Leons Beg

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leons Beg, from 110 m² to 64,805 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Leons 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission to construct single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site boundaries and new site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560510

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  permission to demolish existing single storey conservatory and construct single storey extension to side of existing single storey detached dwelling, internal alterations, and all associated site works at No. 2 The Wood, Leons Beg, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460292

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house and all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1898

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission for proposed single storey extension to existing commercial storage unit along with elevational changes and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17566

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 Leons Beg.

Recorded monuments

• MO034-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low hill. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1773). It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m NW-SE; int. diam. 33.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6.5m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) supporting a hedge SE-NW, and with slight traces of an outer fosse (D 0.1-0.3m) all around. There are entrance gaps at NW, NE, and SE, but none appear to be original. 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: 17 June 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leons 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

At the centre of the townland of Leons Beg, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Leons Beg · Leamhain Bheag

Area

318,296 m² (31.83 ha, 78.65 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Lough Fea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

686 people lived in 234 households in the Lough Fea electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloughan, Carrickashedoge, Halftate, Leonsgarve or Leons (McKenna), Mokeeran

Placenames

Leons 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.