Legan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgeever, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Liagán
- Area
- 46.3 ha
- 114 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 5,884 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legan, from 146 m² to 100,767 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Legan 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
3 Jul 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: construct barn and shed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25264
11 Apr 2024Conditional
construction of a new front boundary wall and driveway, alterations to the existing house to include the application of external insulation, rear and side extensions to the existing house, the upgrading of an existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works in addition the extension of a side porch and alterations to all elevations
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460204
27 Nov 2023N/a
Section 5 Declaration; mobile field shelter for horses over winter
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23627
16 Nov 2023Conditional
The development will consist of the construction of a new front boundary wall and driveway, alterations to the existing house to include the application of external insulation, rear and side extensions to the existing house, the upgrading of an existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360475
10 May 2023Refused
retention planning for the demolition of an existing front boundary wall and shed along with the laying of a foundation for a new shed and will consist of the construction of two sheds and a barn along with a rear and side extension to an existing house and upgrading of an existing wastewater treatment system for same and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23263
23 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20791
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Oldhead Wood SAC 000532
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Oldhead Wood 000532
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legan.
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 high, 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 Legan.
- 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 Legan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Legan · An Liagán
- Area
- 462,668 m² (46.27 ha, 114.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgeever, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Louisburgh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Louisburgh electoral division: 1,117 people in 446 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balloor, Derrylahan, Oldhead
- Placenames
- Legan 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.