Darkvalley

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Darkvalley, from 429 m² to 93,914 m² (9.39 ha, 23.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Darkvalley 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 Darkvalley 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: Lough Gill SAC 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE015-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Located towards the top of a N-facing slope. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) described as a 'fort' on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a scrub-covered triangular area with the apex at SW (dims 17m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.9m) at NE and by field banks at S and NW. It may be a fragment of a rath and it remains unplanted in a coniferous forest. The rath (LE015-029----) is c. 120m 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

• LE015-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of a N-facing slope. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 23.8m E-W; 22.7m N-S) defined by a low, grass-covered scarp (H 0.8m) SW-N-E and by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.4m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) with some bushes elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 3m) is visible as a band of rushes NW-E-SW and the entrance (Wth 3m) is at E. There is a small, grass-covered spoil mound (diam. 7m; max. H 0.6m) at the centre and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank S-W. It remains unplanted 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 Darkvalley.

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 Darkvalley, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Darkvalley · An Gleann Dorcha

Area

331,888 m² (33.19 ha, 82.01 acres)

Civil parish

Killarga, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Cloonlogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

310 people lived in 128 households in the Cloonlogher electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghameelta, Lisgorman, Sheskin, Socknalougher, Socks

Placenames

Darkvalley 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.