Effrinagh

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Effrinagh, from 718 m² to 88,335 m² (8.83 ha, 21.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Effrinagh 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.

• 10 Jun 2026Conditional

  (a) retention permission for attic conversion at first-floor level of the existing dwelling, c/w internal modifications to the ground floor, with revised windows sizes, (b) retention of material change to the elevations from stone cladding to painted sand/cement render, and (c) retention of max 1.10m high walls in garden areas.

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660151

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  construct a new dormer type domestic dwelling, domestic garage, new site entrance, septic tank with effluent treatment and disposal system together with all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19107

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  relocating the entrance of existing dwelling, closing up and reinstating old entrance of dwelling with timber post and rail fencing

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1947

• 26 Oct 2018N/a

  relocation of the entrance of existing dwelling, closing up and reinstating old entrance of dwelling with timber post and rail fencing.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18224

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 Effrinagh.

Recorded monuments

• LE028-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the N-facing slope of a small drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular platform (dims 44m E-W; 40m N-S; H 0.65m) with a hedge at the perimeter defined by a slight fosse (Wth 2.15m; D 0.1m). The original entrance is not identified. A depression (L 10m; Wth 2m; D 0.15m) in the N interior may be a collapsed souterrain. 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 Effrinagh.

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 Effrinagh, 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 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 Effrinagh.

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

Name

Effrinagh · Ifreannach

Area

1,334,572 m² (133.46 ha, 329.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumsna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

740 people lived in 284 households in the Drumsna electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbradican, Ardlougher, Corlisheen, Corlona, Cornagillagh, Finisklin, Lisdromarea North

Placenames

Effrinagh 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.