Leenane

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leenane, from 101 m² to 93,061 m² (9.31 ha, 23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C5Special Policy Area (Tourism and related)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Decommissioning of existing septic tank system servicing existing dwelling house and installation of new replacement wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6555

• 21 Nov 2023Conditional

  Construction of a replacement garage consisting of a garage/domestic store at ground level ancillary accommodation at first floor (consisting of an en-suite bedroom and kitchen/dining room

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/657

• 24 Oct 2023Incompleted application

  Construction of a replacement garage consisting of a garage / domestic store at ground level ancillary accommodation at first floor (consisting of an en-suite bedroom, and kitchen / dining room)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/599

• 14 Jul 2021Unconditional

  Permission for: (i) demolition of existing dwellinghouse, (ii) construction of new dwelling house, (iii) installation of new wastewater treatment system and (iv) all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/485

• 20 Dec 2016Conditional

  Permission for: (I) demolition of existing dwelling house, (ii) construction of new dwelling house, (iii) installation of new wastewater treatment system and (iv) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/792

• 30 Nov 2006Conditional

  Single storey dwelling, upgrading of existing access road and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2541

• 1 Mar 2006Withdrawn

  Dwelling & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/320

• 24 Jan 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of dwelling & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/62

• 14 Feb 2001Refused

  Dwellinghouse with garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/628

• 9 Feb 1999Conditional

  Demolition of timber dwelling & construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/556

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Barley Cove to Ballyrisode Point SAC 001040
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barley Cove To Ballyrisode Point 001040

Recorded monuments

• CO147-045 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On SE-facing slope of low mountain ridge above Crook Haven, c. 500m S of tombs in Arduslough (CO147-048001-) and Tooreen (CO147-048002-). Chamber (L 3.2m; Wth 1.3m) open to SW; each side represented by single sidestones; backstone at E end. Two tall stones to SW may represent some form of entrance feature. Incorporated in oval mound, 14.5m NE-SW; 11.5m NW-SE, from which a number of stones protrude. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 40-1, Co. 60) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)

• CO147-046 Fish palace
  Description

  Remains of Sir William Hulls 17th century fish curing complex on N shore of Crookhaven. Overgrown rectangular enclosure (26m E-W; 18m N-S); rectangular roofless one-storey structure on S side with double-sided central fireplace. According to Went (1946, 146), W wall of enclosure was used as support for press beams; three rectangular perforations (H 0.14m; Wth 0.23m) at 1.48m above ground level are now visible. Small raised sub-rectangular enclosure on N side with collapsed central dividing wall which, according to Went (1946, 146), was used as support for press beam. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Leenane, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Leenane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Leenane · An Líonán

Area

392,001 m² (39.2 ha, 96.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoe, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Crookhaven, the unit of the census

Census 2022

205 people lived in 94 households in the Crookhaven electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 63% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arduslough, Ballynaule, Killeane, Tooreen

Placenames

Leenane 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.