Leighmoney Beg

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leighmoney Beg, from 1,137 m² to 560,283 m² (56.03 ha, 138.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Leighmoney 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.

• 16 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for alterations and construction of extensions to rear, sides and front at lower ground and upper ground floor levels, elevational alterations, demolition of existing retaining walls, construction of new retaining walls, decommissioning of existing effluent treatment system and installation of new on-site treatment works and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1301

• 4 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for construction of new domestic dwelling house, detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0222

• 14 May 2018Conditional

  Retention of the existing dwelling as constructed (change of plan to that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 2529/74), and all ancillary works. Permission for alterations to the wastewater arrangements serving the existing dwelling, namely; the decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5218

• 19 Jun 2014Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extensions to existing dwelling and relocation of the permitted treatment plant and percolation area

  Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5309

• 28 Jan 2013Refused

  Construction of dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4127

• 22 May 2009Conditional

  Dwelling & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5668

• 22 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5762

• 22 Mar 2006Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5737

• 21 Dec 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9603

• 5 Aug 2005Conditional

  Removal of existing septic tank and installation of treatment plant to serve existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5613

• 17 Jun 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2996

• 17 Apr 2003New application

  Construction of split level dwelling and biocycle unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1826

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bandon Valley Below Inishannon 001515

Recorded monuments

• CO111-025 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In tillage, on S-facing slope. No visible surface trace; modern bungalow built close to site of castle. According to Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 251) 'remains of an extensive fortress occupied by the Spainards in 1601, and by the royalists in 1641'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO111-026001 Graveyard
  Description

  Entered from road at NE corner; rectangular graveyard (c. 70m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.4m) with shallow external fosse. Heavily overgrown and apparently no longer in use; accessible headstones date from early 19th century, also visible some low uninscribed gravemarkers. Burial enclosure, of 19th century date, in SW corner. In centre are ruins of parish church of Leighmoney (CO111-026002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO111-026002 Church
  Description

  In centre of graveyard (CO111-026001-), fragmentary remains of rectangular church (int.: 13.95m SE-NW; 5.2m NE-SW). Walls much broken down and overgrown; gaps in SW wall indicate position of window and door opes. Wide shallow niche (Wth 2.75m; D 0.44m) at base of much collapsed SE wall possibly base of central window ope. Parish church of Leighmoney, in ruins by 1615 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 200). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Leighmoney 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 Leighmoney Beg, about 1 in 10 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 Leighmoney 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 Leighmoney Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Leighmoney Beg · Liafuine Beag

Area

574,105 m² (57.41 ha, 141.86 acres)

Civil parish

Leighmoney, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Leighmoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

814 people lived in 259 households in the Leighmoney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lahern, Leighmoney More, Lissard, Ship-Pool

Placenames

Leighmoney 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.