Leagh-Marshes
Townland in the civil parish of Rattoo, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Currach na Léitheanna
- Area
- 35.9 ha
- 89 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 177,805 m² (17.78 ha, 43.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leagh-Marshes, from 162,177 m² (16.22 ha, 40.07 acres) to 193,433 m² (19.34 ha, 47.8 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 Leagh-Marshes 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
No planning application touches the townland of Leagh-Marshes 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cashen River Estuary 001340
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leagh-Marshes.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leagh-Marshes.
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 20 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.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Leagh-Marshes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Leagh-Marshes · Currach na Léitheanna
- Area
- 359,145 m² (35.91 ha, 88.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rattoo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ballyduff, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcullen-Marshes, Ballyhorgan, Ballyhorgan-Marshes, Leagh
- Placenames
- Leagh-Marshes on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.