Finnalaghta

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Finnalaghta, from 78 m² to 168,907 m² (16.89 ha, 41.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Finnalaghta 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.

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560246

• 28 May 2019Conditional

  construct a 18 metre high multi-user lattice telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound, together with new entrance and new access track with associated ground equipment and associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19117

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 Finnalaghta.

Recorded monuments

• LE035-006 Crannog
  Description

  Attached to the W shore of a small silted lake (dims c. 70m N-S; c. 55m E-W), although the lake is represented as only slightly larger (dims c. 120m N-S; c. 60m E-W) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The crannog is indicated as a small island on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is now a small wooded area (diam. c. 20m) that does not rise visibly, and with no visible surface evidence of artificial construction. 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 Revised: 6 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Finnalaghta.

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

Name

Finnalaghta · Fionn an Leachta

Area

1,006,527 m² (100.65 ha, 248.72 acres)

Civil parish

Annaduff, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Drumod, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumod electoral division: 1,010 people in 376 households; 72% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghintass, Antfield, Corduff, Cuilmore, Drumlom, Esker North, Fearnaght, Moher

Placenames

Finnalaghta 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.