Leganamer
Townland in the civil parish of Drumreilly, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Log an Umair
- Area
- 32.8 ha
- 81 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 5,330 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leganamer, from 394 m² to 76,822 m² (7.68 ha, 18.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Leganamer 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jun 2019Conditional
(a) demolish an existing habitable dwelling; (b) construct a new two storey domestic dwelling; (c) construct a domestic garage; (d) upgrade the existing waste water treatment facility to an onsite waste water treatment facility which complies with the current EPA CoP and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19141
7 May 2019N/a
(a) demolish an existing habitable dwelling; (b) construct a new two storey domestic dwelling; (c) construct a domestic garage; (d) upgrade the existing waste water treatment facility to an onsite waste water treatment facility which complies with current EPA COP, and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1999
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Leganamer.
Recorded monuments
- LE022-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a knoll towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. dims 20m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.9-1.6m) which survives only NW-NE, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 8-9.5m; Wth of base 3-5m; int. D 0.1-0.3m) with an overgrown outer bank which is best preserved S-W-N (Wth 2.5-5m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m). There is a modern entrance (Wth 2m) at S, which may be on the site of the original entrance. 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 Leganamer.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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 Leganamer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Leganamer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Leganamer · Log an Umair
- Area
- 328,355 m² (32.84 ha, 81.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumreilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Electoral division
- Garadice, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garadice electoral division: 586 people in 237 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornacreeve, Crockawaddy, Drumarigna, Leckan, Mulnavannoge
- Placenames
- Leganamer 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.