Legganhall
Townland in the civil parish of Moorechurch, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath; in Irish Logán an Hálaigh
- Area
- 93.2 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,296 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legganhall, from 366 m² to 220,959 m² (22.1 ha, 54.6 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 29 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
3 Dec 2021Conditional
the development will consist of an extension to the existing authorised land reclamation site granted under LB/171285 using the same entrance, site access roadway (0.285 ha), wheelwash, portable office and chemical toilet. It is proposed to carry out the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within an area of 4.391 hectares for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 96,633 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation subject to a maximum of 25,000 tonnes per annum
Permission · Meath County Council, 212284
19 Jan 2018Conditional
to construct proposed private residence, detached domestic garage, install proposed wastewater treatment and percolation area, block up existing agricultural entrance and install new entrance onto main road, remove existing sheds, including all ancillary site works at townlands
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB180045
22 Dec 2017N/a
to construct proposed private residence, detached domestic garage,install proposed wastewater treatment and percolation area, block up existing agricultural entrance and install new entrance onto main road, remove existing sheds, including all ancillary site works at Legganhall, Bellewstown, Co Meath
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB171522
3 Nov 2017Conditional
the development will consist of land reclamation using inert soil and stones. The proposed works will be subject to a waste management permit for the recovery of <25,000 tonnes per annum for a period of c. 5 years, not to exceed 100,000 tonnes in total. A temporary wheelwash, portable office and chemical toilet and other ancillaries will be provided for the duration of the works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB171285
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 Legganhall.
Recorded monuments
- ME027-112 Enclosure
Description
Located on a SE-facing slope with a col c. 20m to the NE and a hill c. 500m to the ENE. The cropmark of a perfectly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a continuous fosse is only visible as on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The cropmark of a N-S field drain is immediately to the W. The enclosure is also faintly visible on OSI Images (c. 2017), and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced image from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legganhall.
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 Legganhall.
- 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 Legganhall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Legganhall · Logán an Hálaigh
- Area
- 931,690 m² (93.17 ha, 230.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moorechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Julianstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Julianstown electoral division: 11,501 people in 3,991 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Collierstown, Kennetstown, Lacystown, Mullaghteelin, Rudder
- Placenames
- Legganhall 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.