Largy or Forthenry

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largy or Forthenry, from 1,397 m² to 235,245 m² (23.52 ha, 58.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Largy or Forthenry 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 Largy or Forthenry 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 Largy or Forthenry.

Recorded monuments

• CV016-077001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 32.4m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with accompanying outer fosses. External fosse may be relatively modern. Outer bank is exceptionally broad (Wth 8m). Break in inner bank with remains of accompanying causeway at ESE may represent 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

• CV016-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An earlier report (OPW 1968) described a subrectangular area (int. dims. 47m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank from NW-N-SE and elsewhere by a scarp with slight remains of an earthen bank on its upper edge in places. At that time, much of the S half of the site had already been disturbed by field boundaries. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV016-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, an intermediate narrow, deep, waterlogged fosse and a low counterscarp external bank identifiable only from N-E-SE. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SSW represents original entrance. Situated on the summit of a low drumlin hill which is surrounded by marsh except from WNW-NW-N. 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

• CV017-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, the outer face of which has been incorporated into the field boundary, and a wide, shallow, waterlogged fosse identifiable only from NE-S. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Largy or Forthenry.

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 Largy or Forthenry.

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

Name

Largy or Forthenry

Area

1,401,137 m² (140.11 ha, 346.23 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ashfield electoral division: 414 people in 135 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dernaskeagh, Drumbrollisk, Drumsheil, Lettermore, Lisnageer, Mullaghboy

Placenames

Largy or Forthenry 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.