# Legghimore, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheross, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Na Leachta Móra. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 722,827 m² (72.28 ha, 178.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,969 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheross, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheross.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Carrickmacross Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,291 people lived in 1,518 households in the Carrickmacross Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39332 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171303 - Centre: latitude 53.995518, longitude -6.744175 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legghimore, from 276 m² to 134,666 m² (13.47 ha, 33.28 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 346431: 134,666 m² (13.47 ha, 33.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346431.md - Parcel 327158: 115,086 m² (11.51 ha, 28.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/327158.md - Parcel 316341: 88,437 m² (8.84 ha, 21.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316341.md - Parcel 323521: 80,377 m² (8.04 ha, 19.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323521.md - Parcel 353991: 76,234 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353991.md - Parcel 356119: 64,704 m² (6.47 ha, 15.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356119.md - Parcel 342497: 29,807 m² (2.98 ha, 7.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342497.md - Parcel 318572: 26,646 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318572.md - Parcel 330037: 20,031 m² (2 ha, 4.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330037.md - Parcel 356345: 19,898 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356345.md - Parcel 332618: 18,982 m² (1.9 ha, 4.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332618.md - Parcel 333977: 10,969 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333977.md - Parcel 316007: 6,980 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316007.md - Parcel 317380: 6,287 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317380.md - Parcel 334950: 5,101 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334950.md - Parcel 2582461: 4,247 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2582461.md - Parcel 3402603: 3,642 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3402603.md - Parcel 319797: 3,248 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319797.md - Parcel 3362171: 2,508 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3362171.md - Parcel 353620: 2,420 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353620.md - Parcel 352450: 1,835 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352450.md - Parcel 4848916: 724 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4848916.md - Parcel 353770: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353770.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Legghimore 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) No planning application touches the townland of Legghimore in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Legghimore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO031-005: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-005----. Located in a fold towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. This is depicted as an embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but it is not represented on the 1907 edition. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, but it can be seen as the parch-mark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the OSI aerial images (2005). 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: 27 July 2017 - MO031-007: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-007----. Situated on a NW-SE ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is an oval overgrown area (dims c. 38m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at NW: Wth of base 7.6m; Wth of top 1.6m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 4.2m) and outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6.7m; Wth of base 2.6m; ext. D 2.2m). There is a gap (Wth of base 1.2m) in the bank at NW but the original entrance (Wth of base 2.6m) and causeway (Wth of top 1.4m; H 0.65m) are at SE. 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: 27 July 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legghimore. ## 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 Legghimore, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2637, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2637.zip (ZIP). - 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/legghimore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/legghimore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/legghimore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Legghimore 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) - Aghalile: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghalile.md - Beagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/beagh-170166.md - Derryolam: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/derryolam.md - Drumbroagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumbroagh.md - Lisnaguiveragh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisnaguiveragh.md - Nafarty: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/nafarty.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/legghimore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/legghimore