Loughscur

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughscur, from 162 m² to 71,021 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Loughscur 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 Loughscur 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 Loughscur.

Recorded monuments

• LE024-042 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in pasture in a broad E-W valley with the W end of Lough Scur c. 0.25km to the ENE. This is a rectangular structure (dims 7m E-W; c. 2.7m N-S) of which only the S and part of the W sides survive. It is composed of contiguous orthostats (max. dims 1.2m x 0.2m; H 0.5m) with some displaced stones (max. dims 1.5m x 1m) present. The stones are situated on a grass-covered mound (basal dims 17m E-W; 12.5m N-S; H 0.5m at E to 1m at N). 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

• LE024-044 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Located in pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope, c. 250m S of Lough Scur. Limestone slabs form a S-facing chamber (dims c. 4.6m x c. 3.75m; H 1.65m) consisting of two portal-stones, two collapsed sidestones, a collapsed backstone and a large roofstone, now broken into four pieces. Two slabs 6m to the N may be the remains of a second chamber. The tomb is now surrounded by a concrete and stone path and it is accessible from a small carpark at a roadside c. 40m to the SW. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 194; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 84-5) See the attached view from SW _1 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

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone canal bridge, built c.1859, with rock-faced walls and voussoirs. This bridge spans the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal. The canal was reopened in 1994.

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (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 Loughscur.

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

Name

Loughscur · Loch an Scoir

Area

321,033 m² (32.1 ha, 79.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Keshcarrigan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

618 people lived in 226 households in the Keshcarrigan electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gowly, Letterfine, Roscarban, Sheebeg

Placenames

Loughscur 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.