Lear

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lear, from 296 m² to 109,516 m² (10.95 ha, 27.06 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 Lear 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 Lear 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 Lear.

Recorded monuments

• LE036-012 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a NW-facing slope. The tomb on McKenna’s land was widely known locally and it was described in the local folklore during the 1930s (IFC: vol. 0214, 332; 0220, 23-4; 022, 588-9). A large stone (dims 3m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW; T 0.2-0.4m) is resting on a single orthostat (dims 0.8m x 0.2m; H 1m) with another orthostat (dims 1m x 0.2m; H 1.2m) adjacent. The back of the large stone rests on the ground on the W side of a N-S field bank. The stone is surrounded by an overgrown cairn (diam. c. 20m; H c. 1m) which survives only W of the field bank. 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: 7 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Lear · An Ladhar

Area

994,588 m² (99.46 ha, 245.77 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

Aghamore, Annaghmore, Cloonee, Drumgrania, Drumhirk, Muckanagh

Placenames

Lear 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.