# Diffin, Co. Leitrim: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cloone, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Duifin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 629,069 m² (62.91 ha, 155.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,000 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Cloone, https://everytownland.com/leitrim/parish/cloone.md - Barony: Carrigallen - Electoral division: Carrigallen West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Carrigallen West electoral division: 629 people in 218 households; 64% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Leitrim, https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30122 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 110573 - Centre: latitude 53.969062, longitude -7.702262 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Diffin, from 686 m² to 68,963 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 621884: 68,963 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/621884.md - Parcel 621878: 63,273 m² (6.33 ha, 15.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/621878.md - Parcel 601417: 62,366 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/601417.md - Parcel 600698: 58,894 m² (5.89 ha, 14.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/600698.md - Parcel 629752: 58,123 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/629752.md - Parcel 601418: 56,478 m² (5.65 ha, 13.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/601418.md - Parcel 623519: 53,685 m² (5.37 ha, 13.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/623519.md - Parcel 600700: 52,900 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/600700.md - Parcel 621879: 40,242 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/621879.md - Parcel 589817: 31,759 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/589817.md - Parcel 600699: 25,903 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/600699.md - Parcel 5171596: 16,453 m² (1.65 ha, 4.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5171596.md - Parcel 624201: 5,548 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/624201.md - Parcel 618792: 4,352 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/618792.md - Parcel 635903: 4,015 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/635903.md - Parcel 623518: 3,775 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/623518.md - Parcel 614002: 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/614002.md - Parcel 635091: 3,163 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/635091.md - Parcel 607871: 3,150 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/607871.md - Parcel 605961: 3,071 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/605961.md - Parcel 600701: 2,469 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/600701.md - Parcel 626228: 1,979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/626228.md - Parcel 606104: 1,610 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/606104.md - Parcel 4128576: 686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4128576.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Diffin 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) 1 application, newest first. - 28 Jun 2022, Leitrim County Council 22125: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LeitrimCC/AppFileRefDetails/22125/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Diffin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Diffin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Diffin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Diffin. - 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/diffin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/diffin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/diffin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Diffin 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) - Aghadruminshin: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghadruminshin.md - Aghavas: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghavas.md - Drumerkeane: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/drumerkeane.md - Drumgunny: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/drumgunny.md - Miltron Glebe: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/miltron-glebe.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. --- 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/diffin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/leitrim/diffin