Esker

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Esker, from 468 m² to 63,855 m² (6.39 ha, 15.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Esker 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.

• 13 Oct 2026N/a

  1. Construction of a pedestrian bridge and associated supporting structures to allow for separate pedestrian crossing of Cloone River adjacent to the L1496 road. 2. Installation of a culvert to allow pedestrian access between L1496 road and the proposed pedestrian bridge. 3. The construction of a gravel walkway along the south bank of the Cloone River to connect the proposed pedestrian bridge on the L1496 road to the junction of the R201 and L1566 roads. 4. A pedestrian crossing of the R201 at the junction of L1566. 5. A pedestrian bridge to allow for crossing of the Esker river southwest of the junction of the R201 and L1566 roads. 6. Development of a walking trail along the R201, L16041 roads and adjacent laneway to St Creigharee’s Well (SMR Ref. LE033-023) and all associated surfacing and signage.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660239

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 Esker.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Esker.

Architectural heritage

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

  Detached four-bay two-storey with attic house, built c.1860, with an early-twentieth century shopfront projecting from the ground floor. Pitched slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with stucco quoins. Two-over-two timber sash windows to first and attic floors. Recessed shop entrance with replacement timber double doors with overlights flanked by display windows on rendered stall risers with console brackets, rendered pilasters and fascia with applied lettering. Farm outbuildings to rear of site.

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 Esker, about 1 in 20 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Esker · An Eiscir

Area

246,752 m² (24.68 ha, 60.97 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Cloone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 147 households in the Cloone electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloone, Drumharkan Glebe, Drumlaggagh, Racullen

Placenames

Esker 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.