Manorhamilton
Townland in the civil parish of Cloonclare, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Baile Hamaltúin
- Area
- 70.5 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 379
- registered freehold, median 359 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 34
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
379 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Manorhamilton, from 2 m² to 37,619 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 279 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Enterprise and Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Utilities (General)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Aug 2026N/a
1. To retain an existing single storey rear extension 2. To retain the porch to the front of the existing dwelling 3. To retain the existing domestic shed 4. To construct a part flat roof, part pitched roofed extension at first floor level to the rear of the existing dwelling together with all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660203
10 Jun 2026Conditional
construct a part two-storey, part single storey extension to the rear (North East) of the existing dwelling, together with all ancillary works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660148
20 May 2026Conditional
1. Change the use of the licensed bar to an unlicensed café / open plan social space. 2. Change the use of a storage space to a commercial kitchen. 3. Change the location of 1 No. window and 1 No. door on the northwest elevation. 4. Demolish an existing rear porch.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660131
16 Mar 2026N/a
1. To construct 10 number single storey type detached domestic dwellings comprising 5 no. 2-bed units and 5 no. 3-bed units. 2. To construct car parking, landscaping, connections to all public services and all ancillary works.
Permission consequent, 10 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2660067
6 Feb 2026N/a
I, Louise McCormack, on behalf of Roseblue Advantage Ltd. T/A McCormacks Mace, intend to apply for Planning Permission for 1. Retention of extension to rear of shop. 2. Retention of changed front elevation (lowered cills) 3. Demolition of existing storage area. 4. Extension to provide new storage area. 5. Off-Licence area in shop. 6. New location of shop entrance. 7. Conversion of walled area to the rear of the site for use as storage at filling station at New Line, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660035
14 Feb 2025Conditional
1. Removal of 1 no. temporary modular unit containing 1 no. classroom. 2. Construction of single storey extensions to existing school building including 1 no SEN classroom, 3 no. SET rooms, office and ancillary rooms. 3. Provision of enlarged car parking area to provide 3 no. additional staff car parking spaces 4. All associated connections to public services and all ancillary works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560030
19 Jun 2024Conditional
convert the existing domestic first, second and third floor area into 5 number short term self catering tourism apartments and all ancillary works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460122
28 Mar 2024Conditional
construct a single storey type domestic extension to the side of the existing dwelling, together with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460059
20 Mar 2024Conditional
(1). construct a two-storey type domestic dwelling. (2). To construct a domestic garage. (3.) To construct a shared domestic/agricultural entrance. (4). To connect to existing public foul sewer mains together with all ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460048
12 Mar 2024N/a
construct a single storey type domestic extension to the side of the existing dwelling, together with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460045
23 Nov 2023Conditional
Construct additional car parking space with all associated site works and incorporating the formation of a new pedestrian entrance to the side of the existing Super Valu building to facilitate access from the newly proposed car parking space all on this site
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360148
22 Nov 2023N/a
(a) construct a two-storey type domestic dwelling, (b) construct a domestic garage, (c) construct a new site entrance, (d) connect to existing public foul sewer mains together with all ancillary works, Consequent to Grant of Outline Permission reg. ref. P21/255. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application
Permission consequent, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360146
16 Jun 2023Conditional
install an underground Rainwater Harvesting Tank and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360024
19 Jul 2022Conditional
install six lamp posts in the carpark and driveway and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 22146
10 Jun 2022Refused
construct additional split level car parking space with all associated siteworks
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 22111
8 Mar 2022Conditional
construct 10 number single storey type domestic dwellings. 2. To connect to the public services together with all ancillary works
Outline permission, 10 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2232
2 Mar 2022Conditional
installation of an ATM machine to the South West facing elevation. Manorhamilton Credit Union, Main Street, Manorhamilton, F9 Y683 is listed in Leitrim County Council's Record of Protected Structures-Reg. no. 30800107.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2224
7 Dec 2021Conditional
(a) construct a dormer type domestic dwelling, (b) construct a domestic garage, (c) construct a new site entrance, (d) connect to the public services together with all ancillary works
Outline permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21255
2 Sept 2021Conditional
1. convert a section of the existing underground carpark to a commercial robotics centre/training facility. 2. To construct a glazed roof above an existing external walkway approved by the Planning Authority pursuant to planning register ref. no. P17-6 & 19-71.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21175
24 Jun 2021Conditional
retention planning permission for the completion of the material widening of previous pedestrian access to create a vehicular access including the construction of the two number piers onto Castle Street and the alterations to the former roadside boundary wall. Also, Retention Planning is being sought for the retaining wall to facilitate access to the rear and side of the dwelling house and the raising of land to facilitate same by more than 1 metre in height . Planning permission is also being sought for the construction of a domestic garage for use in conjunction with the existing dwelling house and all ancillary works necessary for the completion of same
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21130
19 May 2021Conditional
will consist of the removal of an existing 15 metres telecommunications support structure (overall height 16.5 metres) together with telecommunications equipment on it and replacement with a new 20 metres telecommunications support structure (over all height 21.5 metres) carrying antennas, dishes, associated equipment, together with ground equipment cabinets and new fencing for wireless data and broadband services
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21108
1 Mar 2021Conditional
construction of 2 no. 7 metre high ball stop nets and associated works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2136
6 Feb 2020Conditional
(a) construct 4 number semi detached 2 storey type dwellings; (b) connect to all existing services; (c) utilise existing site entrance and roadway, granted under parent application reference 00/491
Permission, 4 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2017
3 Dec 2019Conditional
for development consisting of (1) 13 new car parking spaces to the West of the site as shown on application drawings marked as Proposed Car Park 1 (2) demolition of existing tin shed in maintenance yard to North of the site as shown on application drawings in proposed car park 2 (3) macadam surfacing of existing maintenance yard to accommodate 23 new car parking spaces noted on the application drawings as car park 2 (4) proposed car park with 59 spaces in front of the existing hospital building, along with all associated sundry works, including new drainage systems, street lighting, turning area and demolition of existing wall to accommodate junction to existing hospital access road noted on the drawing as car park 3 (5) new zebra crossing on existing access road with belisha beacons and floodlighting
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19266
4 Jun 2019Conditional
for a single storey house, connection to existing services and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19126
The 25 most recent of 34 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
- LE011-014001 Church
Description
Located on a S-facing hillslope within Manorhamilton town and within a subrectangular graveyard (dims 40m N-S; 37m E-W) which is defined by masonry walls and contains 18th and 19th-century graves. This was the old Protestant church of Manorhamilton, probably built in the 17th century, and abandoned in 1783 (Faughnan 1943, file no. 131) when the present church within the bastioned fort (LE011-015---) c. 300m to the NE was built. The church is a rectangular structure (int. dims 18.6m E-W; 6.45m N-S) built of randomly coursed masonry with walls surviving complete (H c. 3m). There is a large window opening (Wth c. 1.9m; H 3.5m) in the E gable, and a round-headed doorway (Wth c. 1.5m; H c. 3m) and single bellcote in the W gable. There are three smaller openings in the S wall, while most of the N wall does not survive. Archaeological testing (02E1345) c. 40m to the E produced no related material (Read 2004), and testing (05E0393) across the lane to the SW had a similar result (Crumlish 2008). 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 revised upload: 13 February 2017
- LE011-014002 Graveyard
Description
Located on a S-facing hillslope within Manorhamilton town. The the old Protestant church of Manorhamilton, probably built in the 17th century and abandoned in 1783 (Faughnan 1943, file no. 131) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims 40m N-S; 37m E-W) which is defined by masonry walls and contains 18th and 19th-century graves. Archaeological testing (02E1345) c. 40m to the E produced no related material (Read 2004).
- LE011-015 Bastioned fort
Description
Situated on the highest point of a hill within Manorhamilton, it would have been just NE of the original town. This is a square enclosure (dims 73m N-S; 73m E-W) with corner bastions (dims 17m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a coursed limestone masonry wall (max. Wth 0.9m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 3-6m) built on a plinth over bedrock. There is an 18th-century Church of Ireland church and graveyard in the interior. Archaeological testing (02E0010) inside the SE angle identified a wall that may have been part of a gun-platform (Read 2004b), but archaeological testing (02E1412) on Church Lane just to the W produced no related material (Read 2004a). Further testing (19E0679) immediately outside the W wall and just S of the NW bastion produced no related material (Halpin 2019; excavations.ie 2019: 412) 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 Amended: 28 October 2020
- LE011-109 Historic town
Description
Manorhamilton was never chartered as a town, but once Sir Frederick Hamilton built the castle (LE007-079001-) a town started to grow around it. In the 1640s some mills are mentioned in connection with it, and the church (LE011-014001-) is 17th century in date. The town had a population of 21 (heads of households) c. 1659 (Pender 1939, 568) and is described as consisting of c. 40 houses in the late 17th century (Logan 1971, 331). The star-shaped fort (LE011-015----) is part of the town and overlooks it on the N side, but it was not built until the 18th century. The town would have been built as a fortified frontier town of the period and like Jamestown (LE031-082----) it could have consisted of properties on either side of a Main Street. This area (dims c. 290m NW-SE; c. 170-c. 220m NE-SW) extending SE from the NE-SW Owenmore River was divided into neat, equally-sized plots as depicted on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It has the Court House at the W end and the Market House near the E end where the original church is also located. Archaeological testing, largely in the vicinity of the castle, has failed to produce any related material, and testing (06E0016) behind properties on the Main St. and at the SE end of the town (10E0113) have not demonstrated occupation from the 17th century (Henry 2009e; Wallace 2013). 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 revised upload: 26 January, 2016
Architectural heritage
- Buckard's Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over the Owenbeg River, built c.1840, with ashlar sandstone voussoirs to arch-ring and random sandstone parapet walls.
- Manorhamilton Courthouse, court house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey court house, built in 1835. Hipped slate roof M-profile and with chimneystack to rear. Roughly dressed random coursed limestone walls with yellow brick cornice. Double timber sash windows with spoked fanlights over in recessed round-headed openings with cut sandstone surrounds. Replacement timber door with fanlight to round-headed opening with stone surround. Timber battened door with overlight to north elevation. Flat-roofed former fire engine house recessed to south side of court house. Building accessed through cut limestone piers having wrought-iron gates. Front of site now used as a car park.
- Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey bank building, built c.1860. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with stucco quoins, plinth course, channelling to ground floor and sill course to first floor. Paired and double timber sash windows with stucco surrounds. Display window to ground floor with timber tracery. Segmental-headed timber panelled door flanked by segmental-headed windows set in square-headed openings with stucco surrounds.
- Milestone/milepost, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Carved sandstone milestone, erected c.1840, set on footpath at corner of Main Street and New Line. Bench mark to base. Inscription set into recessed face has been eroded and is now illegible.
- House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with single- and two-storey returns. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods and carved timber bargeboards with false timber roof trusses. Squared random coursed limestone to façade and ruled-and-lined render to other elevations with sandstone quoins. Gable-fronted timber and glazed entrance porch with decorative bargeboards. Window openings with sandstone lintels, red brick surrounds, stone sills and replacement timber sash windows. Rendered boundary wall to street with cast-iron gate piers. Chamfered corner to rear return.
- The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile rectory, built in 1882, with porch to front and a single-storey extension to the east side. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rock-faced squared random limestone walls with brick and stone cornice. Segmental-arched brick window openings with timber sash windows, red brick surrounds and stone sills. Canted bay window to west elevation. Brick and glazed porch with hipped slate roof. Two-storey coach house to east with hipped slate roof, stone walls and replacement windows and doors. House set within garden bounded by hedge and wall to north. Replacement rendered entrance piers.
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with integral carriage arch, shopfront and five-bay two-storey return. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered façade with stucco quoins and raised stucco pediments to windows. Stucco pilasters flanking doorway supporting cornice and replacement fascia. Replacement shopfront. Timber panelled door with petal fanlight above in square-headed opening, leading to upper storeys. Timber sash windows to façade and return. Stone wheel guards to corner leading to laneway.
- Manorhamilton Masonic Hall, church/chapel, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced five-bay single-storey Methodist chapel, built 1792. Sold, 1879, to accommodate alternative use. Pitched slate roof. Coursed random limestone walls with ruled-and-lined render to facade. Round-headed doorway in west end with moulded archivolt and replacement timber door, surmounted by Masonic plaque, in flat-roofed end bay. Pointed-arched doorway to east end with cut stone surround, traceried overlight and timber battened door. Traceried two-light pointed-arched window and replacement square-headed windows in blocked pointed-arched openings with limestone sills. Building abutted at west end by gable-fronted two-storey building with rendered walls.
- Hotel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1820, with return and outbuilding to rear of site. Now used as artists' studio. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined render to façade. Timber sash and casement windows with stone sills and stucco surrounds. Replacement door with overlight containing licensing sign. Two-storey three-bay outbuilding with lean-to roof. Random coursed sandstone walls with sandstone lintels and chamfered corner to south. Replacement timber windows and door.
- Manorhamilton Market House, market house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former market house, built in 1834 by Nathaniel Clements, second Earl of Leitrim. Set back from the road and now used as a design centre. Pitched roof with decorative cut stone chimneystack to rear. Ashlar façade with channelled rustication to ground floor and sandstone dressings and quoins. Rendered side and rear elevations. Carved stone coat of arms to tympanum of pediment displaying the motto 'Patriis Virtutibus' (by Ancestral Virtues). Timber sash windows. Entrance doorway to south end of façade. Central integral carriage arch with display window. Entrance door with stucco surround remains on façade from previous hardware store. Building flanked by tooled sandstone carriage arches with cast-iron gates leading to rear of site containing a number of outbuildings.
- Mill (water), 1775–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement former mill, built in 1779, with two-storey rear extension. Built into sloping terrain and fronting directly onto the street. Pitched slate roof with coping to south, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor and square-headed to ground, with timber sash windows and stone sills. Timber panelled door to façade with date plaque over. Timber battened door to north gable and return. Rear extensions with varying roof heights. Retaining many original interior fittings such as cut stone fireplaces. Sandstone flagstone to entrance door on north elevation.
- Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, with fluted base, horizontal banding and fluted domed cap with acorn finial.
- House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Terrace of four two-bay two-storey houses, built c.1900, with gardens to front of sites. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and corbels supporting cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with rendered quoins to eastern gable. Paired window openings to each bay of upper storey and bay windows to ground floor. No.3 has original timber sash windows. Segmental-headed door openings with spoked fanlights and timber sash sidelights. No.3 has original timber panelled door. Cast-iron gates and railings to front gardens.
- House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay four-storey house, built c.1850, with shopfront and in use as post office. Fronts directly onto the street. Pitched slate roof with coping and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with quoins and plinth course. Replacement timber windows with stone sills and stucco surrounds. Timber sash window to rear. Shopfront with display window, fluted pilasters, fascia board and cornice. Ttimber panelled doors with overlights. Rendered and corrugated-iron outbuildings to rear of site.
- House, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built in 1885, with shopfront and with single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof. Rendered walls with stucco quoins, plinth and shop surround. Plain stucco window surrounds with replacement timber windows. Replacement display window and door to shopfront. Decorative stone date plaque to facade. Stone outbuildings to rear of site.
- Allied Irish Bank, bank/financial institution, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay three-storey bank, built c.1900, with two-storey return. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks hidden by parapet, with cast-iron rounded hoppers and square-profile down pipes. Ashlar limestone bankfront with string course. Render to upper floors with stucco dressings. Dog-tooth mouldings and cornice to parapet. Top-opening windows to ground floor divided by stone pilasters with carved capitals. Margined timber sash windows with stucco surrounds to upper storeys. Timber panelled doors with overlights and carved cut stone surrounds.
- T.A. Golden, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited three-bay three-storey with attic house, built c.1830, with shopfront and return. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods supported on stone corbels and ashlar chimneystacks. Cut random coursed limestone façade and rendered gable. Timber panelled door with brass door furniture, carved timber overlight and rendered surround to house door. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and stone sills. Replacement timber shopfront to ground floor with metal gate. Cutstone three-storey return with two-storey extension. Laneway to north elevation leading to rear yard with random stone outbuildings. Fronts directly onto the street.
- Post box, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron post box, erected c.1940 and set in rendered wall pier, next to former Methodist church.
- The Glens Centre, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached former Methodist church, built 1821, with a three-bay nave and advanced gable-fronted porch. Sold, 1963. Renovated and extended to east and north in 1995 and now used as a theatre. Pitched slate roof with stone chimneystacks, stone coping and rooflight. Weather vane to porch. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with stucco quoins. Lancet windows to nave and triple lancet to porch. Tudor-arched entrance openings to porch. Modern entrance porch to north of original entrance. Interior with ornate gallery. Rendered gate piers, one with cast-iron post box, to front of site. Cast-iron gate and piers to south-west.
- Prospect House, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, with projecting end bay and with two-storey return. Pitched slate roof with bargeboards and false trusses to gables and to first floor windows. Rendered chimneystacks. Square profiled rainwater goods with decorative brackets. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with quoins and plinth course. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Rectangular and canted bay windows to facade. Timber panelled door with overlight. Original gabled porch gone and inner door blocked up. Two-storey coursed random stone outbuilding with corrugated-iron roof to rear. House is set in own grounds, bounded by rendered wall with gate piers.
- Manorhamilton Church (Cloonclare), church/chapel, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-cell Church of Ireland church, built in 1783. Four-bay nave with projecting three-stage castellated entrance tower to west gable with string course, carved pinnacles and spire. Tower is flanked by lancet windows of nave. Pitched slate roof with ashlar sandstone chimneystack, ridge tiles and cut sandstone eaves course. Roughly dressed sandstone and limestone walls laid to courses. Timber battened door with cast-iron furniture, set within pointed-arched opening with tooled sandstone surround and steps. Date plaque above door. Decorative shields with date over door with label moulding. Paired louvred windows to first stage of tower with label mouldings and pointed and triangular-headed windows with hood mouldings to upper stages. Traceried lancet windows to nave with tooled limestone surrounds, sills and hood mouldings. Traceried three-light window to east. Grave markers and memorials of differing materials and styles to surrounding graveyard. Three-bay single-storey sexton's house to south of church entrance gates. Church built on the site of the Old Barracks Square which was a star-shaped military fortification of c. 1700 with bastions.
- Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey Roman Catholic presbytery, built c.1880, with projecting gable-fronted end bay and projecting porch to façade, canted-bay window to south-east elevation and extension to rear. Hipped U-plan slate with lean-to roof to extension. Brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots, cross finial and timber bargeboard to projecting bay. Ruled-and-lined render to walls, stucco quoins and with blank plaque to façade. Replacement uPVC windows with stucco surrounds and stone sills. Timber panelled door to hipped slated porch. Dressed stone gate piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate to rear yard. Roughcast rendered outbuilding to rear. Lean to shed to south east. House is set back from road within mature gardens, bounded by rendered and random stone walls with cast-iron gate piers and gates. Path links house to Roman Catholic church.
- Saint Clare's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Roman Catholic church, built c.1885 by architect William Hague, comprising five-bay nave, six-bay side aisles, two-bay chancel and four-stage bell tower with castellations. Pitched slate roof with cross finials and stone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal slate roof to bell tower with weather vane. Coursed rock-faced limestone walls with buttresses and string courses. Dressed and carved limestone door and window surrounds. Paired pointed-arched windows to side aisles and ogee-headed windows to clerestorey with rose window and pair of traceried pointed windows in west gable and four-light traceried window in east end with hood moulding with corbel stops. Single and paired ogee-headed and pointed windows to tower. Pointed-arched door opening in tower with hood moulding and corbel stops. Shouldered-arched door opening in west gable with sculpted tympanum with figures and foliage and with timber battened double doors. Four-bay vestry with triple-ogee light, carved stone chimney and recent extension to south-east corner of chancel. Church is set back from road on an elevated site with grave markers of parish priests ranging in date from 1887 to 1967. Bounded by snecked rock-faced wall with dressed coping and dressed gate piers with stone cross finials.rave marker to front of Church of Rev. John Maguire reads "Pray for the soul of very Rev. John Maguire DDVC, A native of this parish of Cloonclare of which he was Pastor from 1866 to 1904. He erected this Church in 1883, it was destroyed by the storm 1884 and rebuilt by him 1886, died 14th February 1904 in the 87th year of his age and 60th year of his sacred ministry. R.I.P"
- Workhouse, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former workhouse, built in 1842 to a design by James Caldwell, with modern porch and two-storey extension to rear. Now used as a hospital building. Pitched tiled roof. Squared random coursed limestone walls with plinth course and cut stone quoins. Slightly-projecting chimney breasts expressed in gable walls. Four-bay pebbledashed porch with smooth rendered plinth and lean-to artificial slate roof. Replacement timber windows with stone sills in cut stone flat-arched openings and glazed timber door. Outbuildings to north-east.
- Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, comprising fluted cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding and spout and fluted domed cap with acorn finial.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1394 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Manorhamilton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Manorhamilton · Baile Hamaltúin
- Area
- 705,207 m² (70.52 ha, 174.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloonclare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Manorhamilton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Manorhamilton electoral division: 2,064 people in 854 households; 58% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooneen, Donagh Beg, Donagh More, Ramooney, Ross, Skreeny, Skreeny, Tuckmillpark
- Placenames
- Manorhamilton 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.