Lecarrow
Townland in the civil parish of Clonmacnoise, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Leithcheathrú
- Area
- 92.3 ha
- 228 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 7,829 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow, from 740 m² to 189,217 m² (18.92 ha, 46.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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
No zone of a development plan covers Lecarrow 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Sept 2026N/a
the change of house type under previously granted permission (planning reference number - 2560060) and including all ancillary associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660469
5 Mar 2025Conditional
1. SITE ACCESS 2. CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE 3. CONSTRUCTION OF GARAGE 4. EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM 5. ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560060
19 Dec 2022Conditional
DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF CHANGE OF PLAN TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING APPLICATION (REF: PL2/18/163), NAMELY DOWNSCALING THE FOOTPRINT OF THE NEW BUILDING PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT, AMENDING FLOOR LAYOUT, RETAINING LADY'S TOILET & REMOVAL OF PROPOSED MEN'S TOILET FACILITIES, REFEREE'S CHANGING ROOM AND LINK CORRIDOR TO EXISTING DRESSING ROOM
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22650
1 Dec 2022N/a
CHANGE OF PLAN TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING APPLICATION (REF:PL18/163), NAMELY DOWNSCALING THE FOOTPRINT OF THE NEW BUILDING PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT, AMENDING FLOOR LAYOUT, RETAINING LADIES TOILET & REMOVAL OF PROPOSED MEN'S TOILET FACILITIES, REFEREES CHANGING ROOM AND LINK CORRIDOR TO EXISTING DRESSING ROOM
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22619
21 Jun 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19293
24 Aug 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18366
18 Apr 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BUILDING ADJACENT TO EXISTING DRESSING ROOMS CONTAINING A MULTI-PURPOSE FITNESS CENTRE, NEW PUBLIC TOILETS, SHOWERS & EQUIPMENT STORE. ALSO, PROVISION OF NEW FLOODLIGHTING SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A WALKING TRACK AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE PLAYING FIELD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18163
18 Dec 2017Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17499
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 Lecarrow.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lecarrow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lecarrow.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1523 (ZIP).
- 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 Lecarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Lecarrow · An Leithcheathrú
- Area
- 923,210 m² (92.32 ha, 228.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmacnoise, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Shannonbridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shannonbridge electoral division: 272 people in 122 households; 87% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Charlestown, Clondelara, Clonever, Garrymore
- Placenames
- Lecarrow 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.