Laragh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laragh, from 277 m² to 162,520 m² (16.25 ha, 40.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Laragh 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.

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  for a storey and a half dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers, together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460399

• 8 Aug 2024Conditional

  for a single storey extension to side and front porch to existing single storey detached dwelling, relocation of single storey detached domestic garage from previously granted planning ref. no. 20/47, revised boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460366

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  to retian and complete alterations made to location of dwelling and garage granted under Planning Ref. No. 22/250 and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23293

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct an industrial shed, yard, access off existing driveway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360082

• 23 Jan 2023Refused

  to construct an industrial shed, yard, access off existing driveway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2317

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  permission to retain amendment to condition 3C of Planning Permission Ref No: 00/1270 and all associated development works on this site at Moyer, Kingscourt

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 22246

• 14 Jun 2022Conditional

  for a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, waster water treatment system and percolation area, new driveway, entrance walls and piers, and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22250

• 18 Jan 2022Refused

  construct bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new driveway, entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2210

• 9 Aug 2021Refused

  for development consisting of a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new driveway, entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21498

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a two storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto existing public roadway, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2047

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of (1) To construct a single storey extension at the front of the school consisting of en-suite classroom, assisted WC and link corridor to main school building (2) Construct en-suite toilets at rear of school (3) Construct service road to access grass playing pitch and create hard surface play area. The proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure (The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Ref No 35034)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18186

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 Laragh.

Recorded monuments

• CV035-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by slight remains of a wide earthen bank bounded by a modern laneway, and a wide, deep, waterlogged fosse which survives only from SW-NW where it has been modified and utilised as a field drain. Elsewhere the bank is bounded by a modern laneway. Modern farm buildings abut the site at NNW. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV035-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Situated on the NE slope of a drumlin ridge. Not visible at ground level. 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

• Our Lady of Mount Carmel, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1858, comprising stepped three-stage breakfront as centre bay of gabled entrance facade, three-bay nave, single-bay chancel, altered single-storey sacristy to west. Pitched replacement slate roof with clay ridge tiles, barge stones with corbelled kneelers to gables, Celtic stone crosses to gable apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth-rendered plinth, sandstone ashlar ledge stones to steps over first and second stages of breakfront and stone capping over canted third stage. Punched sandstone quoins to chancel gable, stepped punched sandstone ashlar buttress to northeast corner of nave. Pointed arch window to second stage of breakfront with stone surround, label moulding and sill, having figurative stained glass, flanked by roundels with stone surround and coloured glass. Pointed arch entrance in wider ground stage of breakfront with stone surround, label moulding resting on medieval-style mask stone corbels, jamb stones to base, recent fixed overlight and timber sheeted door. Pointed arch windows with stone surround, label moulding and sill, having coloured glass to nave. Pointed arch window openings with stone surround, label moulding and sill, having figurative stained glass of c.1970, to chancel, windows to sides of chancel having coloured glass. Truncated pointed arch opening with timber casement window to north nave elevation at east end. Exposed king-post truss roof to interior with gallery to south-east end. Stucco detailing to pointed chancel arch comprising hood moulding on angel corbels, moulded soffit springing from pair of truncated colonettes resting on kneelers. Stucco hood moulding to altar window with colonettes and sill course. Stucco surround and chamfered jambs to side windows of chancel, pointed arch opening with chamfered surround and timber sheeted door to west. Decorative stone reredos and altar table with recent timber lectern and cathedra. Cast-iron belfry, erected c.1910, to south. Pair of hexagonal-profile limestone ashlar piers with conical caping supporting cast-iron gates and flanked by rubble stone boundary walls.

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 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 Laragh.

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 Laragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Laragh

Area

899,580 m² (89.96 ha, 222.29 acres)

Civil parish

Enniskeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Enniskeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniskeen electoral division: 482 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cordoagh, Corraneary, Drumcrin, Gallonboy, Moyer, Muff

Placenames

Laragh 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.