Foxborough

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxborough, from 825 m² to 104,476 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Foxborough 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  (a) detached domestic storage shed to rear of existing dwelling, (b) waste water treatment system and percolation area servicing existing dwelling and associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2560035

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 Foxborough.

Recorded monuments

• LE031-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the W-facing slope of a small drumlin. This is a grass and scrub-covered subcircular platform (int. dims 38m NNW-SSE; 32m NE-SW; H 1.3-1.5m) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.55m) largely reduced to a scarp which is the inner edge of a flat-bottomed fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 2.9m; ext. D 1.6m). This is surrounded by a flat-topped earthen bank (at NE: Wth of base 6.4m; Wth of top 3m; ext. H 1.1m). This middle bank is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (at NE: Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 1m) from a third outer bank (at NE: Wth of base 3m; ext. H 1.1m) and an external fosse (at NE: Wth of base 4m; ext. D 0.2m). The maximum external dimension is c. 75m. There is an entrance through the middle bank (Wth of base 2.9m) and the outer bank (Wth of base 2.8m), the latter of which is now blocked, at E. 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 revised upload: 16 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foxborough.

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.

• Foxborough, Drumsna5 sales

Name

Foxborough · Foxborough

Area

250,213 m² (25.02 ha, 61.83 acres)

Civil parish

Annaduff, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumsna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Crickeen, Drumnacot, Fargrim, Gortconnellan, Lavagh, Mountcampbell, Mullaun

Placenames

Foxborough 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.