Latt
Townland in the civil parish of Annagelliff, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan; in Irish An Leacht
- Area
- 93.2 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 695
- registered freehold, median 276 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
695 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Latt, from 4 m² to 63,625 m² (6.36 ha, 15.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 645 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Public Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Proposed Low Density Residential (New/proposed residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 May 2026Conditional
for the installation of a single biomass boiler enclosure and new 2,000 litre LPG tank located to the rear of the site at, St. Patricks Secondary School, Cullies, Co. Cavan, H12 K827. This site contains three protected structures Reg No: 40000447, 40402024 and 40402023 and a recorded monument (CV020-008)
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660273
8 May 2026N/a
for the installation of a single biomass boiler enclosure and new 2,000 litre LPG tank located to the rear of the site at, St. Patricks Secondary School, Cullies, Co. Cavan, H12 K827. This site contains two protected structures Reg No: 40402021 and 40402023
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660238
15 Apr 2026N/a
for the installation of a single biomass boiler enclosure and new 2000 litre LPG located to the rear of the site
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660182
10 Mar 2026N/a
for the installation of a single biomass boiler enclosure and new 2000 litre LPG located to the rear of the site
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660101
3 Mar 2026Conditional
to Instal 2 no. roof lights to attic space
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660093
20 Dec 2025Conditional
for the erection of a detached domestic store to the rear and northern side of the existing house and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560765
17 Apr 2025Conditional
for alterations to existing two storey dwelling comprising (1) demolition of existing rear two storey extension, (2) alterations to fenestration, external finishes & roof to all elevations, (3) alterations to existing floor plans, (4) two storey extension to front of dwelling, (5) two storey extension to rear of dwelling, (6) erection of detached domestic garage, (7) alterations to existing entrance, (8) construct new entrance to rear of dwelling, and (9) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560177
17 Apr 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new detached dwelling of 347 sqm comprising 5 bed two storey plus attic accommodation with separate single storey garage 38 sqm located to the rear of the site and the provision of new entrance pillars to existing entrance and all associated site works, landscaping including new connection to public services at a site of 3480 sqm 0.348 h.
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560178
26 Apr 2024Conditional
to change house plans & elevations of previously approved and partially constructed 2 storey dwelling to Bungalow Type Dwelling and all associated works at (Previous Planning Reg 23/3 applies)
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460175
10 Apr 2024Refused
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FULLY SERVICED TWO-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, ENTRANCE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460132
31 Mar 2024Conditional
for refurbishment and modification of the existing dwelling house of 206m2(including garage (15m2) and first floor storage space (46m2)) to 216m2 and includes; The conversion of the attic from storage to bedroom accommodation (56m2); The removal of 2no. existing dormers and 1 No. rooflight and replacement with 3No. dormers and 2no. roof lights; The removal of 2no. chimneys; The conversion of the garage to a home office(15m2); and all associated energy upgrade, site development, hard/soft landscaping, and excavation works above and below ground
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460122
28 Feb 2024Conditional
for a Large-scale Residential development consisting of the provision of a total of 145no. residential units along with provision of a crèche. Particulars of the development comprise as follows: (a) Site excavation works to facilitate the proposed development to include excavation and general site preparation works. (b) The reprofiling of ground levels within the site and associated site works as required. (c) The provision of a total of 91no. residential dwellings which will consist of 25no. 2 bed units, 55no. 3 bed units and 11no. 4 bed units. The dwellings range in height from single storey to two storey. (d) The provision of a total of 54no. duplex apartment units consisting of 15no.1 bed units and 39no. 2bed units. The duplex apartment blocks range in height from two storey to three storey in height. (e) Provision of a 2 storey creche with associated parking, bicycle and bin storage. (f) Provision of associated car parking at surface level via a combination of in-curtilage parking for dwellings and via on-street parking for the creche and duplex apartment units. (g) Provision of electric vehicle charge points with associated site infrastructure ducting to provide charge points for residents throughout the site. (h) Provision of associated bicycle storage facilities at surface level throughout the site and bin storage facilities. (i) Creation of a new access point from the public road with associated works to include for a connections to the existing public footpath along with provision of a pedestrian crossing point with a raised table. (i) The provision of a new shared cycleway and footpath to serve the site. (j) Provision of internal access roads and footpaths and associated works to include for retaining walls and regrading of site levels as required. (k) Provision of residential communal open space areas to include formal play areas along with all hard and soft landscape works with public lighting, planting and boundary treatments to include boundary walls, railings & fencing. (l) Internal site works and attenuation systems which will include for provision of a hydrocarbon and silt interceptor prior to discharge. (m) Installation of culverts and headwalls to facilitate crossing over the existing watercourse aligning the site boundary with associated works. (n) All ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate foul, water and service networks for connection to the existing foul, water and ESB networks. A Natura Impact Statem
Permission, 91 homes · Cavan County Council, 2460067
13 Jan 2023Conditional
to alter floor plans and elevations of previously approved dwelling, complete partially constructed dwelling, connections to all services and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 233
25 Nov 2022Conditional
to erect a fully serviced single storey dwelling with attached carport & domestic garage, new site entrance, connection to existing public foul sewer and mains water supply servicing site and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22476
26 Oct 2022Conditional
for the erection of detached domestic store to rear of existing house and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22437
22 Aug 2022Conditional
to construct a new replacement detached domestic garage/store to existing dwelling house, together with demolition of existing detached garage building and removal of temporary timber storage shed
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22340
22 Jun 2022Conditional
is sought to erect 15 no. dwellings(1 no. 3 bedroom detached dwelling, 6 no. 3 bedroom semi detached dwellings and 8 no. 2 bedroom terraced dwellings), access via existing service road, connect to public foul and storm water sewers, public watermains and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 22261
17 Jan 2022Conditional
to retain alterations to existing dwelling and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 227
2 Nov 2021Conditional
of change of use from attached domestic garage to bedroom en-suite & games room and bay window extension, to existing dwelling including alterations & elevations
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21668
28 Oct 2021Conditional
to retain the change of use of existing first floor from residential to a commercial creche along with internal alterations, and also PERMISSION consisting of: (1) modification of the front elevation of the building to include replacement of an existing front window at ground level, with external door; (2) all ancillary site development works
Retention · Cavan County Council, 21650
20 Oct 2021N/a
to remove existing and to construct a new replacement detached domestic garage/store at existing dwelling house, together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21644
18 Oct 2021Conditional
of storage compound and yard area as ancillary space for equestrian use, including stock piling of materials, equestrian props, storage containers, surplus lorry parking and associated works Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21634
18 Oct 2021Conditional
retain steel framed and cladded building for farm and equestrian use and associated works
Retention · Cavan County Council, 21636
6 Oct 2021Conditional
to erect single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling, attic conversions to living accommodation, connection to existing services, alterations to floor plans and elevations, demolition of existing domestic store and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21608
1 Sept 2021Conditional
to erect 2 no. 4-bed detached two storey dwellings, one on existing foundations of previously approved planning reference 01/1850, revised site layouts, connection to existing services, landscaping and all associated & ancillary site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21548
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
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 Latt.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Latt.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Felim's Hospital, workhouse, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Tudor Revival H-plan two- and three-storey workhouse with dormer attic, built 1841-42, later used as a hospital, now disused. Layout consists of five-bay two-storey front building to east close to site entrance, with former children’s yards to rear, in front of thirteen-bay main building having advanced double-pile gable-fronted end bays containing adult wards. Hip-roofed single-storey laundry and kitchen blocks to rear flanking single-storey utility spine and separating former adults’ yards. Two-storey infirmary block forms west end of yards, former infirmary yards behind this with single-storey mortuary building on axis to rear adjoining walled garden. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, decorative timber bargeboards to road-facing gables and dormer windows, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and snecked random-coursed rubble sandstone walls with flush cut stone quoins, square-headed openings with cut stone voussoirs and block-and-start surrounds, all with stone sills. Double leaf timber panelled door in Tudor arch with overlight set within dressed-stone block-and-start square-headed opening. Tripartite timber sash windows with convex horns to gable-fronted block and flanking main door opening. Variety of timber sashes and casements to other windows, diamond pane lattice windows to dormers. Entrance block set lower than main building connected by external steps, has gabled breakfronts to outer bays, gablets above windows in inner bays all with decorative time bargeboards. Chamfered surrounds to first floor windows with banded block and start surrounds and Tudor hood mouldings in outer bays. Continuous string course at first foor level, stepping up over wall plaque above entrance door having ‘1841’ in raised letters within recessed panel. Main doorway in chamfered Tudor arch with dressed block and start surrounds flanked by lower windows in similar chamfered surround with connected Tudor hood mouldings. Set on a sloping site with steps down to double-leaf cast-iron entrance gates in piers with rendered wing walls. Complex partially bounded by rubble stone walls, having many fine mature trees and partly screened from view from the road. Substantial monument of Christ The King raised on Gothic style pedestal dated A.D. 1933 to front of gabled end bays to south of main block. Small mortuary with slate roof and roughly coursed stone walls alongside walled garden with tall roughly coursed sandstone walls to the west of rear block. Consecrated ground known as Bully’s Acre on hill slope to north-west of workhouse with unmarked graves of infants and paupers commemorated by single grave marker. Fever hospital on adjoining site to south.
- St Felim’s Hospital, workhouse, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached H-plan five-bay three-storey former workhouse hospital, built 1847, with advanced gable-fronted end bays and single-storey section between end bays to rear, now disused. Steeply pitched slate roofs behind raised gable copings to front and rear with flat corbelled kneelers at eaves, rendered chimneystacks flanking centre bays, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble sandstone walls with dressed quoinstones and window sorrounds. Pointed-arched openings with timber louvres to apex of gables at front and rear. Square-headed window openings having flush block-and start dressings and cut-stone sills with multiple-pane timber windows composed of pivoted overlight over transom and side-hung casements closing to central mullion. Square-headed door opening with replacement double-leaf doors and historic multi-pane overlight flanked by square-headed multiple-pane side lights, all under stepped label moulding enclosing large datestone over door inscribed '1847'. Single-storey buildings to rear, possibly former isolation ward, having slate roof, random ashlar walls and multiple pane timber windows.
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 low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2088 (ZIP).
- 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 Latt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Latt · An Leacht
- Area
- 932,377 m² (93.24 ha, 230.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annagelliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Cavan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cavan Rural electoral division: 8,747 people in 2,931 households; 59% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Latt 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.