Sheffield

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheffield, from 178 m² to 110,975 m² (11.1 ha, 27.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Sheffield 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.

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  (a) construct 2 storey type domestic dwellings; and, (b) construct a new site entrance and wastewater treatment system to current EPA code of Practice together with all ancillary works

  Outline permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360054

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, part single storey, part two storey, a single storey domestic garage, widening of an existing entrance gateway, onsite waste water treatment system to comply with EPA code of practice, connection to services, landscaping works, and all associated works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2214

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  to erect 1 no. dry bed sheep shed complete with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20215

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 Sheffield.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 42m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an overgrown, round-topped, steep-sided bank (at N: Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 2.1m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at N: Wth of base 3.8m; D 1.1m) from a rounded, steep-sided bank (at N: Wth 2m; ext. H 0.4m) W-NE. These features have been removed elsewhere but the inner bank can be traced as a low scarp. 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

• LE027-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.2m at E to 0.45m at W; max. ext. H 1.95m at W) which is incorporated into a field bank at N, and traces of an external fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.25m) and outer bank (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) S-SW. 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

• LE027-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a NE-SW drumlin ridge at its NE end. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 41.5m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank at W (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.55m), and by an overgrown scarp (max. H 1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse and 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 Sheffield.

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 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_1480 (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 Sheffield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Sheffield · Caológa Créithir

Area

729,279 m² (72.93 ha, 180.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Leitrim electoral division: 1,380 people in 500 households; 80% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinwing, Drumduff South, Killarcan, Kilmaghera, Mullaghsallagh, Newbrook, Tawnycurry

Placenames

Sheffield 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.