# Leek, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Liagaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 829,762 m² (82.98 ha, 205.04 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 829,343 m² (82.93 ha, 204.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Donagh, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donagh.md - Barony: Trough - Electoral division: Glaslough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 964 people lived in 325 households in the Glaslough electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40779 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171299 - Centre: latitude 54.341305, longitude -6.88213 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 334395: 829,343 m² (82.93 ha, 204.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334395.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Jun 2026, Monaghan County Council 2660230: N/a. Permission. planning permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, together with other associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660230/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Monmurray Grassland, site code 000562 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO007-004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO007-004----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Leek House, gate lodge, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41400719, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400719. 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, registry number 41400720, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41400720. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Leek, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leek.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leek.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leek.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Leek with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annaghbeg: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annaghbeg.md - Corraghdown: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corraghdown.md - Monmurry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/monmurry.md - Mullaliss: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullaliss.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leek - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/leek