Leabeg Middle
Leabeg Middle is a townland in the civil parish of Lower Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Liaigh Bheag Láir.
- Area
- 92 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 3,712 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leabeg Middle, from 7 m² to 397,009 m² (39.7 ha, 98.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Middle 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
15 Nov 2023N/a
a two storey extension and conservatory (187.2m²) to the rear of single storey detached dwelling Chippenview Cottage and an attic conversion in the cottage as well as ancillary spaces to the rear of the dwelling (56.5m²)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23836
1 Oct 2019Conditional
single storey detached dwelling, new on site domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191065
24 Sept 2019N/a
single storey detached dwelling, together with new on site domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191047
17 May 2017N/a
the following: Alterations and 94sqm extension to front, side and rear of existing 190sqm dwelling as well as ancillary site works necessary to complete development
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17561
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
- Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC 002249
- Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough 000730
Recorded monuments
- WI013-035 Enclosure
Description
Situated on level ground on the edge of a stream. Subcircular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse, visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDJ 97). Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Leabeg Middle.
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 Middle, about 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3396 (ZIP).
- 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 Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Leabeg Middle · Liaigh Bheag Láir
- Area
- 919,802 m² (91.98 ha, 227.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,472 people lived in 797 households in the Newcastle Lower electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyloughlin, Cooldross Lower, Leabeg Lower, Leabeg Upper
- Placenames
- Leabeg Middle 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.