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater-goods. Pitched fibre-cement tiled roof to extension. Concrete pantile roof to entrance porch. smooth rendered walls with plinth, limestone-plaque over doorway inscribed ERECTED BY J STEELE-NICHOLSON 1850. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six horned timber sash windows; one-over-one over doorway and four-over-two to rear, ashlar stone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door with cast-iron framed tracery sidelight. Set within own grounds with mature woodland with two-storey outbuilding (possible icehouse) to north-east. Driveway to south-east with wrought-iron hooped gates mounted on cast-iron piers flanked by smooth rendered walls. Complex of rubble walls to west with rubble stone garden building.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Leitrim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Leitrim

Area

3,265,964 m² (326.6 ha, 807.04 acres)

Civil parish

Culdaff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Turmone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Turmone electoral division: 316 people in 120 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycharry, Carrowblagh, Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Carrowmenagh, Drumaville, Tiryrone

Placenames

Leitrim 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.