Laghtmurreda
Laghtmurreda is a townland in the civil parish of Killilagh, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 125.5 ha
- 310 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 14,212 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghtmurreda, from 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 418,332 m² (41.83 ha, 103.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Laghtmurreda 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
29 Jun 2020Conditional
to (a) renovate and extend existing dwelling and shed, including replacing flat roofs with pitched roofs and changes to windows and doors. (b) close one existing entrance, widen and set back another existing entrance and create a new driveway, with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20428
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Goller 000048
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Laghtmurreda.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laghtmurreda.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Laghtmurreda, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laghtmurreda.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Laghtmurreda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Laghtmurreda
- Area
- 1,255,421 m² (125.54 ha, 310.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killilagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Lurraga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 296 people lived in 98 households in the Lurraga electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughiska Beg, Aughiska More, Knockaguilla, Lisdoonvarna, Slievenagry, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Laghtmurreda 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.