# Darkvalley, Co. Leitrim: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killarga, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Gleann Dorcha.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 331,888 m² (33.19 ha, 82.01 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,377 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killarga, https://everytownland.com/leitrim/parish/killarga.md
- Barony: Drumahaire
- Electoral division: Cloonlogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Leitrim, https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/1165206
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 110510
- Centre: latitude 54.240561, longitude -8.23736 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Darkvalley, from 429 m² to 93,914 m² (9.39 ha, 23.21 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 606849: 93,914 m² (9.39 ha, 23.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/606849.md
- Parcel 602962: 91,932 m² (9.19 ha, 22.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/602962.md
- Parcel 621341: 59,089 m² (5.91 ha, 14.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/621341.md
- Parcel 4741795: 16,529 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4741795.md
- Parcel 624384: 14,586 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/624384.md
- Parcel 591894: 13,124 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/591894.md
- Parcel 610678: 11,630 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/610678.md
- Parcel 598295: 10,883 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/598295.md
- Parcel 624902: 10,080 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/624902.md
- Parcel 2420516: 5,679 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2420516.md
- Parcel 604411: 1,212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/604411.md
- Parcel 5793325: 429 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5793325.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Darkvalley in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC, site code 001976, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001976

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LE015-028: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE015-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE015-029----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/darkvalley.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/darkvalley.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/darkvalley.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Darkvalley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim: https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghameelta: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghameelta.md
- Lisgorman: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/lisgorman.md
- Sheskin: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/sheskin.md
- Socknalougher: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/socknalougher.md
- Socks: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/socks.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/darkvalley
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/leitrim/darkvalley