Leek

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Leek, from 829,343 m² (82.93 ha, 204.94 acres) to 829,343 m² (82.93 ha, 204.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Leek 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  planning permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, together with other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660230

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Monmurray Grassland 000562

Recorded monuments

• MO007-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on the N bank of a small W-E stream c. 550m W of its confluence with the N-S River Blackwater and the boundary with Co. Tyrone. This is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oval feature (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by a field bank and described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. This is an overgrown area that slopes down steeply to the S, but no archaeological features can be detected at an unlikely location. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Leek House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, having canted front (north-east), with extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with timber eaves, clay ridge tiles and red brick chimneystack. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond having rubble stone plinth course with tooled limestone coping. Coursed rubble stone to extension. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings having render surrounds, tooled limestone sills and timber casement windows. Gauged-brick square-headed door opening to north-west face with render surround and timber battened door opening onto tooled limestone step. Single-arch bridge over stream to south-east of building, round arch having tooled limestone voussoirs, rubble stone to parapet and spandrel walls. Gateway to south-east of bridge comprising cast-iron railings on tooled stone plinth wall, square-plan tooled limestone piers with recessed panels and pointed capping flanking double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate.

• Leek House, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1800, with dormer floor, having lean-to extension to south-west with gable-fronted single-storey block forming return, and two-storey gabled return to rear (north-west) elevation, with lean-to extensions to north-east elevations of returns. Recent porch to front (south-east) elevation. Pitched slate roof having half-dormer windows to front elevation. Terracotta ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystacks with clay chimneypots, terracotta ball finials to dormer windows, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roofs and red brick chimneystacks to returns. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to main building, roughcast render having render plinth course to rear. Square-headed window openings throughout, with painted render sills and replacement uPVC windows. Moulded render hood-mouldings to ground floor front windows, one having recent render surround. Square-headed window openings to rear and side elevations with render reveals, concrete sills and replacement aluminium and uPVC windows. Two-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof, red brick chimneystack, and replacement rainwater goods, roughcast rendered rubble limestone and sandstone walls, square-headed window openings to first floor, now blocked, and square-headed door openings to ground floor having timber battened doors. House set back from road in landscaped 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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Leek.

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.

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

Name

Leek · Liagaigh

Area

829,762 m² (82.98 ha, 205.04 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Glaslough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glaslough electoral division: 964 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbeg, Corraghdown, Monmurry, Mullaliss

Placenames

Leek 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.