Leath East
Townland in the civil parish of Ratass, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry; in Irish An Liath Thoir
- Area
- 294.7 ha
- 728 acres
- Land parcels
- 171
- registered freehold, median 3,080 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
171 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leath East, from 17 m² to 290,671 m² (29.07 ha, 71.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Leath East 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
19 Sept 2023Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCT A TRADITIONAL STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, PART ONE AND HALF STOREY AND PART SINGLE STOREY DESIGN.(B) CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA (D) CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231006
5 Dec 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221260
12 Sept 2022Refused
CONSTRUCT A TRADITIONAL STYLE DWELLING HOUSE PART ONE AND HALF STOREY AND PART SINGLE STOREY DESIGN, CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALL A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22962
22 Dec 2021Conditional
REFURBISH AND EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING LEAN-TO EXTENSION. DEMOLISH EXISTING OLD SHED AND OUTBUILDINGS, DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SOAKAWAY AND REPLACE WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER, ERECT A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT ON MY SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211507
10 Dec 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211425
5 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO THE NORTH SIDE (REAR) OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21222
25 Jun 2018Conditional
UPGRADE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK TO A TRICEL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SANDCEL SAND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE LOCATED
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18626
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 Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- KE021-128 Enclosure
Description
Situated on boggy land, this circular enclosure is marked on the 1841-42 OS map. It does not appear on the 1898 OS map, and no trace survives 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. 1092. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leath East.
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, 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 Leath East.
- 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 Leath East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Leath East · An Liath Thoir
- Area
- 2,947,339 m² (294.73 ha, 728.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ratass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Ratass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ratass electoral division: 1,080 people in 403 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintobeenig, Knockbrack West, Knocknacaska, Lacka More, Leath West, Tooreen, Tursillagh
- Placenames
- Leath East 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.