Legan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legan, from 146 m² to 100,767 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Legan 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.

• 3 Jul 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: construct barn and shed

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25264

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  construction of a new front boundary wall and driveway, alterations to the existing house to include the application of external insulation, rear and side extensions to the existing house, the upgrading of an existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works in addition the extension of a side porch and alterations to all elevations

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460204

• 27 Nov 2023N/a

  Section 5 Declaration; mobile field shelter for horses over winter

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23627

• 16 Nov 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new front boundary wall and driveway, alterations to the existing house to include the application of external insulation, rear and side extensions to the existing house, the upgrading of an existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360475

• 10 May 2023Refused

  retention planning for the demolition of an existing front boundary wall and shed along with the laying of a foundation for a new shed and will consist of the construction of two sheds and a barn along with a rear and side extension to an existing house and upgrading of an existing wastewater treatment system for same and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23263

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20791

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Oldhead Wood SAC 000532
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Oldhead Wood 000532

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legan.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legan.

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 Legan, 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 Legan.

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

Name

Legan · An Liagán

Area

462,668 m² (46.27 ha, 114.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Louisburgh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,117 people lived in 446 households in the Louisburgh electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balloor, Derrylahan, Oldhead

Placenames

Legan 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.