Skreeny

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skreeny, from 593 m² to 63,520 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Enterprise and Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  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.

No planning application touches the townland of Skreeny in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE007-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the SW-facing slope of a drumlin on the N side of the W-E Glenfarne valley at is W end. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) defined by a round-topped earthen bank (at SW: Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m), and an outer fosse (Wth 1.1m; D.0.2m), which is visible at W. There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at WSW. Rath (LE007-069----) is c. 90m to the N and rath (LE007-0071----) is c. 60m to the SW. 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

• LE007-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the S-facing slope of a drumlin on the N side of the E-W Glenfarne valley at its W end. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 26m) defined by a steep-sided, round-topped earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H. 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) and an intermittently visible fosse or ditch (Wth of base 1m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE007-070----) is c. 60m to the NE. 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

• LE007-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape at the W end of the E-W Glenfarne valley, with a small NNE-SSW stream c. 50-85m distant SW-NW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m) defined by an overgrown, steep-sided and round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.15m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.15). The original entrance is not identified and It is now used as a paddock. 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

• LE007-073 Country house
  Description

  Located on a S-facing slope and at the S edge of an area with mature deciduous trees. There is a N-S stream c. 10m to the E. This is reputed to be of 17th century date and it was owned by Cullen family until the post-famine period when it served as a hospital in a cholera epidemic, although Cullen is not amongst grantees of the 1620s (Mac an Ghallóglaigh 1971, 254). It was demolished c. 1850 after the Cullens had moved to Glenade House (Faughnan 1943, 142). This is a rectangular structure (int. dims 11.6m E-W; 6.6m N-S) of which only the SW angle survives (H c. 5m), and fragments of other walls (T 0.65-0.75m), which contain brick. There is an entrance porch (int. dims 2.6m E-W; 1.75m N-) with chamfered quoins at the centre of the N wall. There are no diagnostic features, but the house is probably 18th century. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 January, 2016

• LE007-074 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on top of a prominent drumlin that is almost centrally placed amongst the five valleys that meet at Manorhamilton c. 850m to the SW. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. 9.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) and an outer fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.25m). The monument is bisected by an E-W field bank and is a possible tree-ring. 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

• LE007-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a rise that is almost centrally placed amongst the five valleys that meet at Manorhamilton c. 1.1 km to the SW. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (int. diam. 26m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an overgrown, steep-sided and round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.25m at W to 0.55m at ENE; ext. H 1.05m at SW) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.2m). 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

• LE007-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a prominent drumlin that is almost centrally placed amongst the five valleys that meet at Manorhamilton c. 900m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.1m; H 0.7m), which is incorporated into a field bank and hedge S-N-E but is reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.5m) E-S. The monument is bisected E-W by a disused farm track, but 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 Skreeny.

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_1393 (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 Skreeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Skreeny · Scrínidh

Area

605,185 m² (60.52 ha, 149.54 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

Curraghfore, Curraghfore, Donagh Beg, Manorhamilton, Skreeny, Skreeny Little

Placenames

Skreeny 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.