Anskert

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Anskert, from 384 m² to 170,758 m² (17.08 ha, 42.2 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 Anskert 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.

• 27 Jan 2026N/a

  I, Gabriele Milch-Skinner, intend to apply for permission for development at this site at Anskert, Co. Leitrim. The development will consist of the demolition of an existing entrance porch and the proposed construction of a single-storey extension with associated site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660025

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  construction of a forestry road and entrance onto the public road for the thinning/extraction of timber to existing forestry and associated site development works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17103

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 Anskert.

Recorded monuments

• LE036-041 Crannog
  Description

  Located c. 60m from the NW shore of Drumshanbo Lough, a shallow, tear-shaped lake (dims c. 850m N-S; c. 550m E-W) which is potentially much larger (dims c. 1.25km m N-S; c. 650m E-W) with extensive marshes to the N and S (OSAP). This crannog is not depicted on any OS map. It is an overgrown oval island (dims 18m E-W; 11m N-S; H 0.3m) with evidence of a collapsed palisade (L 12m) 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 7 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Anskert, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Anskert · Anscairt

Area

1,363,720 m² (136.37 ha, 336.98 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Cattan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

269 people lived in 101 households in the Cattan electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghmore, Annaghoney, Cornageeha, Drumgrania, Drumhass, Drumshanbo South

Placenames

Anskert 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.