Leitrim South

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leitrim South, from 26 m² to 235,400 m² (23.54 ha, 58.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Sept 2024N/a

  Single house with a detached garage and effluent treatment system

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460300

• 13 Aug 2024N/a

  single house with detached garage and effluent treatment system

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460266

• 6 Jan 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the demolition of existing dwelling house and to construct new replacement dwelling house, garage, access entrance and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 213

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: Turloughmore (Sligo) SAC 000637
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Turloughmore (Sligo) 000637

Recorded monuments

• SL038-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope, in an area overgrown with bushes. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m). Only the E half now remains, visible as a raised semicircular area (25m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1m) NE-S. A dry external fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.6m) is evident E-S and a band of boggy ground (Wth 4m) along the NE arc may indicate a silted-up fosse. The interior is raised c. 0.8m above the external ground level. The W half of this rath has been removed by quarrying. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL038-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge and skirted by a lane NE-SE. A subcircular area (c. 29m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.2m) NW-NNE, by a scarp topped by a field boundary NNE-SE and by linear field boundaries elsewhere. The N portion of the interior is raised c. 1.3m to compensate for the hillslope. Indicated as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A castle (SL038-129----) lies c. 50m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL038-048001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. A circular area (diam. 24.5m) enclosed by the remains of a stone wall (Wth 1.1m; H 0.4m) NW-W and by a stone field boundary W-NW. The N half of the interior is raised c. 0.3m to compensate for the hillslope. Foundations of a linear stone wall (6.8m N-S; Wth 0.4m) are visible inside the perimeter on the E side. There is a souterrain (SL038-048002-) in the centre of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL038-048002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the centre of a cashel (SL038-048001-). A depression (3.4m E-W; 1.4m N-S; D 0.5m) extends westwards from the centre of the interior, with the top of drystone-walling visible in places. The depression narrows to 1m at the W end and then widens into a rectangular area (c. 6m E-W; 4.5m N-S). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL038-078 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (19.5m N-S; 20.5m E-W) enclosed by grass-covered foundations of a drystone wall (Wth. 2.2m; int. H 0.3m) NW-SW, with numerous gaps. A stone-built field boundary crosses the W perimeter of the cashel. There is a gap in the wall at NE and an entrance (Wth. 2.8m), revetted by stone on the N side, at E. The interior is raised c. 0.6m above ground level. According to local information, quantities of stone were removed from the enclosing wall in the past. Also according to local information, this cashel was used as a children's burial ground (SL038-078001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL038-078001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Located c. 3.3km ESE of Tobercurry. According to local information, a cashel (SL038-078----) was used as a children's burial ground up to the 1950s. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL038-129 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In an undulating meadow. According to local information, a rectangular area (37m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a natural limestone scarp (H 1-1.5m) on its W, N and E sides, is regarded by local tradition as the site of a castle. This could be either of the 'two old castles' referred to in this townland in 1836 (OSNB vol. 1, 33). Topping the scarp on the W and N sides are gapped sod-covered wall footings (Wth 0.7m; H 0.3m) of large contiguous stones (L 0.5-1m). On the W side, at one point, two courses of the footing are evident. The N half of the interior is level but there is a slope down from the centre to the S where it merges into the surrounding field. At the base of the scarp, outside the N half of the E side, is a subrectangular area of disturbed ground (c. 17m N-S; c. 5m E-W) marked by low sod-covered mounds and heaps of angular stones. This may be the remains of the foundations of the rectangular structure (20m NW-SE; 4.5m SW-NE), divided internally into four separate rooms by cross-walls and known locally as 'the stables', that was noted here in 1991 (SMR (1989) file). A length of mortared wall (6m N-S; T 0.65m; H 2m) stands just outside the SE corner of the rectangular area. Traces of rendering are evident on its E face and there is a roughly circular break (0.7m N-S; H 0.8m) in its centre. Immediately to E is a roughly rectangular area of disturbed ground containing limestone rubble suggesting that it may have been the W wall of a collapsed rectangular structure. Further to S is another rectangular area (c. 10m N-S; c. 5m E-W), recessed into the slope, which may be the trace of a similar structure. A rath (SL038-047----) lies c. 50m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 South, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Leitrim South · Liatroim Theas

Area

2,974,597 m² (297.46 ha, 735.04 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

381 people lived in 132 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Achonry, Carrowkeel, Castleloye, Magheranore, Oghambaun, Powellsborough, Tobercurry, Toberscardan

Placenames

Leitrim South 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.