Leagh

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leagh, from 108 m² to 102,353 m² (10.24 ha, 25.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Leagh 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.

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  (1) Construct a vehicle entrance (2) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460562

• 17 Apr 2023Conditional

  (A) EXTEND ONE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, (B) TO BUILD A PRIVATE STOREY AND A HALF TYPE EXTENSION AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23417

• 26 Oct 2022Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WHICH WILL BE SERVED BY A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, (B) A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221110

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 Leagh.

Recorded monuments

• KE009-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 28.6m N-S, 29.3m E-W This circular univallate rath is enclosed by an earth and stone bank, on average 6.9m wide and rising to a maximum of 2m externally and 1.3m above the interior. Two main gaps to the NW and SE, measuring 2.4m and 2.2m respectively, provide access to the interior. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land. In the W sector is a semi-circular raised area, .7m high, curving in towards the bank. About 3m to the E of this is a small depression, 2.3m x 1.6m, and 2.4m NE of this is another depression, 1.8m x 2m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 359. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-033001 Souterrain
  Description

  Circular univallate rath KE009-033---- is enclosed by an earth and stone bank, on average 6.9m wide and rising to a maximum of 2m externally and 1.3m above the interior. The interior is at a higher level than the surrounding land. In the W sector is a semi-circular raised area, .7m high, curving in towards the bank. About 3m to the E of this is a small depression, 2.3m x 1.6m, and 2.4m NE of this is another depression, 1.8m x 2m. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 359. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Lissatrowel/Lios an tSruthaill (ringfort of the stream). This site is marked on the 1841-42 and 1915-16 OS maps as a circular enclosure. No surface trace of this site survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 360. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked on the 1841-42 and 1915-16 OS maps as a circular enclosure, this site can also be picked up as a crop mark on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977). No trace of this site can be seen today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 361. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

• KE009-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diameter 21m N-S, 22m E-W Situated in boggy land, this bivallate rath consists of a circular raised area 1m high, which is enclosed for the most part by a 7m-11m wide fosse. The outer bank encloses the inner area from the W through N to E; it cannot be distinguished elsewhere. The outer bank is c 7m wide and rises to .6m-1m above the fosse and c 1.8m above the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 362. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Leagh.

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

Name

Leagh · Na Léitheanna

Area

771,596 m² (77.16 ha, 190.67 acres)

Civil parish

Rattoo, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmaurice

Electoral division

Ballyduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyduff electoral division: 846 people in 333 households; 79% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcullen, Ardcullen-Marshes, Ballyhorgan, Knoppoge North, Knoppoge South, Lacka East, Leagh-Marshes, Sheepwalk

Placenames

Leagh 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.