Leitrim

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim, from 339 m² to 994,899 m² (99.49 ha, 245.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Leitrim 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.

• 14 Oct 2026N/a

  Retention Permission to retain as constructed the following, 1. Extension to rear of existing dwelling, and 2. Domestic Garage, together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660545

• 23 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission to: (1) Demolish existing dwelling house and partial outbuilding; (2) Construct new replacement house; (3) Upgrade existing treatment system with new proprietary treatment system and percolation area; (4) Relocation of site entrance along with boundary treatments and all associated ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22514

• 15 Mar 2022Refused

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22144

• 24 Feb 2022N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22108

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct new slatted shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20539

• 28 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20447

• 17 Apr 2020Refused

  to construct single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20149

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Bellanagare Bog SAC 000592
• Special Protection Area: Bellanagare Bog SPA 004105
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellanagare Bog 000592

Recorded monuments

• RO015-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 27m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3.8-4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) NW-ENE and a scarp (H 0.5-0.65m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 36m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m at W to 6.8m at E; int. H 0.35-1m; ext. H 1-1.5m) with traces of internal and external facing stones, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 6m; D 0.5m) N-SE. The stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at E. Rath (RO015-036----) is c. 40m to the NE, and souterrain (RO015-065----) is c. 120m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35.5m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) N-E-S and a scarp (H 0.4-0.5m) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.3-0.4m) WSW-NW. It is overlain by a relict NE-SW field wall towards the perimeter at SE. There is no visible entrance. Rath (RO015-035----) is c. 40m to the SW, and souterrain (RO015-065----) is c. 180m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-037001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 42m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3-3.8m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m) S-W-N and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance, but the perimeter is circumvented by a farm lane S-W. The 'Cave' marked on the OS 6-inch map as inside the perimeter at S and described as artificial (OS Name Books) is undoubtedly a souterrain (RO015-037002-), but it cannot be seen now. Cashel (RO015-069001-) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-037002 Souterrain
  Description

  Inside the perimeter of rath (RO015-037001-) at S. The 'Cave' marked on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, described as arteficial (OS Name Books) and undoubtedly a souterrain, cannot be seen now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-038 Well
  Description

  Marked similarly on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering as 'Tobernavean' meaning the bird's well on both. Situated on level ground at the source of the Carricnabraher River which flows off to the E and N. This is a rectangular well (dims 1m NNE-SSW; 0.85m WNW-ESE) defined by concrete walls (T 0.2m) with a gate on the N side. There is a pump-house nearby. There is no evidence of, or knowledge of, veneration. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-039 Boundary mound
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a raised bog. This no longer exists but was a boundary marker erected probably by the Ordnance Survey in the 1830s. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-065 Souterrain
  Description

  Towards the top of a S-facing slope. There is local information about a lintelled passage which was closed up in the 1950s. Rath (RO015-035----) is c. 120m to the SE, and rath (RO015-036----) is c. 180m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-069001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Towards the top of a NE-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (int. dims 35m NW-SE; 9.5m NE-SW) defined by the foundations of a stone wall with facing stones (Wth 1.7m) NW-ESE. The site is truncated by a NW-SE stone wall at SW and does not survive SW of this, apart from bands of boulders or spoil (Wth 3m) ESE-SE and SSW-NNW (int. diam. c. 35m NW-SE; c. 35m NW-SE). A hut-site (RO016-069002-) (ext. diam. 3.8m; int. diam. 3m) defined by a wall footing (Wth 0.3m) survives inside the perimeter at NE. Rath (RO015-037001-) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO015-069002 Hut site
  Description

  Towards the top of a NE-facing slope. A hut-site (ext. diam. 3.8m; int. diam. 3m) deifined by a wall footing (Wth 0.3m) but with no visible entrance survives inside the perimeter of cashel (RO015-069001-) at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Leitrim, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Leitrim · Liatroim

Area

5,960,460 m² (596.05 ha, 1,472.86 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Fairymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 134 households in the Fairymount electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arraghan, Cloonfinglas, Cornamucklagh and Falmore, Grallagh, Lisduff, Lugakeeran, Mullen, Raheely

Placenames

Leitrim 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.