Leamcon

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leamcon, from 137 m² to 282,636 m² (28.26 ha, 69.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Leamcon 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.

• 8 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct an entrance to agricultural land

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560728

• 25 Apr 2025Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 278.60 sqm(H), 60.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560501

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  of (a) for retention of variations to dwellinghouse and site development works approved under planning reference no. 19/545 on revised site boundaries, (b) for retention of ground floor extension and internal alterations to this dwellinghouse including attic storage space provision, and, (c) for retention of ancillary domestic garage.Gross floor space of work to be retained 183.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261300

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 225 sqm, G: 45 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21228

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  for 1.) Retention and completion of groundworks on revised site boundaries and 2.) Permission for proposed alterations to house design and garage and all associated site works, pervious ref. no. 15/679. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 255.4 sqm, Garage - 50.8 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191153

• 23 May 2019N/a

  and completion of alterations to dwelling house and garage on revised site boundaries. Previous ref. no. 15/679. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 255.4 sqm, Garage - 50.80 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19790

• 16 Apr 2019Conditional

  for revised house plans form those previously approved under planning reference 10/238 and extended under planning reference number 15/250. Gross floor space of proposed works: 175.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19568

• 11 Apr 2019Conditional

  for revised house plans from those previously approved under planning reference number 10/825 and extended under planning reference number 15/251. Gross floor space of proposed works: 194 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19545

• 13 Sept 2018Conditional

  for construction of new dwelling house, along with an on-site sewage treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works, 253sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181301

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Leamcon.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in low-lying marshland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 36m) defined by a low bank; external stone-facing is visible from SSW to WSW. Numerous gaps breach the bank and the monument is overgrown with thistles. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 January 2018

• GA105-145 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In low-lying rough pastureland, c. 20m to the SW of a small stream. Named ‘Tobermacduagh’ on the 1838 and 1929 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of Upload: 12 April 2023

• GA105-146 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (c. 40m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW). On inspection in October 1986 no visible surface trace survived. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 April 2019

• GA115-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 20m) defined by a bank and external fosse. No visible surface trace of the bank survives at E and the fosse is infilled in places and overgrown with briars. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 January 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leamcon.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leamcon.

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.

No address of the register names Leamcon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Leamcon · Léim Con

Area

743,315 m² (74.33 ha, 183.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteskill, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilteskill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilteskill electoral division: 393 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acre More, Aille, Ballyeighter, Loughaun, Masonbrook

Placenames

Leamcon 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.