Aghaleague

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghaleague, from 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 213,658 m² (21.37 ha, 52.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Aghaleague 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.

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  To carry out the following alterations to an existing dwelling house (1) Renovate existing two-storey dwelling house comprising of alterations to elevations, increasing roof level, internal fit-out works, (2) Construct new two-storey extension to front, side & rear, (3) Upgrade existing septic tank to new mechanical wastewater treatment system & percolation area. Together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560223

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  construct (a) a new dry bedded cattle shed facilitated by a effluent storage tank and, (b) a new soiled water storage tank, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18121

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 Aghaleague.

Recorded monuments

• LE026-011 Crannog
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a narrow N-S bay (dims c. 450m N-S; c. 50-100m E-W) at the SE angle of Garadice Lough. A small oval island (dims c. 20m NW-SE; c. 10m NE-SW) is depicted only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This area is silted up on the revised 1944 edition of the map and it is now an inaccessible clump of trees attached to the mainland by a reed-swamp. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE026-026 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A stone corbel (dims 0.26m x 0.25m; L c. 0.4m) decorated with a carved head is now kept at a private house. The original provenance is unknown but it is possibly from Drumreilly church (LE025-058001-). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Aghaleague with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Aghaleague · Achadh Liag

Area

761,749 m² (76.17 ha, 188.23 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Newtowngore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newtowngore electoral division: 299 people in 118 households; 78% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickateane, Cloonboygher, Derrylahan, Keelrin, Mullyaster

Placenames

Aghaleague 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.