Laharran
Laharran is a townland in the civil parish of Tracton, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Leathfhearann.
- Area
- 106.6 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 1,939 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Green Infrastructure
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laharran, from 33 m² to 456,544 m² (45.65 ha, 112.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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
- G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 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
2 Oct 2023Conditional permission
Permission for partial demolition and alterations of existing dwelling and construction of a storey and a half dwelling with proprietary treatment unit, formation of new entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5964
30 Aug 2016Unconditional
Partial demolition of existing dwelling, construction of a storey and a half dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit, formation of a new entrance and all associated site works - Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 11/5254
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/6171
8 Oct 2015Unconditional
Retention of septic tank and percolation area serving a dwelling (change of location to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 00/482)
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6241
4 Dec 2014Incompleted application
Retention of septic tank & percolation area serving dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/6605
1 May 2013Conditional
Construction of a one-and-a-half storey extension to the side and rear of the existing single storey dwellinghouse including a double garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4799
10 Jun 2011Conditional
Partial demolition of existing dwelling, construction of a storey and a half dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit, formation of a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5254
17 Jul 2006Conditional
Construction of farm building for housing of cattle
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8959
19 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Construction of farm building
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8195
7 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7881
13 Jun 2003Conditional
Agricultural Building
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2891
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 Laharran.
Recorded monuments
- CO099-044 Architectural fragment
Description
This record relates to a moulded stone basin from the Cistercian abbey of Tracton (CO99-043003-) that now stands in the grounds of Minane Bridge R.C. church The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In this instance the entry has been revised. Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 05 November 2013
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water hydrant, erected c.1870, having fluted shaft, banded cap, spout and acorn finial. Set at an intersection along roadside.
- Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c.1830, remodelled c.1890. Single-bay entrance front with central breakfront porch surmounted by bellcote (north), with two-bay nave, single-bay transepts to sides (east, west), and single-bay chancel to rear (south). Single-storey sacristy to rear. Pitched slate roofs with render gable copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and tooled stone cruciform finials to gable ends. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth, render sill band, render quatrefoil decorations to gables, rendered inset fonts to front elevation, tooled stone plaque to porch and buttress to side (west) elevation of nave. Pointed arch window openings with rendered sills throughout. Lead-lined stained glass window with render hood moulding and surround to façade. Fixed multiple-pane windows with timber tracery to side elevations and transepts, having rendered surrounds. Rubble stone boundary walls to north. Rendered boundary walls to street front having square-profile gate piers with recent metal gates. Set within large graveyard.
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 Laharran, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laharran.
- 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 Laharran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Laharran · An Leathfhearann
- Area
- 1,065,943 m² (106.59 ha, 263.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tracton, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Farranbrien, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 532 people lived in 194 households in the Farranbrien electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annacarriga, Farranbrien East, Knocknamanagh
- Placenames
- Laharran 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.