Leugh

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leugh, from 607 m² to 267,844 m² (26.78 ha, 66.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Leugh 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 Leugh 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockanavar Wood 000961

Recorded monuments

• TS044-007 Enclosure
  Description

  On a poorly drained W-facing slope of rising ground in a valley of the Hollyford Hills, overlooking a river valley below. A large circular area (diam. 50m N-S; 54m E-W) enclosed by a low poorly preserved bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.1m), mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m), and an external fosse (Wth 1.3m; ext. D 0.5m). It is depicted as a large oval enclosure on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, truncated by a townland boundary which runs NW-SE across the S sector. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Leugh, Thurles5 sales

Name

Leugh · Leamhach

Area

1,761,047 m² (176.1 ha, 435.16 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Glengar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glengar electoral division: 250 people in 92 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Foildarg, Glengar, Kilmore, Knockanavar, Moher East, Oldcastle, Shanacloon

Placenames

Leugh 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.