Altakeeran

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altakeeran, from 3,921 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres) to 990,167 m² (99.02 ha, 244.68 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 Altakeeran 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Altakeeran 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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands SAC 000584
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands 000584

Recorded monuments

• LE021-010 Sweathouse
  Description

  Situated in the deep valley of a N-S stream on the E bank and c, 50m N of its confluence with another N-S stream. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map c. 100m from two abandoned houses to the W and c. 120m from an abandoned house to the N. No feature is visible at ground level in a coniferous forest. 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 Altakeeran.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Altakeeran · Allt an Chaorthainn

Area

3,392,171 m² (339.22 ha, 838.22 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Stralongford, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynameeltoge, Gubnaveagh, Seltanahunshin, Slievenakilla, Stralongford, Tullylackan Beg, Tullylackan More

Placenames

Altakeeran 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.