Legaun

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legaun, from 57 m² to 78,843 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

• M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREAS TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17165

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 Legaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legaun.

Architectural heritage

• Holy Trinity Church (Balla), church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Church of Ireland church, begun 1865; consecrated 1867; closed 1963; demolished 1965, including: Freestanding single-bay two-stage tower on a square plan supporting spire. Lichen-covered sandstone ashlar-banded drag edged tooled limestone ashlar spire with remains of finial to apex. Part ivy-covered sandstone ashlar-banded tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered walls with drag edged tooled hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Lancet openings (bell stage) with drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals. Set in unkempt grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Legaun, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Legaun.

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.

No address of the register names Legaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Legaun · An Liagán

Area

725,197 m² (72.52 ha, 179.2 acres)

Civil parish

Balla, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Balla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,661 people lived in 631 households in the Balla electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balla, Ballyrourke, Dooros, Drumadoon, Moat, Prison South

Placenames

Legaun 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.