Cannaboe

219 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cannaboe, from 4 m² to 75,954 m² (7.6 ha, 18.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 148 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Enterprise & Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Phase 2 Enterprise & Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  I, Bryan Cribbin, intend to apply for Permission for works to High Street, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, N41 EK85 as follows:(1) part demolition of Southwest rear return; (2) change of use from mixed office/ retail and residential use as ground floor pharmacy use (233sqm) with residential use overhead; (3) residential extension at first floor level to rear Southwestern elevation (9.1sqm); (4) 1 no. 1-bedroom apartment at first floor level (47.63 sqm) ;1 no. 1-bedroom apartment at second floor level (45.36 sqm); 1 no. 2-bedroom duplex apartment over first and second floor levels (69.70 sqm); (5) internal alterations to suit; (6) alterations to front elevation including new shop front; (7) external works include the provision of car parking and cycle spaces and service area to the rear and all necessary site works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560312

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  permission for the retention and completion, including alterations to the previously granted development (planning ref. no. P.24/60024). The development consists of revisions to the site layout plan, including reduced boundary setbacks, and revised first floor plan and elevations

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560037

• 15 Sept 2024Conditional

  The Conversion And Extension Of Single Storey Garage/Store And Office To 2 No. Self-Contained Accommodation Units, Connection To Existing Services And Alterations To Elevations.

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460186

• 20 Feb 2024Conditional

  will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, part single storey, part two storey, a single storey domestic garage, entrance onto the public road, new connection to services, landscaping works, and all associated works necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460024

• 27 Oct 2023Conditional

  To convert an existing commercial 1st floor into the following tourism type accommodation. (1). 5 no ensuite bedrooms. (2). Communal kitchen dining living space. (3). Allow for amendments to the external elevations as necessary to accommodate the revised floor plan layouts and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360119

• 5 Sept 2023Conditional

  resume and develop sites B & C to the rear of Ballinamore Enterprise Centre and construct 2 no. enterprise buildings, as follows:- (A.) 5 no. enterprise/workspace units with mezzanine offices, two storey office building comprising office hub and administration offices, with café and toilet facilities on site. (B). 3 no. enterprise /workspace units with mezzanine offices and single storey office on site. (C).Provision of carparking and service yards with 4 no. entrances on existing service road, bicycle parking, bin stores, landscaping, connection to existing services and site development works. This application is for a ten year Permission

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360090

• 13 Apr 2023Conditional

  Construct a 3G multi use all weather sports surface with surrounding 6m high fence. 2. To extend the existing playground area. 3. To construct a 1m high boundary fence to enclose the playground and sports area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2348

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  for permission to alter and extend existing dwelling by the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear and connect all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2114

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of a residential development consisting of 35 no. units (total) including 18 no. 2- bedroom apartments, 2 no. 2-bedroom and 15 no. 3-bedroom dwelling houses, in the form of 3 no. 2-storey terraced blocks, creation of new vehicular entrances, associated access roads and parking, site boundaries, connections to the public water main, foul & surface water drainage systems, footpaths, refuse storage areas, landscaping and all necessary and ancillary site works to complete the development in lieu of Permission for construction of a residential development consisting of 37 no. units (total) including 18 no. 2- bedroom apartments, 3 no. 2-bedroom and 16 no. 3-bedroom dwelling houses, in the form of 3 no. 2-storey terraced blocks, creation of new vehicular entrances, associated access roads and parking, site boundaries, connections to the public water main, foul & surface water drainage systems, footpaths, refuse storage areas, landscaping and all necessary and ancillary site works to complete the development

  Permission, 37 homes · Leitrim County Council, 19273

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  proposed development comprising alterations to the existing entrance (north) to the Rock Quarter and the construction of a single storey café with ancillary facilities and a public accessible WC within the existing open concourse. The new café includes the footprint of a previously permitted retail unit, adjacent to the main entrance under Plan file No. P.07/585. Permission is further sought for a new canopy over the existing concourse with glazed sliding doors and screens at the main entrance (north) to centre, glazed infill of existing openings to the street, relocation of existing signage and the provision of new signage. Permission is further sought for all necessary & ancillary site development works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19254

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  proposed development comprising of single- storey pharmacy with ancillary facilities within the partially complete ground floor previously permitted as "Retail Unit No. 06" under Plan File No. P.07/585, Public access is proposed from both the existing open concourse and from the existing doorway to the rear elevation (south). Service access is also from the second existing doorway to the rear elevation(south). Permission is further sought for the provision of new internal and external signage and all necessary & ancillary site development works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19255

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  development comprising of a three-storey office building over the existing basement car park, incorporating the partially constructed ground floor of a previously permitted development (Plan File No. P07/585) and provides 2,467m2 (gross) of office accommodation. The proposal also includes alterations to the existing ground floor footprint, provides alternative fire escape arrangements from the existing adjoining structure. Permission is further sought for all necessary & ancillary site development works to facilitate the development. connection to the existing basement car park is to be maintained.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19243

• 7 Nov 2019N/a

  construction of a residential development consisting of 37 no. units (total) including 18 no. 2- bedroom apartments, 3 no. 2-bedroom and 16 no. 3-bedroom dwelling houses, in the form of 3 no. 2-storey terraced blocks, creation of new vehicular entrances, associated access roads and parking, site boundaries, connections to the public water main, foul & surface water drainage systems, footpaths, refuse storage areas, landscaping and all necessary and ancillary site works to complete the development

  Permission, 19 homes · Leitrim County Council, 19229

• 18 Oct 2019Conditional

  (a) change of use of former retail / light hardware store to use as bar & lounge which is an extension of the original bar; (b) part basement incorporating stores and extension over incorporating bar & lounge; (c) external balcony structure with canopy and external escape stairs to rear; (d) alterations to floor plans and elevations; (e) external canopies to front and associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 19212

• 2 Aug 2018Conditional

  erect a domestic shed, car port and widen existing entrance

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18163

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 Cannaboe.

Recorded monuments

• LE025-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope. This is a grass-covered D-shaped or sub-rectangular platform (dims 20.5m E-W; 19m N-S; H 0.7m) defined by a round-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6-6.6m; D 0.2m) truncated slightly by a field bank at N, beyond which there is no evidence of the monument. 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

• LE025-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a col between drumlins to the E, W and S with slightly lower ground immediately to the N and S. It is described as a 'fort' bisected by a N-S road on the 1835 and 1944 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular area (diam. 35.4m E-W; c. 33m N-S) bisected by a N-S roadway and defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.2m) and external fosse (Wth at base 2.5m; D. 1m) to the E of the road, and by a slight fosse (Wth of top c. 6m; int. D 0.2-0.4m; ext. D 0.1-0.2m) to the W. It is planted with mixed woodland to the E of the road and is in pasture to the W. Archaeological testing (04E1061) outside the perimeter at NE in Cannaboe townland produced no related material (Henry 2007). 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 revised upload: 10 February 2017

• LE025-117 Standing stone
  Description

  Located on a N-facing slope within Ballinamore, it was on the street outside McAllister's Hotel until it was moved to a back-garden. It is marked only on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and described as a stone '5 feet 8 inches high' (H c. 1.8m) and with a girth or circumference of '10 feet 6 inches' (c. 3.2m ) (OSFM). 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

• Martin's, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with return and 1980s timber shopfront of disused shop. Pitched tiled roof with skylights and rendered and brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls, ruled-and-lined to first floor. Sill course to first floor. Timber sash windows with stucco surrounds. Replacement timber door with overlight and stucco surround.

• Hotel, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1870, now used as a bar with private accommodation. Replacement pubfront, projecting entrance porch to east end and extensions to rear. Pitched tiled roof with brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with quoins and string course. Alternate single and tripartite timber sash windows to upper floors, six over six to first floor and two over two to second, all with painted stucco surrounds. Replacement uPVC windows to rear. Glazed and timber panelled entrance door.

• Maryville, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, with projecting canted end bay to facade. Hipped slate roof with over-sailing eaves, ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Flat-roofed glazed timber porch with timber panelled door. Timber doors to side elevations with overlights. Timber casement windows. Site bounded by rendered wall. Wrought-iron gates to entrance.

• Saint Felim's College, railway station, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former station master's house abutted by five-bay single-storey former railway station, built c.1885, now used as a community school and private residence. M-profile slate roof to house and pitched slate roof to station with terracotta ridge cresting and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Red brick walls with vitrified and yellow brick dressings and segmental-headed openings. Replacement uPVC windows with yellow-brick hood mouldings and with stone sills. Windbreak with pitched tiled roof to entrance door of house. Timber glazed door with overlight. Single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear.

• Saint Felim's College, locomotive shed, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey former railway shed, built c.1885, now used by a school. Flat roof hidden by cornice. Random dressed coursed stone façade with segmental-headed brick-arched openings. Rendered modernised rear wall with modern window openings. Replacement uPVC windows to facade. Timber battened door.

• Saint Felim's College, store/warehouse, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey gable-fronted former goods shed, built c.1885, now used as part of a school. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Random coursed stone walls with brick barge courses to gables. Original doorways in long walls now blocked and have modern windows inserted. Segmental-headed window openingswith replacement uPVC windows in long walls. Present doorway and window inserted into southwest gable.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1712 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cannaboe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Cannaboe · Ceann na Bó

Area

521,940 m² (52.19 ha, 128.97 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinamore electoral division: 1,317 people in 516 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaleague, Aghatawny Lower, Aghatawny Upper, Fohera, Lahard, Stradermot, Tully

Placenames

Cannaboe 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.