Blackgardens

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackgardens, from 77 m² to 135,165 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Sept 2021Conditional

  retention of existing garage as constructed

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 21178

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  (a) revise south eastern site boundary reducing site area from site area granted planning under P.08/16; (b) (i) retention of sun-room extension to south eastern elevation; (ii) retention of alterations to north western, north eastern, south western and south eastern elevations all to existing dwelling granted under P.08/16; (C) retention of garage as constructed including conversion of part building to ancillary living for the existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20194

• 21 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house with pumped connection to existing foul sewer and all other ancillary site works required

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19248

• 11 Feb 2019N/a

  construct a two storey type domestic dwelling, domestic garage, new site access, connect to public sewer system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1930

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 Blackgardens.

Recorded monuments

• LE015-163 Sweathouse
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope in Killarga village. Marked on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular stone-built chamber (int. diam. 1.9m) with a destroyed entrance at NE. It is built on a plinth (Wth 0.4-0.9m; H 0.4-1.2m) which is visible SE-NW, but there is no mound and the top of the chamber is destroyed. 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 Blackgardens.

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 Blackgardens, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Blackgardens · Na Garraithe Dubha

Area

500,511 m² (50.05 ha, 123.68 acres)

Civil parish

Killarga, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Belhavel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

297 people lived in 123 households in the Belhavel electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickoghil, Cunnion, Curry, Gortnacorkoge, Killarga, Mullaghmore

Placenames

Blackgardens 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.