Esker South

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker South, from 87 m² to 182,032 m² (18.2 ha, 44.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Esker South 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.

• 15 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct a slatted/dry bedded agricultural building and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2124

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 Esker South.

Recorded monuments

• LE032-087 Crannog
  Description

  Located at the S end of Cloonfinnan Lough, a subrectangular lake (max. dims c. 700m NNW-SSE; c. 400m ENE-WSW) represented as slightly larger (max. dims c. 770m NNW-SSE; c. 425m ENE-WSW) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown circular island (diam. 33m; H 1.75m) surrounded in the water by lines of timber uprights and wattle bedding which are best preserved W-NNE. There is a quernstone in the interior. 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: 6 December 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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 Esker South.

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

Name

Esker South · An Eiscir Theas

Area

530,629 m² (53.06 ha, 131.12 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Drumard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumard electoral division: 223 people in 83 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonclivvy, Cloonfinnan, Corrascoffy, Drumlom, Esker North, Moherrevan

Placenames

Esker South 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.