Tawnytallan

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnytallan, from 436 m² to 134,504 m² (13.45 ha, 33.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  Construction of 15 No. houses, consisting of 8 No. detached four-bedroom storey-and-a-half type houses, 6 No. semi-detached two-bedroom bungalows, 1 No. detached five-bedroom bungalow and completion of the roads and services at Aigean Croith Development (as previously granted under Planning Permission Ref: PL.04/1667) on our site at Duncarbry Townland, Tullaghan

  Permission, 15 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2560308

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  1. To sub-divide the existing dwelling into 1no. 6 bed house and 1no. 1 bed apartment. 2. To construct single storey extensions to the East & South of the existing dwelling. 3. To construct a first-floor extension over an existing single storey extension including the construction of a two-storey bay window to the West. 4. To make alterations to window & door openings, chimneys and existing porch. 5. To construct a new site entrance 6. To connect to the existing public foul sewer mains together with all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560275

• 19 Apr 2023N/a

  construct 12 No detached houses and completion of the roads and services at Aigean Croith Development ( as previously granted under Planning Permission Ref: PL 04/1667 )

  Permission, 12 homes · Leitrim County Council, 2354

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 Tawnytallan.

Recorded monuments

• LE001-030 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the SE end of a small ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 28.8m NE-SW) defined by a stone-covered scarp (H 1.65m at NW to 3m at NE) with foundations of the wall visible W-NW. 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

• LE001-063001 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  In the porch of the Roman Catholic church at Tullaghan. Originally from a cashel at Doobally, probably (LE001-035----), c. 1.3km to the ESE. This is a globular sandstone boulder (H 0.52m) which has a flat top (dims 0.58 x 0.54m) with a single basin (diam. 0.35m; D 0.2m). There are traces of pecking in the basin and around the top of the stone, and it may have been used as a stoup. A limestone plaque (LE001-063002-) from the same ringfort has been installed on the wall of the porch. It has an incised inscription in Latin commemorating Rev. Eugene Magowan who founded a chapel in '177?'. (Ó Gallachair 1958, 28-9) 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

• LE001-063002 Inscribed stone (present location)
  Description

  A limestone plaque (dims 1m x 0.34-0.38m) from a ringfort in Doobally, probably (LE001-035----), has been installed on the wall of the porch of Tullaghan Roman Catholic church. It is broken on the right-hand side and has an incised inscription in Latin commemorating Rev. Eugene Magowan who founded a chapel in 177?. The bullaun stone (LE001-063001-) from the same location is also in the porch. The inscription reads: VOS OMNES QVI TRANSI (TIS OR) / ATE PRO REVERENDO PA (TR) / E EVGENIO MAGOWAN HVIVS (CAP) / PILLAE DONDITORE ANN (od) / …OMNI 177(?) (Ó Gallachair 1958, 28 9) 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: 11 December 2015

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell Roman Catholic church, built c.1930, with six-bay nave, projecting porch and sacristy. Freestanding bell tower to south-west. Pitched slate roof with stone cross finials to gable ends. Flat felt roof to porch and hipped slate roof to sacristy with rendered chimneystack. Ruled-and-lined render to walls, plinth course and quoins. Cornice to porch. Buttresses divide window openings. Pointed traceried windows with stained glass and traceried lancets with stucco surrounds and stone sills. Drop-arched door opening with moulded surround, hood moulding and timber battened double doors with limestone threshold. Bell tower has masonry structure and pyramidal slate roof.

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1231 (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 Tawnytallan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Tawnytallan · Tamhnaigh an tSalainn

Area

483,683 m² (48.37 ha, 119.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Tullaghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullaghan electoral division: 755 people in 318 households; 71% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharroo, Duncarbry, Gargrim, Wardhouse

Placenames

Tawnytallan 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.