# Leitra, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonmacnoise, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Liataire. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,963,991 m² (496.4 ha, 1,226.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 80,121 m² (8.01 ha, 19.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonmacnoise, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/clonmacnoise.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Shannonbridge, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41564 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180894 - Centre: latitude 53.290544, longitude -7.982396 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitra, from 4,294 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres) to 2,742,240 m² (274.22 ha, 677.62 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4912552: 2,742,240 m² (274.22 ha, 677.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4912552.md - Parcel 4912529: 1,214,758 m² (121.48 ha, 300.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4912529.md - Parcel 278390: 336,860 m² (33.69 ha, 83.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278390.md - Parcel 297364: 307,987 m² (30.8 ha, 76.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297364.md - Parcel 294679: 114,640 m² (11.46 ha, 28.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294679.md - Parcel 277249: 45,601 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277249.md - Parcel 6083861: 29,983 m² (3 ha, 7.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6083861.md - Parcel 278389: 24,568 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278389.md - Parcel 281445: 12,006 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281445.md - Parcel 295918: 4,294 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295918.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Leitra 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 2 Jul 2020, Offaly County Council 20266: Conditional. Retention. CONTINUED USE OF AN EXISTING GUYED WIND MONITORING MAST, WITH INSTRUMENTS, 80M IN HEIGHT FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OF THREE YEARS. THE PURPOSE OF THE MAST IS TO ACCESSS THE SUITABILITY OF THE COMPANY'S ADJACENT LANDS FOR WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. PREVIOUS PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE NUMBERS: PL2/09/125, PL2/17/116. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20266/0 - 4 Apr 2017, Offaly County Council 17116: Conditional. Retention. AN EXISTING GUYED WIND MONITORING MAST, WITH INSTRUMENTS, 80 METRES IN HEIGHT. THE PURPOSE OF THE MAST IS TO ASSESS THE SUITABILITY OF THE COMPANY'S ADJACENT LANDS FOR WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT. PREVIOUS PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE NUMBER: PL2/09/125. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17116/0 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 Leitra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF013-006001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF013-006001-. Situated on a rise of ground on natural island surrounded by bog. Small two storey square shaped house (6.5m N-S; 6.2m E-W; wall T 0.9m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with wooden floor carried in small rectangular joists. Access by a destroyed flat headed door at the centre of E wall which gives access to the ground floor which is lit by two gun loops in the W wall and a destroyed window at E end of N wall. Possible wooden stairs located against S wall because of lack of features indicating floor joists . The first floor is well lit by four large windows one in each wall with a fireplace built into the NE angle of the room with rectangular chimney stack above. No dressed stone visible. Probably 17th-century in date with possible destroyed bawn to the E of the building. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF013-013: Road - class 3 togher, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF013-013----. The site (Wth 0.94m; D 0.14m) is orientated E-W and composed if two layers of longitudinal birch roundwoods and hazel and alder brushwood (diam. 0.03-0.07m) on a substructure of brushwood and twigs (diam. 0.003-0.025m). Some of the roundwoods are split and others cut to wedge points. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF013-015: Road - class 1 togher, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF013-015----. This site (L 235m; Wth 1.29m; D 0.09m) is orientated E-W and appears to extend from Leitra bog island to a gravel knoll in the bog. It was recorded over several fields but in some it has been destroyed. It varies in construction along its length. At one sighting it consists of a possible hurdle panel of hazel brushwood (diam. 0.01.5-0.032m) and at another location it is composed of longitudinal birch roundwoods. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF013-035: Road - class 3 togher, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF013-035----. The site (L 1.1m min.; Wth 0.6m) is orientated E-W and composed of a damaged hurdle panel of hazel brushwood. Four sails (diam. 0.016-0.024m) and 15 rods (av. diam. 0.03m) were recorded. Toolmarks are present. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011 - OF013-036: Structure - peatland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF013-036----. An irregular deposit of worked brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.025m) with evidence of burning on one piece. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1992. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011 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 Leitra. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leitra. - 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/offaly/leitra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/leitra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/leitra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Leitra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clondelara: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clondelara.md - Clonfinlough: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonfinlough.md - Cloniff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloniff.md - Clorhane: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clorhane.md - Creevagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creevagh.md - Curraghmore: https://everytownland.com/offaly/curraghmore-180543.md - Gurrawirra: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gurrawirra.md - Tullaghbeg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tullaghbeg.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/offaly/leitra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/leitra