Leabaleaha

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leabaleaha, from 1,059 m² to 430,593 m² (43.06 ha, 106.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Leabaleaha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Leabaleaha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Leabaleaha.

Recorded monuments

• KE097-016 Souterrain
  Description

  This stone-built souterrain, not marked on the OS maps, is located in rough pasture at the head of the Ballinskelligs river valley. It is not now accessible but a small aperture between its roofing slabs enables a portion of a drystone-built passage to be viewed. This runs NNE-SSW and is at least 2m long, c. 8m wide, and c. .5m high. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 892. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE097-017001 Boulder-burial
  Description

  This boulder-burial and standing stone are located on the lower NNE slopes of Canuig mountain, at the head of the valley of the Ballinskelligs river. They are situated in pasture, on a fairly level terrace, and command a view of Ballinskelligs Bay. The wedge tomb at Coom (KE097-021----) is visible to ESE. The boulder-burial consists of a flat slab supported on four low stones. Two of these stones, those on the upslope side, are largely obscured by hillwashed material. The other two measure .48m x .38m x .15m and .52m x .47m x .13m. A pad-stone rests on the support stone at ESE, and measures .3m x .25m x .1m. Seven solution pits occur on the smooth upper surface of the cover-stone, whose longer axis lies NNE-SSW. The stone is raised approximately .15m above internal ground level, and its maximum dimensions are 1.97m x 1.57m. It averages .4m thick (Ó Nualláin 1978, 97). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 379. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE097-017002 Standing stone
  Description

  A tall standing stone (KE097-017002-), marked 'Gallaun' on the second edition of the OS maps, is aligned N-S and occurs 4m to N of the boulder-burial. The stone widens marginally as it rises and then tapers inwards toward the top. It stands 2.5m high and measures 1.08m x .3m at base. Lynch recorded an 'alignment' of stones adjacent to the boulder-burial at N, three of the stones protruding one foot (.3m) above the ground surface (1902b, 336). The central stone was a boulder of white quartz. Today the field is ploughed and only one prostrate stone, 1.35m long and located 1m NW of the boulder-burial, survives. It formerly stood upright (local information). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 379. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE097-017003 Stone row
  Description

  Lynch recorded an 'alignment' of stones adjacent to the boulder-burial at N, three of the stones protruding one foot (.3m) above the ground surface (1902b, 336). The central stone was a boulder of white quartz. Today the field is ploughed and only one prostrate stone, 1.35m long and located 1m NW of the boulder-burial, survives. It formerly stood upright (local information). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 379. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE097-018 Hut site
  Description

  At the head of the Ballinskelligs river valley, on gentle SE facing pasture, one field S of a standing stone and boulder-burial (KE097-017001-). A field clearance cairn now occupies the location of this possible hut, removed sometime during the 1960s. Lynch recorded the site as a 'circle of stones', 36 feet (10.97m) in diameter. Eleven stones were set on edge and the largest of these measured 9 feet 9 inches (2.97m) x 2 feet (.61m) x 1 foot (.3m) thick. One stone was located in the interior at N (1902b, 338). The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1447. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE097-019 Hut site
  Description

  At the head of the Ballinskelligs river valley, on gentle SE facing pasture and about 50m SSE of a levelled hut (KE097-018----). The site has been disturbed at NW by ploughing and at NE by the erection of a house. Recorded by Lynch as an ill-defined circle of stones containing much debris (1902b, 340), the site now survives as a pair of opposed uprights set .8m apart and averaging .4m high. A short, curved stretch of stony bank extends from both uprights and may originally have formed a circle. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1346. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE097-020 Hut site
  Description

  One field S of KE097-019----. A hut (KE097-020----) defined by a circular setting of intermittent uprights with a slight external bank. An infilled souterrain (KE097-020001-) is reputed to be located in its interior (local information). D: 4.2m. A roughly rectangular platform, 7.7m x 6.2m, immediately E of the hut, with an uneven and stony surface. This site is locally referred to as a calluragh burial ground (KE097-020001-). Lynch found a portion of a hand-quern in this sector (1902b, 339) The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1347. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE097-020001 Souterrain
  Description

  One field S of KE097-019----. A hut (KE097-020----) defined by a circular setting of intermittent uprights with a slight external bank. An infilled souterrain (KE097-020001-) is reputed to be located in its interior (local information). D: 4.2m. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1347. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE097-020002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  One field S of KE097-019----. A hut (KE097-020----) defined by a circular setting of intermittent uprights with a slight external bank. A roughly rectangular platform, 7.7m x 6.2m, immediately E of the hut, with an uneven and stony surface. This site is locally referred to as a calluragh burial ground (KE097-020001-). Lynch found a portion of a hand-quern in this sector (1902b, 339) The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1347. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Leabaleaha, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Leabaleaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Leabaleaha · Na Leadhba Liatha

Area

1,274,152 m² (127.42 ha, 314.85 acres)

Civil parish

Prior, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Ballinskelligs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

419 people lived in 172 households in the Ballinskelligs electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 55% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allaghee More, Ballinskelligs, Canuig, Coom, Killonecaha, Tooreen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Leabaleaha 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.