Kilnacreevy

Area

126,309 m² (12.63 ha, 31.21 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,642 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Kilnacreevy

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• LE026-001001 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  This enclosure is situated in mixed woodland in a low-lying position on the S bank of a WNW-ESE section of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal, which cuts off a loop of the Woodford River to the N and which truncates this monument on the N side. The river and the canal connect Ballymagauran Lough to the E with Gardice Lough to the W. This is identified as Tuam Seanchaidh or Tomonaghan, an early centre of the O'Rourke's in south Leitrim which may have continued in use up to the 15th century (Dalton 1921-4, 26, 31-3). In 1386 Aine, the wife of Tiernan O’Rourke, Lord of Breifne, died at Tuaim Seanchaidh (AFM). As a medieval centre of the O’Rourkes’ and for morphological reasons the earthwork can be considered as a possible ringwork castle. However, a stone castle (LE026-001002-) may have been built c. 100m to the SE, at a location later occupied by a house (M’Parlan 1802, 93). This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 36m WNW-ESE; 25m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6.m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 0.8-1m) with trees that is separated by a berm (Wth 0.5-1m) from an outer rock-cut fosse (Wth 7m; int. D 1.3-2m; ext. D 0.5-1.6m) E-S-WSW, and by the canal elsewhere. There is an entrance (Wth 4.8m) and causeway (Wth 7m) at SW, but the bank and fosse do not continue W of this feature. Before the canal truncated it, the enclosure would include all the loop created by the river (dim. c. 120m N-S). 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: 7 July 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.