Ummera
Townland in the civil parish of Annaduff, barony of Mohill, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An tIomaire
- Area
- 30.3 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 12,463 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ummera, from 7,954 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres) to 97,118 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ummera 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Dec 2019Conditional
(a) construct replacement dwelling comprising part two storey, part single storey, detached domestic garage, new bellmouth entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation, landscaping and associated site development works (b) convert old dwelling to out building and decommission existing septic tank
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19286
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ummera.
Recorded monuments
- LE032-079 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in pasture towards the bottom of a W-facing slope, with the headwaters of a small canalised S-N stream c. 50m to the W. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’ and it is depicted as a hachured D-shaped enclosure whose perimeter is incorporated into a field bank SW-N on the 1945 revision. No archaeological features is visible at ground level, but it is probably a rath. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 December 2011 Amended: 6 December, 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ummera.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ummera.
- 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 Ummera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Ummera · An tIomaire
- Area
- 302,707 m² (30.27 ha, 74.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaduff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Mohill
- Electoral division
- Drumod, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumod electoral division: 1,010 people in 376 households; 72% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ummera 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.