Leemount

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leemount, from 138 m² to 245,823 m² (24.58 ha, 60.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Leemount 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.

• 9 May 2019Conditional

  Retention for existing single storey extensions and covered canopy area to existing dwellinghouse, retention of existing first floor which includes rooflights and windows, retention of existing domestic garage and outhouses.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5172

• 24 May 2013Conditional

  1) Demolish the existing single storey extension to the rear of existing dwellinghouse and construct a new one and a half storey extension to the rear of the existing dwellinghouse with associated alterations. 2) Construct an extension to the rear of the existing single storey extension to the side of existing dwellinghouse and to raise the existing roof level of the single storey section to the side of the dwellinghouse to extend existing first floor accommodation. 3) Construct a self containing apartment within the dwellinghouse. 4) Demolish the existing adjoined domestic garage, all with associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4976

• 15 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted cattle house and associated concrete yards

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6103

• 13 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dormer extension to dwelling and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5478

• 2 Feb 2006Incompleted application

  Extension to dwellinghouse and construction of garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4521

• 29 Apr 2003Conditional

  Installation of sewage treatment plant and irrigation area to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2019

• 29 Apr 2003Conditional

  Installation of sewage treatment plant and irrigation area connected to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2017

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 Leemount.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leemount.

Architectural heritage

• Leemount, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, having single-storey box-bay windows with connecting canopy to front (south) and two-storey lean-to extension to rear (north). Hipped slate roof with redbrick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and carved timber bargeboard to canopy. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and uPVC casement windows to ground floor bay windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed uPVC door and side panels. Single- and-two-storey former farmyard structures to rear of site having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs. Rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber casement windows and timber battened doors. Square-profile gate piers to front of site with wrought-iron gates. Set within own grounds.

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 Leemount, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Leemount · Ard na Laoi

Area

417,256 m² (41.73 ha, 103.11 acres)

Civil parish

Magourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Magourney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,148 people lived in 430 households in the Magourney electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carhoo Lower, Knockaneowen, Loughleigh, Monareagh, Nadrid

Placenames

Leemount 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.