Lahard
Townland in the civil parish of Killashandra, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 124.9 ha
- 309 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 9,060 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lahard, from 286 m² to 113,129 m² (11.31 ha, 27.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lahard 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
11 Jan 2017Conditional
for development previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 10/195 - to erect new Poultry House extension to rear of existing Poultry House reg. no. IEB161A and construct new deep underground wash water tank and all ancillary site works. This application will include a NIS as part of its submission.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 177
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: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
Recorded monuments
- CV019-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
An earlier report (OPW 1969) describes a raised circular area (int. dims. 46m E-W; 45m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank. Original entrance was at SSE. Situated on the summit of a drumlin hill. Site has been levelled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV024-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. From NW-N-S a modern laneway extends along the fosse. Partially blocked break in bank at SE probably represents original entrance. Spring well at NE. Densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV024-059 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35.7m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, best defined at N, and a wide fosse. Break in bank at SE probably represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV024-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. dims. 36.3m NNW-SSE; 32.7m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse of which only slight traces survive from NE-SSE. Well-defined break in bank with faint traces of accompanying causeway at NE probably represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lahard.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Lahard.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lahard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Lahard
- Area
- 1,248,970 m² (124.9 ha, 308.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashandra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Electoral division
- Corr, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corr electoral division: 284 people in 99 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Lahard 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.