Mackan

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mackan, from 1,880 m² to 61,491 m² (6.15 ha, 15.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Mackan 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.

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  1) Construct 12 no. 1-bed chalets in lieu of 7 no. 3-bed chalets previously granted under parent planning application P21/67 2) Construction of new road connecting existing main car park to existing road leading to rear site entrance on L7379. Tarmac surfacing of existing road leading to existing rear exit onto L7379. 3) To construct overflow car park (33 spaces) to the rear of the existing main car park. 4) To construct a ground mounted 100 KW solar photovoltaic array. 5) Construction of 2 no. padel courts. 6) All connections to public services and all ancillary site works. The proposed development is located within the curtilage and attendant grounds of Drumhierny Lodge which is a Protected Structure (Leitrim Register of Protected Structures RPS No. 190).

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560164

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  (a) to construct Garden Room for use Ancillary to the Existing Dwelling House, (b) for change of Site Boundary to that Permitted under Grants of Planning P.07/1372 and P.09/90 and (c) Retention of the existing Onsite Treatment System, the location of which is at variance to that permitted under Grants of Planning P.07/1372 and P.09/90, with all associated site development works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560124

• 7 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1). construct a new therapy suite, (2).construct a new outdoor plunge pool, (3).Retain existing shelter building (The Cedaroo), (4).retain existing wellness centre building, (5). retain 2 No. outdoor hot tubs and 4 No. outdoor seaweed baths associated with the wellness centre building, (6).retain existing play area, (7).retain existing ESB sub-Station Building, (8).retain existing car parking area and access lane serving same, (9).retain temporarily, existing reception building for a five-year period. (10).To retain temporarily, existing coffee shop for a five-year period. (11).To retain temporarily, existing storage/maintenance buildings for a five-year period. (12).To retain and complete the change of use of the existing barn to an events venue centre to include the renovation, partial demolition and extension of this structure. (13).To regularise existing entrance piers, wing walls granted under planning no 21/67 (14).All associated site works. The development is located within the curtilage and attendant grounds of Drumhierny Lodge which is a Protected Structure in the Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029 in the town lands of Drumhierny and Macken, Leitrim Village Co. Leitrim.

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2360094

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house with a two storey and single storey element, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22216

• 15 Oct 2020N/a

  for (1) Erection of 26 no. chalets. (2) Change of use of existing Coach House and stores to reception area with toilets and stairs at ground floor level and storage space at first floor level. (3) Construction of recreational footpaths. (4) Foul sewer pump station with new rising main connection to existing public foul sewer 430m approximately from the proposed site. (5) Construction of 1 no. car park at existing site entrance providing 16 no. car park spaces. (6) Construction of 2 no. car parks within the overall development providing 25 no. car park spaces. (7) All associated site works. The development for which Permission for Retention and Completion is sought consists of the erection of entrance pillars, wing walls and entrance gates. The development is located within the curtilage and attendant grounds of Drumhierny Lodge which is a Protected Structure in the Leitrim County Development Plan

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20182

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 Mackan.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the SE-facing slope of a gentle rise. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 38m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by a slight bank (at N: Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.55m) SW-N-NE reduced to a low scarp (H 0.3m) elsewhere, and a fosse suggested by a band of lush vegetation (Wth 2m) at W. 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 Mackan.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1453 (ZIP).

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

Name

Mackan · Na Meacain

Area

354,559 m² (35.46 ha, 87.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Leitrim electoral division: 1,380 people in 500 households; 80% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanaboy, Drumgeaglom, Drumhierny, Leitrim

Placenames

Mackan 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.