Leckanarainey

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leckanarainey, from 236 m² to 2,212,452 m² (221.25 ha, 546.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Leckanarainey 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.

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a rear extension to the existing house, renovations to the existing house, new effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21271

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
• Special Area of Conservation: Arroo Mountain SAC 001403
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bonet River 001404
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arroo Mountain 001403

Recorded monuments

• LE004-023 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located at a point where the unbuilt townland boundary between Cullinboy to the W and Gubinea to the E changes direction from SW-NE to the NNW direction proceeding N. It is situated on a broad plateau and comprises a small modern pile of stones. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

• LE004-024 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located on a rise of a broad plateau and on the unbuilt townland boundary between Meenagruan to the NE and Leckanarainey to the SW. This is a small modern pile of stones. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

• LE007-003001 Mass-rock
  Description

  Located in mixed woodland at the bottom of a slope on the W side of a cleft (dims c. 70m N-S; c. 20m E-W at N to c. 40m at S; D c. 20m). This is at the SW edge of the Dartry Mountains with a N-S stream c. 50m distant emerging from a waterfall along the E side of the cleft that is known as Scregnahaltora – from Crag na h-Altóra, the rock of the altar. This is a drystone-built altar (dims 1.2m NE-SW; 0.8m NW-SE; H 0.9m at SE) with a slab on top (dims 1m x 0.6m; T 0.1m) and a wooden cross fixed at the NW or upslope side of the altar. There is a rectangular enclosure (int. dims 1.2m NW-SE; 1.2m NE-SW) defined by low drystone walls (H 0.2-0.6m) with an entrance (Wth 0.4m) at SE in front of the altar. The children’s burial ground (LE007-00303--) is c. 40m to the NE. (Gallogly 1993-4, 435; 1999, 400) 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-003003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Located in mixed woodland at the NW side of a cleft (dims c. 70m N-S; c. 20m E-W at N to c. 40m at S; D c. 20m) that is on the SW edge of the Dartry Mountains with a N-S stream c. 70m to the E emerging from a waterfall along the E side of the cleft. This is a rectangular area (int. dims 3m E-W; 1.2m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.4m; max. H 0.8m) on each side except the N where a cliff (H c. 5m) rises over it. It is known as a childrens burial ground (Faughnan 1943), but there is no evidence of grave-markers. The mass-rock (LE007-003001--) is c. 40m to the S. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE007-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a gentle rise on the floor of the NW-SE Glenade valley with the NW-SE Bonet River c. 90m to the SW. It is not marked on any map but is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 5/6932-1). This is a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 22m NNE-SSW; c. 16m WNW-ESE) defined by a slight scarp, but it is truncated by a relict NNE-SSW field bank at NW. The original entrance is not identified 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Leckanarainey.

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

Name

Leckanarainey · Leiceann na Raithní

Area

3,423,924 m² (342.39 ha, 846.07 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glenade, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenade electoral division: 156 people in 62 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavoghil, Conwal South, Cullionboy, Glebe, Gorteenachurry, Gortinar, Meenagraun, Rassaun West

Placenames

Leckanarainey 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.