Oughteragh

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oughteragh, from 27 m² to 188,831 m² (18.88 ha, 46.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Oughteragh 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.

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  1. Construct a two story type domestic dwelling, 2. Construct a domestic garage, 3. Construct a new site entrance, 4. Connect to all public services, and all ancillary works The works are located at Oughteragh, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460157

• 2 Feb 2017N/a

  construct a Car Park and carry out all associated works. The Car Park will serve the adjoining cemetery

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1712

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 Oughteragh.

Recorded monuments

• LE025-008001 Church
  Description

  Located on a slight rise at the outer edge of a shelf towards the top of the E-facing slope of a broad drumlin. This is the site of the medieval parish church of Oughteragh, which according to John O’Donovan writing in the 1830s was dedicated to St Bridget (Herity 2012, 397). Something is known of its clergy during the fifteenth century when it was united with Drumreilly (LE025-058001-) in the rectory of Cenél Luacháin, which may have been formed from an ancient tuath (Seymour 1935, 250-3). The church could be on an older foundation as the name Oughteragh could be Uachtar Achaid, recorded in the eight century as an estate of the church of Armagh (Mac Cotter 2019, 72). Members of the Maolmochéirghe family (Anglicised: Earley) were hereditary comharba of Cenél Luacháin and the large estate attached to the church of Oughteragh, amounting to thirteen townlands, can be identified as Church or cross land on the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (ibid. 75). The parish church might have been in use until the Church of Ireland built their present church in Ballinamore, c. 1km to the S, in 1787 (Lewis 1837, 2, 452). A small circular graveyard (diam. c. 30m) is depicted at the E end of a lane (L c. 70m) from a public road to the W on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The church is not marked but a St. Bridget’s Well is in the vicinity, probably outside the graveyard at NE. This well is no longer extant but it is one of two holy wells dedicated to St Bridget attached to this graveyard, the other (LE025-009----) being c. 550m to the NNE at Camagh, reached by the lane running E from the graveyard and a path through the fields northwards. The pattern involving the well in Camagh and the graveyard where there was a stone head known as St Bridget’s Head was held on the first day of February into the 1930s, according to the Schools Manuscript Collection from many local schools, but see this web-page accessed on 26/01/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658439/4655797 The stone head is now (LE025-118----) in the outer face of the wall behind the altar of the Roman Catholic church at Ballinamore, which was built in the 1960s, and the only remnant of the medieval church in the graveyard is a small pointed window-head. These are in the old graveyard that still has a masonry wall on its perimeter NW-E-SE, but is now part of a large rectangular graveyard (dims c. 75m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) that has been extended further to the SE and NE. (Gallogly 1991, 4-8) 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: 5 July 2017

• LE025-008002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a slight rise at the outer edge of a shelf towards the top of the E-facing slope of a broad drumlin. The site of the medieval parish church of Oughteragh (LE025-008001-) is within a small circular graveyard (diam. c. 30m) which is depicted at the E end of a lane (L c. 70m) from a public road to the W on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The old graveyard still has a masonry wall on its perimeter NW-E-SE, but is now part of a large rectangular graveyard (dims c. 75m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) that has been extended further to the SE and NE. The head of a pointed window from the church is in the graveyard, but a stone head known as St. Bridget’s Head (LE025-008004-) is now at the Roman Catholic church in Ballinamore (LE025-118----). There was a holy well dedicated to St Bridget (LE025-008003-) in the vicinity of the graveyard but its precise location is not known. The holy well (LE025-009----) c. 550m to the NNE is still frequented and reached by the lane running E from the graveyard and a path through the fields northwards. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 5 July, 2017

• LE025-008003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A stone head known as St Bridget’s Head played a prominent part in the pattern that was held on the first day of February into the 1930s, according to the Schools Manuscript Collection from many local schools, for which see this web-page accessed on 26/01/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658439/4655797 The stone head, which is a decorated face corbel from the medieval church and was in the old Oughteragh graveyard (LE025-008002-) is now displayed on the outer wall of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church at Ballinamore, which was built in the 1960s. (Gallogly 1991, 6) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 July, 2017

• LE025-008004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a broad drumlin, and N of the graveyard (LE025-008002-). Described in gothic lettering as ‘St. Bridget’s Well’ only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, it is one of two dedicated to St Bridget in Oughteragh parish, the other (LE025-009----) being c. 550m to the NNE in Camagh townland. The precise location of this well is not known (Gallogly 1991, 7), although it might be in the laneway leading to the old graveyard where there is now a shrine. It was not involved in the pattern of the 1930s as recorded in the Schools Manuscript Collection from many local schools, but see this web-page accessed on 26/01/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658439/4655797 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 July, 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1711 (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 Oughteragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Oughteragh · Uachtar Achaidh

Area

1,063,051 m² (106.31 ha, 262.69 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinamore electoral division: 1,317 people in 516 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camagh, Castlerogy, Cloverhill Or Corglass, Cornageeragh, Dromore, Drumbad, Fohera, Kiltygerry, Stradermot

Placenames

Oughteragh 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.