Largan
Townland in the civil parish of Denn, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 82.6 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 8,345 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largan, from 1,210 m² to 83,895 m² (8.39 ha, 20.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Largan 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
6 Apr 2023Conditional
of alterations to dwelling house in the form of extended kitchen with study over, dormer windows to bedroom 1 and corridor together with RETENTION of domestic double garage building, log store and splitting area, tractor shed. Also the omission of overhangs to all elevations as per planning reg 98/1008
Retention · Cavan County Council, 23160
10 Mar 2023Conditional
for development consisting of a new one and a half storey dwelling, a detached garage, new vehicular entrance to site, installation of mechanical wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works to supersede previous planning application ref: 20/180
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2396
2 Dec 2020Conditional
to erect fully serviced 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance walls and piers, install sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20551
14 May 2020Conditional
for new split-level dwelling part single and two-storey, a detached garage, new vehicular entrance to site, installation of mechanical wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20180
27 Mar 2019Conditional
to retain existing single storey extension to side of existing dormer dwelling and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19116
24 May 2017Conditional
to retain existing retaining wall to rear of existing dwelling and planning permission sought to erect shed to rear of existing dwelling and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17218
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Largan.
Recorded monuments
- CV031-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. dims. 52.4m NNW-SSE; c. 49m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank which has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary, and a wide, deep fosse. Break in bank at S may represent original entrance. However there is no trace of an accompanying causeway. 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
- CV031-047 Ringfort - rath
Description
An earlier report (OPW 1974) described a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. From NW-N-NE a portion of the adjacent linear earthwork 'The Worm Ditch or Black Pig's Race' (CV031-004----/CV032-012----) was utilised as a rampart and at NNE the fosse had been cut through the earlier earthwork. Original entrance was not recognisable. Site has been levelled. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Largan.
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 10 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 Largan.
- 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 Largan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Largan
- Area
- 825,602 m² (82.56 ha, 204.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Denn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Denn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Denn electoral division: 707 people in 245 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadoon or Ravenfield, Aghnahaia Glebe, Ardkill Beg, Ardkill More, Drumbarry, Pollareagh
- Placenames
- Largan 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.