Leabeg
Leabeg is a townland in the civil parish of Drumatemple, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Liath Beag.
Parcel 669111
- Area
- 5,635 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Leabeg
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 10 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 low.
- 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.
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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.
- Area
- 199.2 ha
- 492 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 4,368 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leabeg, from 1,085 m² to 467,458 m² (46.75 ha, 115.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Leabeg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, associated site works and installation of waste water treatment unit and percolation area at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23389
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Leabeg.
Recorded monuments
- RO034-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure with trees (diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle W-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO034-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 and 1929 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a level, low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in a mature coniferous forest. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO034-046 Moated site
Description
Marked as a rectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) which is truncated at SW by a NW-SE section of the River Suck on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the NE bank of the river. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 21m NW-SE; 8.7m NE-SW) defined by moats at NE (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1.3m; int. D 0.8m; ext. D 0.8m) and SW. A berm (Wth 2m) separates the moats from outer moats (Wth 5m; D 0.3m) at NE and SE. The moats do not survive at NW and the platform backs onto the river at SW (max. ext. dims c. 30m NW; 20m NE-SW). There is a shallow flat-bottomed depression (dims 14.6m WNW-ESE; 6.6m NNE-SSW; D 0.2m) in the central platform. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
- RO034-047 Moated site
Description
Marked as a rectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 45m E-W; c. 25m N-S) which is truncated at N by an E-W section of the River Suck on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the S bank of the river. This is a rectangular area (dims 50m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by the remains of moats (Wth 2.4m) marked by bands of reeds on the E and S sides, and by the river at N, but the perimeter cannot be traced at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
- RO034-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Described as a circular area (diam. 22.5m E-W; 19.5m N-S) defined by a defaced earthen bank and an outer fosse (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Leabeg.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Leabeg, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leabeg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Leabeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Leabeg · Liath Beag
- Area
- 1,992,439 m² (199.24 ha, 492.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumatemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Ballintober, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 855 people lived in 317 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellacagher, Cloonagrassan, Cloonruff (Co. Galway), Drumatemple, Dundermot, Durrow (Co. Galway), Emlaghglasny, Leamore
- Placenames
- Leabeg 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.