# Leons Beg, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Leamhain Bheag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 318,296 m² (31.83 ha, 78.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,789 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Magheracloone, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/magheracloone.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Lough Fea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 686 people lived in 234 households in the Lough Fea electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39590 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171313 - Centre: latitude 53.941081, longitude -6.714443 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leons Beg, from 110 m² to 64,805 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5622017: 64,805 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5622017.md - Parcel 344301: 35,554 m² (3.56 ha, 8.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344301.md - Parcel 334213: 30,037 m² (3 ha, 7.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/334213.md - Parcel 326826: 27,649 m² (2.76 ha, 6.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326826.md - Parcel 332686: 25,757 m² (2.58 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332686.md - Parcel 351352: 24,280 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351352.md - Parcel 355932: 19,256 m² (1.93 ha, 4.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/355932.md - Parcel 356367: 17,329 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356367.md - Parcel 352484: 13,732 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352484.md - Parcel 339293: 9,032 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339293.md - Parcel 332422: 6,618 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332422.md - Parcel 338634: 4,962 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/338634.md - Parcel 320865: 4,916 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320865.md - Parcel 4151076: 4,789 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4151076.md - Parcel 320823: 4,673 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320823.md - Parcel 350851: 3,511 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350851.md - Parcel 339290: 2,969 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339290.md - Parcel 339292: 2,767 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339292.md - Parcel 4151054: 2,493 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4151054.md - Parcel 324174: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324174.md - Parcel 339291: 2,421 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339291.md - Parcel 326459: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326459.md - Parcel 334441: 1,771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334441.md - Parcel 335501: 1,769 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/335501.md - Parcel 353637: 1,454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/353637.md - Parcel 318687: 1,443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/318687.md - Parcel 5727406: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5727406.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Leons Beg 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 17 Dec 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560510: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site boundaries and new site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560510/0 - 13 Aug 2024, Monaghan County Council 2460292: Conditional. Permission. permission to demolish existing single storey conservatory and construct single storey extension to side of existing single storey detached dwelling, internal alterations, and all associated site works at No. 2 The Wood, Leons Beg, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460292/0 - 8 Mar 2018, Monaghan County Council 1898: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house and all associated and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1898/0 - 29 Nov 2017, Monaghan County Council 17566: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for proposed single storey extension to existing commercial storage unit along with elevational changes and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17566/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Leons Beg. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO034-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO034-004----. Situated on a low hill. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1773). It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m NW-SE; int. diam. 33.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6.5m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) supporting a hedge SE-NW, and with slight traces of an outer fosse (D 0.1-0.3m) all around. There are entrance gaps at NW, NE, and SE, but none appear to be original. 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: 17 June 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 Leons Beg. ## 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 Leons Beg, 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leons Beg. - 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/leons-beg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leons-beg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leons-beg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Leons Beg 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) - Ballyloughan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/ballyloughan.md - Carrickashedoge: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carrickashedoge.md - Halftate: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/halftate.md - Leonsgarve or Leons (McKenna): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/leonsgarve-or-leons-mckenna.md - Mokeeran: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mokeeran.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/leons-beg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/leons-beg