Morerah

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Morerah, from 38 m² to 353,231 m² (35.32 ha, 87.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Morerah 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.

• 27 Sept 2019Conditional

  (a) to demolish the existing domestic sheds; (b) to construct a two storey type domestic extension to the side of the existing dwelling; (c) alterations to all existing dwelling elevations; (d) construct domestic garage; (e) construct a new site entrance; (f) upgrade the Waste Water Treatment System and polishing filter to current EPA Code of Practice and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19195

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  (a) The erection of a porch to the south west elevation of an existing dwelling house; (b) the erection of a domestic garage with storage area and cinema room located to the north east of the existing dwelling house; (c) carry out alterations and renovations to an existing agricultural building with the erection of extension to same to include domestic swimming pool and gym and change of use of said agricultural building to domestic changing room facilities; (d) all associated landscaping and site works including the decommissioning of existing septic tank and construction of new Puraflo wastewater treatment system and connecting backwash tank; (e) Retention of the modifications to the dwelling in lieu of Permission for (a) The erection of a porch to the south west elevation of an existing dwelling house; (b) the erection of a domestic garage with storage area and cinema room located to the north east of the existing dwelling house; (c) carry out alterations and renovations to an existing agricultural building with the erection of extension to same to include domestic swimming pool and gym and change of use of said agricultural building to domestic changing room facilities; (d) all associated landscaping and site works including the decommissioning of existing septic tank and construction of new Puraflo wastewater treatment system and connecting backwash tank

  Permission, 3 homes · Leitrim County Council, 18282

• 23 Nov 2018N/a

  (i) The erection of a porch to the South West elevation of an existing dwelling house (ii) The erection of a domestic garage with storage area and cinema room located to the North West of the existing dwelling house (iii) To carry out alterations and renovations to an existing agricultural building with the erection of extension to same to include domestic swimming pool and gym and change of use of said agricultural building to domestic changing room facilities (iv) All associated landscaping and site works including the decommissioning of existing septic tank and construction of new Puraflo Wastewater Treatment System and connecting backwash tank

  Permission, 3 homes · Leitrim County Council, 18257

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 Morerah.

Recorded monuments

• LE011-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 355-6), it is located on top of a broad limestone plateau. Grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 21m N-S) defined by a stone spread (2.5m; H 0.35m) with intermittently visible facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1.2m). 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 Morerah.

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

At the centre of the townland of Morerah, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Morerah.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Morerah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Morerah · Maigh Rátha

Area

2,426,738 m² (242.67 ha, 599.66 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlease, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Lurganboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

444 people lived in 169 households in the Lurganboy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghameelta Barr, Ballynaboll, Boihy, Cornalaghta, Fawnarry, Killenna Glebe, Leckaun

Placenames

Morerah 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.