Woodford Demesne

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodford Demesne, from 505 m² to 160,697 m² (16.07 ha, 39.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Woodford Demesne 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.

• 12 Nov 2025Refused

  application for extension of duration of 3 years on original planning permission P.21/153

  Extension of duration · Leitrim County Council, 2522

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  proposed construction of a building to be used for an office for administrative purposes to service existing agricultural buildings and farmlands and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 22120

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  (a) erection of a lean -to type roof structure to the side of an existing agricultural shed (previously granted planning permission under planning ref P.10/134), which will link same to a proposed general purpose agricultural storage shed (previously granted full planning permission under planning ref P.13/6 & subsequent grant of Extension of Duration, planning ref P.18/20); (b) erection of a general purpose agricultural storage shed, which will adjoin a proposed feed storage shed & a general purpose agricultural storage shed (which were both previously granted planning permission under planning ref P.13/6 and subsequent Extension of Duration, planning ref P.18/20), and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2290

• 9 May 2022N/a

  (a) erection of a lean -to type roof structure to the side of an existing agricultural shed(previously granted planning permission under planning ref P.10/134), which will link same to a proposed general purpose agricultural storage shed (previously granted full planning permission under planning ref P.13/6 & subsequent grant of Extension of Duration, planning ref P.18/20); (b) erection of a general purpose agricultural storage shed, which will adjoin a proposed feed storage shed & a general purpose agricultural storage shed (which were both previously granted planning permission under planning ref P.13/6 and subsequent Extension of Duration, planning ref P.18/20), and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2275

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a Bungalow Type Dwelling house with detached garage, perimeter fence, suitable on site sewerage system with polishing filter . Access to the proposed dwelling to be provided for via existing access road and existing entrance both of which were upgraded under Planning Reference Number P10-134 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21153

• 7 Feb 2018Unconditional

  extend duration of Planning Permission P. 13-6 for a period of 5 years

  Extension of duration · Leitrim County Council, 1820

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 Woodford Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• LE026-001001 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  This enclosure is situated in mixed woodland in a low-lying position on the S bank of a WNW-ESE section of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal, which cuts off a loop of the Woodford River to the N and which truncates this monument on the N side. The river and the canal connect Ballymagauran Lough to the E with Gardice Lough to the W. This is identified as Tuam Seanchaidh or Tomonaghan, an early centre of the O'Rourke's in south Leitrim which may have continued in use up to the 15th century (Dalton 1921-4, 26, 31-3). In 1386 Aine, the wife of Tiernan O’Rourke, Lord of Breifne, died at Tuaim Seanchaidh (AFM). As a medieval centre of the O’Rourkes’ and for morphological reasons the earthwork can be considered as a possible ringwork castle. However, a stone castle (LE026-001002-) may have been built c. 100m to the SE, at a location later occupied by a house (M’Parlan 1802, 93). This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 36m WNW-ESE; 25m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6.m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 0.8-1m) with trees that is separated by a berm (Wth 0.5-1m) from an outer rock-cut fosse (Wth 7m; int. D 1.3-2m; ext. D 0.5-1.6m) E-S-WSW, and by the canal elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth 4.8m) and causeway (Wth 7m) at SW, but the bank and fosse do not continue W of this feature. Before the canal truncated it, the enclosure would include all the loop created by the river (dim. c. 120m N-S). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 7 July 2017

• LE026-001002 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Situated in a relatively high area on the S bank of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal, which cuts off a loop of the Woodford River to the N and connects Ballymagauran Lough to the E with Gardice Lough to the W. The house is reputedly on the site of an O'Rourke castle (McParlan 1802, 93), which is depicted as a tower at Tumanahan (22) on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of Carrigallen barony and was owned by Richard Nugent, the Earl of Westmeath in 1641. There is no trace of this castle, but for the Down Survey see this web-page accessed on 24/02/2017: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Carrigallin&c=Leitrim The earl had received the original grant of 1200 acres in the 1620s (Mac an Ghallóglaigh 1971, 251), but the estate had become the property of the Ormsby-Gore family in the 19th century and the house was in ruins by 1837 (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 279). The house was not replaced. The Gore family was in Ireland since the late sixteenth century. Sir Arthur Gore (c. 1640-1697) was created first Baron of Newtown, Co. Mayo, in 1662, although he may have been settled in Leitrim by then. His fourth son, George, was Attorney General for Ireland and married Bridget, a daughter of John Shanky of Tenalick (LF023-123001-). His third son William was an MP for Leitrim and died in 1730. For George Gore see this web-page accessed on 17/05/2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gore_(judge) William’s son, William, also an MP for Leitrim (1730-60) and 1768-9, is described as ‘of Woodford’ but seems to have lost the Woodford demesne as it was not in his legacy to his nephew, William, MP for the county 1769-76. This William’s son, also called William but never an MP. married Mary Jane Ormsby, an heiress, in 1815. (Johnston-Liik 2002, vol. 4, 288-90) The ruined house is a two storey building (int. dims 11.5m E-W; 6.2m N-S) with a large fireplace (Wth 2.7m; D 1.24m; H 1.3m) and two ovens in the W gable at the ground floor, but the E end does not survive, apart from wall foundations. There are three large window openings and a doorway in the N wall and a single large window in the S wall at the ground floor, the ceiling of which was supported on recessed ledges in the N and S walls. There is a similar arrangement of windows on the first floor but there is no surviving fireplace or evidence of a stairs. The house is in the centre of the S wall of a court or yard (dims 31m NNE-SSW; 28m WNW-ESE) but only the W end of the S wall, the W wall (T 0.65m) with nine lights or loops (H 0.9m; Wth 0.2m) at the ground level, some with brick-lined rear-arches (H 1m; Wth 0.73m), and the N wall with no openings at ground level survive. An L-shaped two storey building occupied the W and N parts of the court, incorporating the court walls with rectangular windows at the first floor, nine in the W wall and six on the N wall. However, a rebate for the first floor is not present and there is no evidence of other walls for this structure. The building’s S end, abutting the W gable of the house, had an inserted brick-lined groin-vaulted chamber (int. dims 6.8m x 6.8m), but the vault is now almost entirely removed. The E side of the court is poorly defined. The foundations of a house (int. dim 7.4m E-W; 6m N-S) are immediately E of the surviving house, and the W wall of a gateway with a passage (Wth 3.05m E-W; L 5.7m plus N-S; H 4m) is c. 15m further E and was probably at the SE angle of the court. The entrance passage has no vault but there is a rebate for the gate leaves and there are two surviving embrasures on the W wall. There are further, less well-defined features to the E and S, and the surviving walls have tie-stones and piers at the angles, so that the complex was capable of infinite expansion. All the surviving structures appear to be eighteenth century in date, and the house and outhouses are part of a wider designed landscape consisting of terraces rising above the house to the S, and two walled gardens. There is a rectangular walled enclosure (dims c. 32m WNW-ESE; c. 26m NNE-SSW), perhaps an orchard, with a long two-storey structure in the NW angle is c. 35m NW of the house. Archaeological testing (07E0651) c. 160m to the SE of the house produced no related material (Byrne 2010). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 7 July 2017

• LE026-001004 Bridge
  Description

  This bridge spanned the county boundary between Leitrim and Cavan.  A bridge is depicted on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of Carrigallen barony connecting Tumanahan (22) (Woodford) with Co. Cavan, close to the castle (LE026-001002-). The precise location of the bridge is not known, but the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell canal will have removed all evidence of a bridge close to the house. The canal has cut off a loop of the river extending N and the bridge may have been here.  Cross-reference with CV013-075----. See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at left) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (NLI,  MS 717).  Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July, 2017

• LE026-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 31.5m E-W; 32.3m N-S; int. diam. 30m E-W; 29.5m N-S) defined by a grass and scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 5-6.5m; int. H 0.4m; max. ext. H 1.7m) N-E-S, which is reduced to a scarp (at W: H 1.2m) elsewhere, and an external fosse (Wth of top 6.2-7m; Wth of base 2.5-3m; D 0.4-0.5m) NW-S. There is a widened entrance (Wth 9m) at S, and a local tradition of a souterrain c. 150m outside the monument at S. 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

• LE026-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a severe W-facing slope down to the E shore of a narrow N-S inlet at the SE angle of Garadice Lough, with the lake edge c. 20m distant. This is a D-shaped, grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 41.2m N-S; int. dims 35m E-W; 34m N-S) planted with mature deciduous trees, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.2m at N to 1.2-1.3m E-SSW; ext. H 1.1m generally to 1.6m at N) and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.7-7m; Wth of base 2-2.3m; D 0.4m at N to 1.1m at S) that survive NNW-E-SSW. The straight side at W (L 36m) is formed by a scarp (H 0.6m) where the monument has been truncated, and the W end of the perimeter at S is also a straight scarp (L 17m). The only entrance (Wth 2.5m) at W, is also secondary. 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: 28 February 2017

Architectural heritage

• Woodford, walled garden, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Square-plan walled garden, built c.1750, as part of Woodford estate. Random coursed limestone walls with lime mortar.

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 Woodford Demesne, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Woodford Demesne.

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 Woodford Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Woodford Demesne · Tuaim Sheancháin

Area

1,466,240 m² (146.62 ha, 362.32 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Newtowngore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

299 people lived in 118 households in the Newtowngore electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagauran (Co. Cavan), Carrickateane, Derryniggin, Kilnacreevy, Newtowngore, Sruhagh (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Woodford Demesne 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.