Minkill

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Minkill, from 1,614 m² to 111,580 m² (11.16 ha, 27.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Minkill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Minkill 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 the townland of Minkill.

Recorded monuments

• LE031-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the SW-facing slope of a rise which is the summit at the NE end of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 34m) defined by an earthen bank which is best preserved (Wth 4.1m; int. H. 0.55m; ext. H 0.55m generally to 1m at NW) W-NE but is reduced to a scarp overlain by an old field bank at SW. There is an external fosse (Wth 4m; ext. D 0.15m) W-N-S. The interior is bisected by an E-W field bank, but the original entrance is not identified. Raths (LE031-058----; LE031-059----) are c. 75m to the NNE and c. 110m to the NE respectively. It remains unplanted within a forest since at least 1995 (OSAP). 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

• LE031-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a NE-SW drumlin ridge at the NE end. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 30m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 1.95m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.35m) at N, and traces of an external fosse visible as a band of rushes (Wth 4m). The original entrance is not identified. The rath (LE031-059---) is immediately adjacent to the E, sharing the fosse with this monument, and rath (LE031-057----) is c. 75m to the SW. It remains unplanted within a forest since at least 1995 (OSAP). 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

• LE031-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a NE-SW drumlin ridge at the NE end. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 35m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by a round-topped earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H. 0.3m; ext. H 0.45-1.1m) and an external fosse (Wth. 1.8m; D 0.4m). The straight side is at N, but the original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE031-058---) is immediately adjacent to W, and the two monuments share the fosse at this point. It remains unplanted within a forest since at least 1995 (OSAP). 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

• LE031-103 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape c. 100m from the NW bank of the River Shannon, and on the line of the N4 roadway. A circular area of burnt and broken stones (diam. 4m) was excavated (94E0100) in advance of roadworks, but no evidence of a trough or other features was recovered. (Neary 1994, 1995) 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: 18 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Minkill, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1483 (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 Minkill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Minkill · An Mhionchoill

Area

392,561 m² (39.26 ha, 97 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Carrick-On-Shannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,445 people lived in 1,721 households in the Carrick-On-Shannon electoral division. 56% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughriman South, Greagh, Kildorragh, Kiltycarney, Tully

Placenames

Minkill 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.