Leitrim

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim, from 32 m² to 86,213 m² (8.62 ha, 21.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 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.

• 5 Apr 2023Conditional

  outline planning permission for the erection of a new dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and raised/mounded soil polishing filter, access from public road to site via existing laneway, landscaping and all other associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2398

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  permission to i) construct a single storey dwelling, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates and piers, ii) retain the existing school building to provide ancillary accommodation, together with all associated works. Significant further information received in relation to revised development description to include 1) to construct a single storey dwelling, new waste water treatment system , new entrance with grates and piers 2) to retain and repurpose the existing schoolhouse as a domestic garage/store/ancillary outbuilding, and iii) for all associated site works to include 1) revised site layout 2) revised floor plans 3) revised elevations

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22228

• 5 Nov 2021Refused

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling, new wastewater treatment system, new entrance with gates and piers together with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21616

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  permission for works consisting of the retention of an as constructed attic conversion to an existing bungalow type dwelling and all other associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21389

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  permission to develop a greenway from Monaghan Town’s Coolshannagh roundabout (N2 junction with N12) to Ardgonnell Bridge, located on the border with Northern Ireland near the N12. The proposed greenway measures 7.3 kms in length and affects mainly rural land in both public and private ownership. It follows the route of the Ulster Canal as it proceeds alongside the N12 national primary road to Middletown, County Armagh. The proposed stretch of Greenway within Monaghan Town connects to the existing greenway near Coolshannagh roundabout and passes along the rear of Monaghan Institute on the N12 Armagh Road.The proposed greenway from Monaghan Town to the border passes through the following Townlands: An Tulaigh Thirim (Tullyhirm); Cnoc an Chonnaidh (Knockaconny); Droim Ruatach Drumrutagh); Droim Achaidh Chruitin (Drumacruttan); An Chorr Bheag (Corbeg); Cruail (Crowey); Sceith na gCeann (Skinnagin); Táite an Teampaill (Templetate); Tulaigh Loiscthe (Tullylish); Táite Mhuileann an Ūcaire (Tuckmilltate); Coill Uí Néill (Killyneill); Coillidh Liaf (Killeef) and Tamlacht (Tamlat). The proposed Greenway will consist of the following 5m corridor incorporating a pathway up to 3m wide with a drainage/buffer verge up to 1m on each side. The pathway will consist of an unbound, granular surface course of gravel and dust, with asphalt in certain locations such as road crossing points, stock proof timber fencing (1.2m tall) at each side of the greenway where appropriate, as well as chicane railings at road crossing points, four pedestrian timber footbridges for connectivity across the canal and watercourses, underpass guardrails at the following bridges: Drumratagh Bridge; Crowey Bridge; Glebe Bridge and Pipers Bridge, information boards at the termination point in Monaghan Town, together with way-marking and advanced warning signage for users along the route where appropriate, and all necessary associated site works such as route clearance, tree felling where unavoidable, drainage improvements, road junction improvements for pedestrians (dropped kerbs, tactile paving), site levelling/re-grading works and cut and fill earthworks.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 218005

• 13 Mar 2019N/a

  Permission to retain 1. Existing dwelling house as built. 2. Retain and extend existing garage. 3. Exit on to public road by way of existing entrance.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19116

• 20 Jun 2018N/a

  Permission to extend existing detached garage and exit onto public road

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18280

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission to construct a storey & a half type dwelling, construct detached domestic garage, form new site entrance, install proprietary waste-water treatment system, together with associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17145

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.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Leitrim.

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1890, now in use as private residence, having single-bay return to rear of rear return, lean-to porch to front re-entrant angle, and two-bay two-storey and one-bay single-storey additions to rear re-entrant angle. Pitched slate roof, gabled to east, west and south, and lean-to corrugated-iron to smaller addition. Yellow brick chimneystacks to north and south gable ends, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered and painted walls, with smooth rendered plinth course. Canted bay window to east gable. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed window and door openings to porch having replacement fittings. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east of house, having single-storey lean-to roofed projections to north and west elevations, pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, harl-rendered walls, square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to east elevation, square-headed door openings having single-leaf timber battened doors to first and ground floors to south elevation, double-leaf timber battened door and half-glazed timber panelled door to ground floor east elevation. First floor door approached by timber stairs. Site demarcated by boundary wall with rendered gate piers to east of house at junction with main road, located to north of Saint Patrick's Catholic Church.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding barn-style Roman Catholic church, dated 1827, having masonry belfry to west elevation erected 1921-2 after designs by William Scott. Projecting single-bay two-storey sacristy to side (north) elevation, constructed at same time as church. Four-bay nave. Pitched slate roof, gabled to east and west, having cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to sacristy having recent red brick chimneystack. Three-stage engaged limestone belfry with pointed cap surmounted by limestone cross and having round-arch opening with rock-faced voussoirs and bronze bell (founder's mark not visible). Stepped engaged piers with pointed caps flanking belfry, having recessed crosses to apex. Roughcast rendered walls to nave and sacristy. Stone wall plaque to south. Pointed-arch window openings with concrete tracery windows to south and north elevations, tripartite arrangement of lancet windows to east elevation having figurative stained glass and coursed snecked limestone rubble surround with block-and-start edging and stone voussoirs, and lancet windows flanking belfry to west elevation. Tooled limestone quoins and voussoirs to windows of east and west elevations. Pointed-arch door opening with ashlar limestone surround to west elevation, having square-headed double-leaf timber battened door surmounted by stained-glass overlight. Church set back from road surrounded by graveyard, bounded by hedging on to west, north and east, with roughcast curved stone wall to south with limestone coping and exposed limestone piers. Monument to road front commemorating Fenians.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, monument, 1903–1913 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding rectangular-plan limestone monument to James Rice, erected c.1908. Romanesque aedicule with round-headed blind arches and foliated capitals on plinth and base to north and south sides, surmounted by high cross with interlace detailing. Carved with moulded spears, axes and harp to west corner of south elevation, Irish wolfhound to centre, and round tower, high cross and ruined church to east corner. Inscription in Gaelic script to blind arcade of south elevation dedicating monument to James Rice, with 'RICE' in high relief to plinth flanked by crests of four provinces. Inscribed dedication on blind arcade of north elevation in memory of members of Rice family. Sculptor's name inscribed on plinth of south elevation, 'O NEILL & Co. SCULPTORS / BELFAST'. Kerb with three posts having pointed caps and interlace detailing to east and west sides. Located to south side of Saint Patrick's Church, in graveyard.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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.

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

Name

Leitrim · Liatroim

Area

1,165,113 m² (116.51 ha, 287.91 acres)

Civil parish

Tehallan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Tehallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tehallan electoral division: 905 people in 307 households; 84% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumagelvin, Killeef, Killyneill, Knockacunnier, Shelvins, Templetate, Terrycaffe, Tuckmilltate, Tullygony

Placenames

Leitrim 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.