Fearnaght

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fearnaght, from 49 m² to 149,715 m² (14.97 ha, 37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Fearnaght 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.

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  (A) Retention Permission For Extension To The Rear Of Existing Single Storey Dwelling House. (B) Retention Permission For Existing Storage Shed. (C) Permission For Alterations To Existing Entrance, Including Reduction In Entrance Width, Associated Boundary Works And All Ancillary Site Works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660138

• 19 May 2026Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, access roadway, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all ancillary site works and services at the above address.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660127

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560246

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  development consisting of a single storey ground floor extension to an existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20231

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  (a) as constructed dwelling house, garage & home gym, site boundaries and all associated site works that are at variance to grants of planning permission P.03/411 & P.09/20 and (b) retention planning permission for fuel shed & domestic glass house with associated ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1912

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  as constructed dwelling house, site boundaries, access onto the public road and all associated site works that are at variance to grant of planning permission P.03/1072 with associated ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1913

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Boderg And Lough Bofin 001642

Recorded monuments

• LE035-017 Standing stone
  Description

  Located on a shelf in a landscape sloping down gently to the W, with an old quarry to the N and lower ground to the W. A stone described as a ‘Pillar Stone’ in gothic lettering is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The field has been reclaimed and no standing stone is visible. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 January 2020

• LE035-018 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated in a fold on a W-facing slope. An oval stone (dims c. 0.4m x c. 0.2m) with a small basin on one side is close to the holy well (LE035-018001-). In the folk tradition it was said to have the imprint of two knees and to have a cure for warts (IFC, Schools’ Collection, vol. 0214, 156-7). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 January 2020

• LE035-018001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in a fold on a W-facing slope. The bullaun stone (LE035-018----) is close to a well which is an opening (diam. 1.2m; D 0.5m) defined by boulders (dims. c. 0.5m). No name is attributed to it, but in the folk tradition it was regarded as a holy well, which moved to this location after clothes had been washed in it at another unknown place. (IFC, Schools’ Collection, vol. 0214, 156-7). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fearnaght.

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 Fearnaght, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1600 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fearnaght · Fiodh Fharnochta

Area

1,558,569 m² (155.86 ha, 385.13 acres)

Civil parish

Annaduff, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Drumod, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,010 people lived in 376 households in the Drumod electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrywillow, Drumlom, Faulties, Finnalaghta, Furnace or Bleankillew, Gortinee, Moher, Moherrevan

Placenames

Fearnaght 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.