Tawnyhoosy

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tawnyhoosy, from 380 m² to 136,104 m² (13.61 ha, 33.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Tawnyhoosy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Tawnyhoosy 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 the townland of Tawnyhoosy.

Recorded monuments

• LE015-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a small N-S ridge on the floor of the Bonet River valley with the headwaters of a small NE-SW stream c. 20m to the W. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 18.4m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H up to 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m at SW to 1.3m at NE) with an external fosse (Wth 1.5-4m) visible as a band of rush growth (Wth 1.5-4m). There is an entrance ramp (Wth 2.4m) at NE. Rath (LE011-089----) is c. 70m to the WNW. 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

• LE015-047001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a spur of high ground jutting W from a drumlin. This is an overgrown circular area (dims 36m E-W; 33.3m N-S; int. diam. 33.5m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (at E: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) NW-E-SE which is reduced to a scarp (at S: H 0.8m) elsewhere, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 3.7-5m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.3-0.6m) N-E-SW. There is stone-revetting on the inside of the bank at N and the stone-lined entrance (Wth 1.4m) at NE has been misinterpreted as a megalithic structure on the OS 6-inch map of 1910 and by Richardson and Lowry-Corry (1940, 176-7). The bank is surmounted by a field wall SW-N-SE. 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 Tawnyhoosy.

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 Tawnyhoosy, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tawnyhoosy · Tamhnaigh Chuasaigh

Area

422,011 m² (42.2 ha, 104.28 acres)

Civil parish

Killarga, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Cloonlogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

310 people lived in 128 households in the Cloonlogher electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortermone, Gortnacorkoge, Lisgorman, Sleveen, Tullycreevy

Placenames

Tawnyhoosy 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.