Errew

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Errew, from 1,617 m² to 236,662 m² (23.67 ha, 58.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Errew 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 Errew 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 Errew.

Recorded monuments

• LE030-041 Stone row
  Description

  Located in scrub on rock outcrop which is on the floor of an E-W valley with a small W-E stream c. 100m to the N. It is described as a ‘Stone Circle’ only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In 1991 there were two stone uprights, each aligned N-S (S stone: dims 1.2m x 0.6m; H 0.95m; N stone: 1.55m x 0.5m; H 0.9m), and there was a pit just to the N from which a third stone (dims 0.55m x 0.25m; L 1.6m) had been removed since the 1940s (SMR file). They formed a rough N-S alignment (surviving L 4.1m). The scrub had been removed by c. 2012 (OSAP) but the stones still appear to be present. 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: 14 October 2019

• LE034-006 Burial ground
  Description

  Located on an E-facing slope overlooking Lough Gulladoo, also known as Errew Lough. The large enclosure (LE034-006001-) has a rectangular enclosure at its E edge that was described as a ‘Burying Ground’ on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1907 edition. The enclosure (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W at S; c. 35m E-W at N) is defined by earthen banks with trees on each side, except the E where a masonry wall borders a N-S road. The few headstones date mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, the earliest legible date being 1758, and there is a lot of folklore concerning the graveyard (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0228, 69, 169-70). 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December, 2019

• LE034-006001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Located at the crest of and on an E-facing slope overlooking Lough Gulladoo, also known as Errew Lough. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims c. 95m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall on top of an earthen bank (at N: Wth 6.6m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.4m). Against the perimeter at E is the rectangular burial ground (LE0334-006----). The enclosure is regarded in the folk tradition as a ‘fort’ (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0228, 186, 196). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 December, 2019

• LE034-008 Crannog
  Description

  Located c. 40m from the NW shore of the central part (dims c. 750m NE-SW; c. 200m NW-SE at NE to c. 500m NW-SE at SW) of Gulladoo Lough (L c. 3km NE-SW). This is an overgrown, circular and stony area (diam. 18m N-S; 17.5m E-W; H 1.5m) surrounded by timber planks and stakes (max. L 1.5m; diam. 0.3m) concentrated in a C-shaped area defined by a low stone wall in the water SE-SW, possibly an attempt to enlarge the crannog. A programme of radiocarbon dating undertaken by the Discovery Programme produced two dates of 520 +- 20 BP (AD 1398-1439) and 485 +- 25 (1411-1447) from wood taken from the crannog (O’Conor and Fredengren 2019, 91). 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December 2019, 30/12/2019 O’Conor, K. and Fredengren, C. 2019 Medieval settlement in Leitrim, c. 1169-c. 1380. in In Kelly, L. and Scott, B. Leitrim: History and Society, 79-101. Dublin, Geography Publications

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Errew · Oireadh

Area

1,271,372 m² (127.14 ha, 314.16 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Gortermone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortermone electoral division: 289 people in 106 households; 96% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghawillin, Bredagh, Cornaferst, Drumbreanlis, Gulladoo

Placenames

Errew 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.