Leitrim Beg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim Beg, from 2,530 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 350,404 m² (35.04 ha, 86.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Leitrim Beg 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.

• 14 Apr 2005Conditional

  Retention of extensions to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2371

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 Leitrim Beg.

Recorded monuments

• CO104-005 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On narrow level shoulder on S-facing upper slope, at end of W extension Sugarloaf Mountain overlooking Bantry Bay; buried in bog. Partly collapsed gallery (L 3.3m; Wth c. 1m) aligned NE-SW; each side represented by two sidestones, backstone at E end, fallen closing or septal-stone to W. Two displaced roofstones lie in chamber area, covering two fallen outer-wall stones to N. Incorporated in mound, 8.5m by 7m. (O Nualláin 1989, 136) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO104-006 Standing stone
  Description

  On SW foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain overlooking Bantry Bay to S. Rectangular stone aligned ENE-WSW (H 2.6m; 1.05m x 0.35m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO104-026 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on bog, on a S-facing slope with a view over Trafrask Harbour and Bantry Bay. The remains of a relict stone field boundary (T 0.5m; H 0.45m) defined by stones which protrude intermittently above the surface of the bog and extend (L c. 35m) in a general N-S direction and then turn in an E direction for c. 40m. A dense cover of moor grass, gorse and heather obscures most of the stones. A plantation of coniferous trees is growing to the S, W and N of this relict field boundary. A fire break is to the E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Leitrim Beg.

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 Leitrim Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Leitrim Beg · Liatroim Beag

Area

709,542 m² (70.95 ha, 175.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcaskan, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Adrigole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Adrigole electoral division: 497 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahown, Dromateebara, Glenlough, Keeltrasna, Leitrim More

Placenames

Leitrim Beg 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.