Laghtneill
Laghtneill is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Leacht Néill.
- Area
- 63 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghtneill, from 1,975 m² to 117,480 m² (11.75 ha, 29.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Laghtneill 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
2 Aug 2019Conditional
Retention of a single storey extension to dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5952
8 Mar 2017Conditional
Construction of new slatted unit cubicle house with loose bedded area and straw shed which will adjoin an existing shed together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4550
17 Aug 2012Unconditional
Dwellinghouse, extension of duration to permission granted under planning reg 07/7880
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5777
17 May 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7880
30 Apr 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7393
24 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of effluent tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10009
17 Jan 2006Conditional
alterations and extension to dwelling and installation of proprietary treatment system to replace existing septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4155
16 Sept 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6750
11 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/1480
9 Jul 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5271
18 Mar 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/1809
19 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and effluent treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/973
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 Laghtneill.
Recorded monuments
- CO083-112001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
On level tract of ground in valley headwaters of Brouen River, a tributary of River Bride. Comprises long gallery (L 4.4m; Wth 1.95m at W, 0.95m at E end) aligned E-W, represented by six sidestones to N, four to S and backstone outside gallery walls at E end. Two jamb-like pillar stones stand at W end of gallery; prostrate slab between them may be displaced closing stone. Closely set outer walling survives along N and S sides. Gallery decreases in height from W to E; large stone on end in E part and another displaced stone at W end may be roofstones. Slight traces of mound survive to W and S. Large block (CO083-112002-) stands c. 10m to S. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 22-3, Co. 32) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)
- CO083-112002 Standing stone
Description
In level pasture, c. 11m to S of wedge tomb (CO083-112001-). Stone (H 1.42m; 2.75m x 0.5m) is subrectangular in plan, long axis NW-SE; two prostrate slabs, almost concealed in ground, abut stone to either side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laghtneill.
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 Laghtneill, about 1 in 5 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laghtneill.
- 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 Laghtneill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Laghtneill · Leacht Néill
- Area
- 629,874 m² (62.99 ha, 155.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Warrenscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 789 people lived in 280 households in the Warrenscourt electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardrah, Bellmount Upper, Commons, Commons, Glannarouge East, Glannarouge West
- Placenames
- Laghtneill 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.