Errew

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Errew, from 2,343 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 89,568 m² (8.96 ha, 22.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Errew 001807
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sallagh 001808

Recorded monuments

• LE036-047001 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in a small S-N valley and on the E bank of the canalised Errew River, c. 15-30m from the stream and c. 200-300m from where the stream now debouches into Errew Lough. However, the location would once have been part of the lake fringe, and layers of peat covered and underlay the excavated features. Archaeological monitoring (06E0743) of an extensive area identified four spreads of burnt mound material in Area 5 (Péterváry 2006) which were all fully excavated under the same licence (Péterváry 2007). This most northerly feature was located on a mound of marl (dims 5.4m x 3.2m) which was covered by a thin layer of broken and burnt stone. This covered of a circular, rounded and stone-lined pit (diam. 1.4m; D 0.35m). Charcoal from the covering layer produced a C14 date of 2200-1960 bc (Péterváry 2010, 286). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January 2020

• LE036-047002 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in a small S-N valley and on the E bank of the canalised Errew River, c. 15-30m from the stream and c. 200-300m from where the stream now debouches into Errew Lough. However, the location would once have been part of the lake fringe, and layers of peat covered and underlay the excavated features. Archaeological monitoring (06E0743) of an extensive area identified four spreads of burnt mound material in Area 5 (Péterváry 2006) which were all fully excavated under the same licence (Péterváry 2006). This feature was on a rise of clay (dims 3.9m x 2.6m; H 0.25m) and consisted of a rectangular trough (dims 1.98mx 1.08m; D 0.2m), the base and sides of which were lined with split roundwood over layers of moss. Charcoal from associated burnt stone deposits produced a C14 date of 1000-830 bc (Péterváry 2010, 286-7). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 9 January 2020

• LE036-047003 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in a small S-N valley and on the E bank of the canalised Errew River, c. 15-30m from the stream and c. 200-300m from where the stream now debouches into Errew Lough. However, the location would once have been part of the lake fringe and layers of peat covered and underlay the excavated features. Archaeological monitoring (06E0743) of an extensive area identified four spreads of burnt mound material in Area 5 (Péterváry 2006) which were all fully excavated under the same licence (Péterváry 2007). This consisted of an oblong platform (dims 5.2m E-W; 2.8m N-S; max. T 0.5m) with a circular and round-bottomed, wattle-lined trough (diam. 1.22m; D 0.24m). The N edge of the trough also had a concentration of burnt stone (dims 1.1m x 0.5m; D 0.2m) which might have been a hearth. (Péterváry 2010, 287) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January 2020

• LE036-047004 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in a small S-N valley and on the E bank of the canalised Errew River, c. 15-30m from the stream and c. 200-300m from where the stream now debouches into Errew Lough. However, the location would once have been part of the lake fringe, and layers of peat covered and underlay the excavated features. Archaeological monitoring (06E0743) of an extensive area identified four spreads of burnt mound material in Area 5 (Péterváry 2006) which were all fully excavated under the same licence (Péterváry 2007). The most southerly feature consisted of a clay platform (dims 4m E-W; 2.1m N-S; max. D 0.32m) with a thin covering of broken and burnt stone. No trough was identified and the material may have been spread from the trough (LE036-047003-) c. 8m to the NW, but a charcoal sample produced a C14 date of 790-500 bc. (Péterváry 2010, 287) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• Lough Rynn House, bridge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c.1850, carrying road traffic over a stream towards Lough Rynn House and Estate. Random coursed cut stone walls with triangular coping stones and rock-faced voussoirs to arch-ring.

• Errew Cottage, worker's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey estate worker's house with attic, built c.1850, with projecting central gable-fronted porch and triple-pile extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and decorative timber bargeboards to gable ends and porch. Random coursed stone walls with cut stone quoins. Brick surrounds to window openings with stone sills and timber sash windows. Timber lintel to entrance with timber battened door, sidelights and stone steps. Inscription bearing letters 'MC' to house. Stone outbuildings to west. Cottage set in own mature grounds off driveway to Lough Rynn House.

• House, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c.1760. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with cut stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods to rear. Roughcast-rendered stone walls. Cast-iron swivel lattice windows to façade and timber casement to rear, all with brick sills. Recessed timber battened door with timber half door in front, accessed by stone flags. Outbuildings to front in ruins. Set in mature garden within Lough Rynn Estate.

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 high, moderately low, low, 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

1,084,069 m² (108.41 ha, 267.88 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Rinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rinn electoral division: 466 people in 183 households; 68% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breanross North, Clooncoe, Cloonlaughil, Drumbad, Gortletteragh, Rinn

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.