Modorragh

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Modorragh, from 83 m² to 74,480 m² (7.45 ha, 18.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Modorragh 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.

• 25 Oct 2024Conditional

  full planning permission for the following: 1. To construct a two story type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To connect to all public services, and all ancillary works. The works are located at Modorragh, Drumkeeran, Co Leitrim

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460217

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct a slatted/dry bedded agricultural building and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1920

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Owengar Wood 001419

Recorded monuments

• LE018-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (dims 47m NE-SW: 35.5m NW-SE; int. dims 42m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-7m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 1-1.8m) best preserved at N, and a slight external fosse (Wth of base c. 2m; D 0.2m) which was recut as a field drain SW-NW. There is a clearance cairn (diam. 3m; H 0.6m) in the interior and a modern entrance (Wth 2m) at NW. The bullaun stone (LE018-052---) is c. 50m to the SE. 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

• LE018-052 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Located in pasture on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. A sandstone boulder (dims 1.75m x 0.6m; max H 0.3m) has four circular basins (diam. 0.23-0.38m; D 0.05-0.15m), two partly broken, on its upper surface. It is situated c. 50m SE of rath (LE018-024---). 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 Modorragh.

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 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 Modorragh.

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

Name

Modorragh · Maigh Dorcha

Area

613,909 m² (61.39 ha, 151.7 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmagrath, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Drumkeeran, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghgerry, Barragh Beg, Barragh More, Carrowlaur, Derrinvoher, Drumrewy, Lugmeen, Mullaghcashel, Sheena

Placenames

Modorragh 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.