Ross
Townland in the civil parish of Cloonclare, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Ros
- Area
- 118 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 4,198 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ross, from 37 m² to 153,707 m² (15.37 ha, 37.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 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
21 Jan 2022Conditional
(a) change the use of an existing derelict building into a commercial office/lab building, (b) renovate restore and extend the existing derelict building, (c) construct a new site entrance and to develop the site to accommodate for car parking, access and landscaping, (d) connect all public services and all ancillary works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 226
22 Dec 2020Refused
to; I)construct a 6 bay double slatted sheep shed, 2) construct a four bay double lambing shed with adjoining dipping bond to service a mobile sheep handling unit, 3) demolish two existing sheds along with an already decommissioned septic tank and all ancillary site works at
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20229
17 Dec 2018Conditional
construct a two storey type domestic dwelling, domestic garage, new site access, construct a new waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18275
2 May 2017Conditional
construct a freestanding building to provide ASD accommodation which will consist of one classroom and ancillary accommodation, floor area 167sqm and associated site works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1779
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
- LE011-012 Earthwork
Description
Marked faintly as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located on a rise c. 40m E of a canalized NNW-SSE section of a stream in low-lying, boggy grassland. No feature is visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April, 2016
- LE011-016 Crannog
Description
Marked only on the 1945 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a crannog site. It is situated in a marshy area on the floor of the Bonet River valley, with a small S-N stream c. 20m to the E. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims 14m E-W; 10m N-S; H 0.1-0.2m) with no visible surface evidence of artificial construction. 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 Ross.
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.
- 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 Ross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Ross · An Ros
- Area
- 1,179,627 m² (117.96 ha, 291.49 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
- Carrickleitrim, Cloonclare, Clooneen, Cloonlogher, Larkfield, Manorhamilton, Ramooney, Tawnymanus, Tuckmillpark
- Placenames
- Ross 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.