Fenagh
Fenagh is a townland in the civil parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Fíonach.
Parcel 589583
- Area
- 4,144 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Fenagh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 161 ha
- 398 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 11,445 m² (1.14 ha, 2.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fenagh, from 164 m² to 284,874 m² (28.49 ha, 70.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Fenagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Nov 2025Refused
construction of a new sheep handling facility, slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560269
24 Aug 2023Conditional
development in the townland of Fenagh, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. The Development consists of an existing Temporary Meteorological Mast that will operate for a further 5 years. The Meteorological Mast will retain its finished height not exceeding 80m above existing ground level consisting of a lattice tubular frame, guy wires and ancillary equipment.
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2360082
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fenagh.
Recorded monuments
- LE007-032 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as an embanked enclosure and described as a ‘Fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and located towards the top of a steep S-facing slope. This is a circular area (int. diam. 21.6m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth at least 1.4m; H 0.8m) with external facing-stones intermittently visible. The area is used as a haggard. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE007-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise towards the top of a S-facing slope on the N side of Glencar valley with a stream immediately to the E. Grass-covered oval area (int. dims 27.3m E-W; 22.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NE: Wth 5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2.1m), with a slight external fosse (Wth 3m) at NE. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fenagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Fenagh, 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 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 Fenagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Fenagh · Fíonach
- Area
- 1,609,719 m² (160.97 ha, 397.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killasnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Glenade, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 156 people lived in 62 households in the Glenade electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barracashlaun, Carrickeeny, Carrickgooan, Drumdillure, Glebe, Shancurragh Barr Of
- Placenames
- Fenagh 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.