Loughaphonta

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughaphonta, from 2,732 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) to 133,146 m² (13.31 ha, 32.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Loughaphonta 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.

• 11 Aug 2025Conditional

  1. All elevational changes and extensions to an existing domestic two storey dwelling, 2. the demolition and construction of one chimney, 3. the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the house.

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560210

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 Loughaphonta.

Recorded monuments

• LE012-008001 Enclosure
  Description

  Indicated as a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m), forming the townland boundaries with Munnakill SE-SW and Lissinagroagh SW-NW only on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a W-facing slope in an undulating landscape with rock outcrop and mixed woodland. There is no visible surface evidence of the enclosure, but there was a souterrain (LE012-008002-) 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. Date of revision: 13 December 2011

• LE012-008002 Souterrain
  Description

  On rock outcrop in a deciduous wood associated with enclosure site (LE012-008001--). Known as the 'Dane's Cave' and described as an L-shaped lintelled passage (total L 14.7m; Wth 0.7-1.1m; H 0.8m) (Farrelly 1989, vol. 2, 13). A slight hollow is now visible. 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

• LE012-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20-25m) on the 1835 and 1910 eds of the OS 6-inch maps, and situated on top of a slight rise on a S-facing slope. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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/revision: 13 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Loughaphonta.

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

Name

Loughaphonta · Loch an Phunta

Area

296,876 m² (29.69 ha, 73.36 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Munakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Munakill electoral division: 186 people in 65 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeengeare, Lissinagroagh, Munakill, Tawnylust

Placenames

Loughaphonta 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.