Legan

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legan, from 384 m² to 90,460 m² (9.05 ha, 22.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Legan 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 Legan 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 Legan.

Recorded monuments

• WM030-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in rough wet pasture, with restricted views. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1979 as a much disturbed roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 40m) defined by a low scarp and faint traces of a shallow external fosse which are both poorly preserved. There is no indication of an entrance. The interior rises irregularly towards the centre and a house site (WM030-012001-) is visible in the W quadrant. A modern field fence runs roughly N-S across the perimeter and part of the interior at W. Another old field fence runs ENE-WSW just outside the perimeter at S. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019

• WM030-012001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in rough wet pasture, with restricted views. In the W quadrant of ringfort (WM030-012----) are the remains of a rectangular-shaped house site (long axis E-W) which is defined by a poorly preserved, low bank of earth and stone. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Legan.

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.

No address of the register names Legan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Legan

Area

354,749 m² (35.47 ha, 87.66 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyloughloe, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Mount Temple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Temple electoral division: 743 people in 240 households; 89% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysallagh, Correagh, Fairfield, Fearmore, Mount Temple

Placenames

Legan 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.