Leafin
Leafin is a townland in the civil parish of Nobber, barony of Morgallion, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 38 ha
- 94 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 1,852 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leafin, from 316 m² to 149,789 m² (14.98 ha, 37.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jul 2026N/a
Side/Front extension to existing dwelling house , and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660852
21 Sept 2022Conditional
the proposed development will consist of: (A) Renovation of the existing two-storey farmhouse, (B) Construction of a single-storey extension of approx. 115 sq m to the rear of the existing farmhouse, (C) Improve existing site vehicular entrance, (D) Install new sewage treatment system unit and percolation area, together with all associated siteworks
Permission · Meath County Council, 221239
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 Leafin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leafin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leafin.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leafin.
- 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
No address of the register names Leafin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Leafin
- Area
- 379,668 m² (37.97 ha, 93.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nobber, and its townlands
- Barony
- Morgallion
- Electoral division
- Nobber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 822 people lived in 294 households in the Nobber electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garmanagh, Muff, Rathgillen
- Placenames
- Leafin 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.