Diffreen

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Diffreen, from 114 m² to 807,103 m² (80.71 ha, 199.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Diffreen 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.

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  (a) extend and convert an existing garage into living accommodation and connect this to the existing house; (b) upgrade existing waste water treatment system to current EPA Code of Practice standards together with all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20145

• 16 Jan 2019N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a 4x 3 bay slatted sheep shed, including concrete yard area, upgrading of existing agricultural access and all associated works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 198

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  for the continuance of use of existing telecommunications infrastructure (previously granted under planning permission ref: 09/96 for a temporary 10 year period) comprising of; a 30m high multi-operator antenna support structure with antenna and dishes attached, and associated equipment and cabinets contained within a fenced compound. Planning Permission is also sought for new additional antennas and dishes, associated equipment and cabinet at Coillte, Diffreen, Glencar, Co Leitrim . The development will continue to form part of the existing GSM, 3G and 4G Broadband Networks well as providing infrastructure in support of local wireless Broadband Networks

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1814

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Crockauns/Keelogyboy Bogs NHA 002435

Recorded monuments

• LE006-015001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a knoll on the floor of Glencar valley. A square graveyard (dims 32m N-S; 32m E-W), defined by mortared stone walls (H 1.4m), is possibly on the site of an early church founded by St Osnat in the 6th century (O'Hanlon 1875, vol. 1, 86-7; O'Connell 1937, 108-9). The graveyard has been extended to the W (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S). Osnad was said to be one of the many children of Cuman, an aunt of St Bridget, and by some as one of the three sisters of St Molaise of Devinish, but otherwise she is hardly known (Ó Riain 2011, 522-3). A church at Cill Asnad is on a 17th century list of churches in north Leitrim (Mooney 1946a, 66), but the parish church (LE007-063001-) may have been intended. A fragment of a medieval window mullion in the graveyard is the only indication of a later, medieval, church, but the head of a stone cross (Wth c. 0.75m; H c. 0.5m; T c. 0.2m) with a solid ring and a figure with outstretched arms on both faces is thought to have been moved from here to the Roman Catholic church of Dromahair (NMI file), where it cannot now be found. This cross could be as late as the 17th century. 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 revised upload: 12 January, 2016

• LE006-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a knoll on the floor of Glencar valley. A square graveyard (dims 32mN-S; 32m E-W), defined by mortared stone walls (H 1.4m), is possibly on the site of an early ecclesiastical site founded by St Osnat or Osnad in the 6th century (LE006-015001-). The graveyard has been extended to the W (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S). The head of a stone cross (LE006-015003-) is thought to have been moved from here to the Roman Catholic church of Dromahair (NMI file), where it cannot now be found. Date of upload: 23 September, 2008

• LE006-015003 Cross
  Description

  A fragment of a medieval window mullion in the graveyard (LE006-015002-) is the only indication of a church, but the head of a stone cross (Wth c. 0.75m; H c. 0.5m; T c. 0.2m) with a solid ring and a figure with outstretched arms on both faces is thought to have been moved from here to the Roman Catholic church of Dromahair (NMI file), where it cannot now be found. This cross could be as late as the 17th century. Compiled by: Michael Moore, Paul Walsh Date of revised upload: 12 January 2016

• LE006-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight S-facing slope on the floor of the Glencar valley. It is visible as a feature on the OSI series of aerial images (2000, 2005) and those of Bing (2013). This is a D-shaped grass and rush-covered area (dims 24m E-W; 20.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at N: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.1m) NW-NE, reduced to a scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) SW-NW. It is truncated by a N-S field bank at E and by the road bank of the N16 Sligo to Manorhamilton road at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 July, 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Diffreen.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Diffreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Diffreen · An Duifrian

Area

2,902,580 m² (290.26 ha, 717.24 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glencar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glencar electoral division: 283 people in 101 households; 78% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drummahan, Gleneige, Gortnagarn, Gortnagrogerny, Keelogyboy (Co. Sligo), Launtaggart, Raheenduff, Sramore

Placenames

Diffreen 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.