Legnacreeve

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legnacreeve, from 43 m² to 198,035 m² (19.8 ha, 48.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Legnacreeve 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.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  permission to demolish an existing two-storey dwelling and associated single-storey outbuilding together with the construction of a replacement two-storey dwelling, alterations of existing private lane with new driveway, gates and piers, installation of new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460458

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, single-storey domestic garage, use of an existing shared entrance, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21308

• 19 Sept 2018Conditional

  permission to construct 1 No. storey & half type dwelling, new domestic entrance, mechanical effluent treatment system with associated percolation area and all site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18436

• 28 Feb 2018Refused

  Permission to develop and construct of 1 No. storey & half type dwelling, new domestic entrance, mechanical effluent treatment system with associated percolation area and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1878

• 1 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission to (1) retain as constructed changes to dwelling, including changes to external elevations & omission of rear projection, (2) omit detached domestic & general purpose garage from development, all as granted under planning application reference no. 11/72

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1795

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 Legnacreeve.

Recorded monuments

• MO014-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a rise towards the bottom of a S-facing slope and c. 60m N of a small canalised W-E stream. A subcircular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in improved pasture The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018

• MO014-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a drumlin. This is a raised and circular but overgrown area (diam. 27m WNW-ESE; 26m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 4.7m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.7m) and outer fosse (at N: Wth of top 3.6m; Wth of base 1.7m; ext. D 1.6m), with an outer field bank SW-WNW. The widened entrance (Wth of base 2.8m) and widened causeway (Wth of top 4.7m; H 1.3m) are at E. The rath (MO014-017----) is c. 100m to the SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 26 February 2018

• MO014-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a shelf on a S-facing slope. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m E-W) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in improved pasture. Rath (MO014-016----) is c. 100m to the NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 26 February 2018 Revised by: Claire Breen / Michael Moore

Architectural heritage

• Clontibret First Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Presbyterian church, built 1916, having two-bay nave, later gable-fronted porch recessed to west gable, and single-storey lean-to vestry addition to east. Pitched slate roof, having replacement metal rainwater goods, and with square-plan roof-lights to porch. Roughcast rendered walls, having smooth rendered quoins and plinth course. Round-headed window openings to nave, having smooth rendered surrounds and tooled stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows with stained glass, having two mid-twentieth-century stained-glass windows to south elevation. Round-headed window opening to east and west long walls of nave having nineteenth-century stained glass. Round-headed window opening over porch door having replacement uPVC window. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows to vestry, having tooled stone sills. Round-headed replacement timber door to porch, with moulded surround. Square-headed door opening to north elevation of rear extension having concrete steps and recent timber door. Interior has smooth rendered walls to interior, having marble memorial wall plaques and decorative carved timber hymn-board to east wall, timber battened panelled ceiling with exposed scissors truss roof supports, nineteenth-century timber pews, and similarly-dated pulpit to east end having bow-fronted decorative cast-iron balustrade with timber rail. Decorative round-headed double-leaf glazed timber door into nave from porch, with latticed over-light. Square-headed timber panelled door leading from pulpit to vestry. Church set within graveyard at crossroads in rural setting, bounded by recent metal gates and flanking roughcast-rendered wall to west, timber fencing to north and mature tree and hedge boundary to east and south.

• Clontibret First Presbyterian Church, 1895–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of freestanding funerary monuments, erected 1897 and appended with additional inscription 1931, in graveyard of Clontibret First Presbyterian Church at Legnacreeve. Square-plan polished limestone pillar dedicated to members of Wilson family to north of west entrance to church. Square-plan plinth and base surmounted by polished marble urn. Surrounded by low limestone kerb, with three posts to each side, four to east. Painted decorative cast-iron railings. Free-standing carved limestone and marble monument to south perimeter of graveyard west of church, dedicated to memory of Reverend Andrew Molyneaux. Square-plan plinth and base with marble cladding, tapered shaft, moulded entablature, surmounted by draped marble urn. Low chamfered limestone plain plinth kerbs extending north.

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 Legnacreeve, about 1 in 20 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 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 Legnacreeve.

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 Legnacreeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Legnacreeve · Log na Craoibhe

Area

1,159,547 m² (115.95 ha, 286.53 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Rackwallace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

974 people lived in 315 households in the Rackwallace electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annahuby, Ballycronog, Corrinshigo, Creeve, Dromore, Mullagarry, Rackwallace

Placenames

Legnacreeve 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.