Leagh

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leagh, from 16 m² to 303,491 m² (30.35 ha, 74.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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 Oct 2025Conditional

  retain construction of a single storey extension to the rear elevation of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560659

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  the construction of a single storey extension to the rear elevation of my existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2560310

• 10 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct a Single-Storey Dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, splayed entrance and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360213

• 26 May 2023N/a

  construct a single-storey dwelling, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well, splayed entrance and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2360189

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

• LA032-015 Burial ground
  Description

  Reference to a burial ground called Killanure (the church of the yew), sometimes called Rath Killanure here (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 265). Described by Comerford as 'There are no traces of a church here, nor is there any local tradition of such having existed (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 265). In gently undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA032-016 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. In gently undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA032-052 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 55m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 30 December 2019

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

At the centre of the townland of Leagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2405 (ZIP).

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

Name

Leagh · Leamhach

Area

1,793,942 m² (179.39 ha, 443.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killeshin, and its townlands

Barony

Slievemargy

Electoral division

Graigue Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,330 people lived in 1,774 households in the Graigue Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 67% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyharmon, Cappanaboe, Cappanamrogue, Coolhenry, Harristown, Rathduff, Sleaty, Stanney

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.