Cashel

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashel, from 1,302 m² to 129,662 m² (12.97 ha, 32.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Cashel 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 Aug 2024Conditional

  construct an agricultural lane and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460163

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  (a) upgrade existing hard core play area and erect 2.4 m high fence around the hard core play area; (b) upgrade the existing waste water treatment facility to an onsite waste water treatment facility which complies with current EPA COP, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19100

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  (a) retain existing agricultural sheds and yards and (b) construct a dry bedded agricultural shed, yard and water harvesting facility

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1837

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 Cashel.

Recorded monuments

• LE015-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the N edge of a broad plateau in a low-lying landscape overlooking an E-W stream c. 100m to the N. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 30.6m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.4m at W to 0.8m at E) with old quarry holes on the perimeter at NW and S. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. 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

• LE015-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a plateau with rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 21m NNE-SSW) defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 3-4.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) NW-E-SW. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. A quarry and limekiln occupy most of the W and S parts of the interior, and a WNW-ESE field wall overlies it towards the perimeter at N. 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

• LE015-096001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 18.7m NE-SW) with dense growth of blackthorn in the SE half. It is defined by the foundations of a stone wall with visible facing-stones (Wth of wall 3-3.5m; max. H 0.6m), which is extensively robbed S-W. There is no identifiable original entrance but there is a possible souterrain (LE015-096002-) in the interior. A small annexe or house site (int. L 4.5m; int. Wth 1.8m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 0.9-1.45m) with an entrance gap (Wth c. 1.5m) on the NW side is attached to the exterior of the cashel wall at NW. 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

• LE015-096002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. A short roofless passage (L 2.4m; Wth c. 1.5m) oriented N-S with some side-stones visible at the W side leads, at its S end, to a subcircular depression (dims. 3.8m N-S; 2.6m E-W) in the SW quadrant of cashel (LE015-096001-). 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

• LE015-096003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Located on a shelf towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. A small annexe or house site (int. L 4.5m; int. Wth 1.8m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 0.9-1.45m) with an entrance gap (Wth c. 1.5m) on the NW side is attached to the exterior of the wall of cashel (LE015-096001-)at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 September, 2016

• LE015-124 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located on a low-lying plateau with areas of rock outcrop. It is indicated only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as the site of a cashel. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. c. 18m; ext. diam. c. 30m) defined by slight traces of a stone wall with facing-stones. 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 Cashel.

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 Cashel, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cashel · An Caiseal

Area

923,217 m² (92.32 ha, 228.13 acres)

Civil parish

Killanummery, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Drumahaire, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,714 people lived in 639 households in the Drumahaire electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarney, Carrickmurray, Drumconor, Drummury, Geskanagh Glebe, Gortatresk

Placenames

Cashel 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.