Cleighran

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cleighran, from 945 m² to 194,928 m² (19.49 ha, 48.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Cleighran 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 Cleighran 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cleighran.

Recorded monuments

• LE014-034 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a WNW-ESE ridge of rock outcrop in a low-lying position amongst drumlins. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 18.8m N-S; 17.7m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-7.4m; int. H 0.7m) with some facing-stones visible. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.1m) at SSE. A sunken roadway (Wth 3.2m) approaches from the S, and the remains of fields with lazy-beds and a rectangular enclosure (dims. 17m E-W; 9m N-S) lie to the W. Cashel (LE014-035----) is c. 160m to the 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

• LE014-035 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a gentle W-facing slope with a small SW-NE stream c. 130m to the NW. This is an overgrown circular platform (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m at S to 1.2-1.4m at N) surmounted by a stone spread (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.2-0.8m), sometimes with a berm (Wth up to 2.7m) between the outer edge of the spread and the top of the scarp. There are entrance gaps at NNE (Wth 2.2m) and at E (Wth 2.2m). Cashel (LE014-034----) is c. 160m to the W. 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

• LE014-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just E of the summit of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam.17m N-S; 16.3m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 1.5-2.5m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m), and a slight external fosse (Wth of base 2.5-3.5m) WSW-NW. There are entrance gaps at E (Wth 2.4m) and W (Wth 1.5m) and the perimeter is partly incorporated into a field bank E-SSE. 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

• LE014-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in reclaimed pasture towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims. 36m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.3-0.6m). The SE quadrant is damaged by slight quarrying, and there is no identifiable original entrance. 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 Cleighran.

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 Cleighran, 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 Cleighran.

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

Name

Cleighran · An Cloichreán

Area

994,150 m² (99.42 ha, 245.66 acres)

Civil parish

Killanummery, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Killanummery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 138 households in the Killanummery electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcrin, Drumduff, Drumrane, Lavally (Co. Sligo), Rathbaun, Rathgeean (Co. Sligo)

Placenames

Cleighran 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.