Shasgar

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shasgar, from 23 m² to 300,501 m² (30.05 ha, 74.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Shasgar 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.

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  (A) demolition of existing dwelling and outbuildings and (B) construction of a replacement dwelling, detached domestic outbuilding, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460083

• 2 Mar 2020Conditional

  kitchen and bathroom to existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2031

• 20 Dec 2019N/a

  for the upgrade of an existing farm entrance to a forestry standard entrance

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19287

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Aghavoghil Bog NHA 002430

Recorded monuments

• LE004-011 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On a shelf of rock at the N edge of a plateau with a cliff falling away immediately to the E. An oval cairn (dims 17m E-W; 12m N-S; max. H 2m) contains a single unsegmented roofless orthostatic chamber (dims 7m E-W; Wth 1.5m to 2.2m at W) with an entrance (Wth 0.75m) flanked by orthostats (H 0.9m) at W and traces of an oval court (dim. c. 8m E-W) at W. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 54-5) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Shasgar.

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

Name

Shasgar · An Seas Gearr

Area

1,011,266 m² (101.13 ha, 249.89 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Melvin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan, Lissiniska, Mautiagh, Mollynadinta, Roosky

Placenames

Shasgar 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.