Annagh Upper
Annagh Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Drumreilly, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is An tEanach Uachtarach.
- Area
- 67.8 ha
- 168 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 3,513 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annagh Upper, from 263 m² to 92,047 m² (9.2 ha, 22.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Annagh Upper 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
8 Nov 2023Conditional
renovate and extend existing single storey dwelling house to include the construction of a single storey extension to the North West elevation of the existing dwelling house. Provide mechanical effluent treatment unit and percolation area, improvements to existing entrance, new access road, including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360135
28 Jun 2023Conditional
(1). construct a dry bedded agricultural storage shed with concrete apron. (2). To extend existing agricultural storage shed to provide dry bedding area to the North Western elevation and provide roof over existing yard to the South Eastern elevation. Development to include improvements to existing agricultural entrance including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360034
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Annagh Upper.
Recorded monuments
- LE018-018 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on top of a drumlin c. 180m S of a loop on an E-W section of the River Shannon. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (int. dims 31m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2-3m) with some bushes where facing-stones are intermittently visible. A field wall on top of it has collapsed, and both features have been removed at E. 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
- LE018-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 180m from loops on an E-W section of the River Shannon. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) with some bushes and a slight external fosse (Wth of base 2-2.5m) visible as a band of rushes. There is an entrance, visible as a slight dip in the perimeter, at SE. The monument is bisected by an old N-S field drain, and slightly truncated by an E-W field bank at S. 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
- LE018-053 Sweathouse
Description
Located towards the top of a gentle SE-facing slope near a house. A circular mound (diam. 4.15m; H 1.4-2.6m) contains a circular chamber (int. diam. 2.2m) with a corbelled roof (H 1.8m) and an entrance (Wth 0.7m; H 1.1m; L 1.1m) at SE. (Weir 1980, 172) 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
- LE018-069 Sweathouse
Description
Located on a N-facing slope and immediately adjacent to an abandoned farmhouse. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level in an overgrown area. 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 Annagh Upper.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Annagh Upper, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Annagh Upper.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Annagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Annagh Upper · An tEanach Uachtarach
- Area
- 678,348 m² (67.83 ha, 167.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumreilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Yugan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 238 people lived in 104 households in the Yugan electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Canbeg, Cornageeha, Derrinwillin, Dowra (Co. Cavan), Eden, Kilduff Lower (Co. Cavan), Kilduff Middle (Co. Cavan)
- Placenames
- Annagh Upper 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.