Lehery
Lehery is a townland in the civil parish of Rathcline, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Leitheire.
- Area
- 360.1 ha
- 890 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 6,814 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lehery, from 241 m² to 548,827 m² (54.88 ha, 135.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lehery 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
8 Aug 2024Conditional
the proposed works for which permission is being sought consist of a new Water Pumping Station (WPS) and associated infrastructure. The proposed development will consist of: booster set kiosk (16.75m2 floor area and 49.4m3); site access gate (2.4m high); paladin security fencing (2.4m high); 2no. surge vessels (4m high); telemetry pole (6m high) & ESB minipillar; access road, layby area, hardstanding area and concrete hardstanding; connections to existing watermains and inlet / outlet piping; all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460168
17 Dec 2020Conditional
proposed construction of a Glamping Site with 5 No. Camping Pods with adjoining decking areas together with the proposed demolition of existing outhouse & the proposed construction of a single storey type structure in its place to be used as a communal building incorporating a kitchen, dining room, lounge area, bathroom, storage & laundry room, entrance, internal access room, onsite car parking, bundary fence's/walls, onsite wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20311
13 Feb 2020Conditional
to retain an existing domestic garage as constructed. Permission is sought for revised site boundaries, along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2033
15 Jul 2019Conditional
for to retain dwelling house and domestic garage as constructed on site from that granted under planning permission ref no. 04/125. also to retain conversion of attic to living accommodation and sun room constructed to gable of dwelling house, to open entrance at location already granted with permission ref no. 04/125 and all associated works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19190
14 Nov 2018Conditional
existing domestic garage and separate storage and all ancillary site works
Retention · Longford County Council, 18263
6 Jul 2017Conditional
proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house with attached sun lounge, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works. Alter the site boundaries so as to increase the size of the proposed site from what was originally applied for so as to facilitate the relocation of the proposed entrance in a North-Western direction than where it was originally applied to service the proposed development and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17186
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Bannow 000449
Recorded monuments
- LF017-005 Crannog
Description
Close to the centre of Lough Bannow. Marked on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped island (30m NNW–SSE; 25m ENE–WSW). When visited the lake was a swamp full of man-sized reeds and sally trees. Despite a thorough search it was not located. Another possible crannog (LF017-006----) lies c. 75m to the SSE. Compiled by: Christina Fredengren Date of upload: 22 November 2011
- LF017-006 Crannog
Description
In the S half of Lough Bannow. Marked on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small, irregularly shaped island (diam. c. 15m). When visited the lake was a swamp full of man-sized reeds and sally trees. Despite a thorough search it was not located. Another possible crannog (LF017-005----) lies c. 75m to the NNW. Compiled by: Christina Fredengren Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF017-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Lisclogh Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF017-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a NE-facing slope in pasture. A raised oval area (61.7m NW-SE; 54.2m NE-SW) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3m; H 0.5m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from SSE-S-NW. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is divided into three unequal portions by the remains of modern field boundaries. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lehery.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lehery, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1575 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
- Lehery, Lanesboro5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Lehery · Leitheire
- Area
- 3,600,531 m² (360.05 ha, 889.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcline, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Rathcline, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,700 people lived in 675 households in the Rathcline electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnacor, Derrygeel, Derryloughbannow, Derryshannoge, Killinure, Lissawly or St. Alban's, Magheraveen, Newpark, Tullyvrane, Turreen
- Placenames
- Lehery 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.