Lahern
Lahern is a townland in the civil parish of Leighmoney, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Leathfhearann.
- Area
- 31.2 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 2,829 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lahern, from 46 m² to 122,788 m² (12.28 ha, 30.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Lahern 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
16 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for alterations and construction of extensions to rear, sides and front at lower ground and upper ground floor levels, elevational alterations, demolition of existing retaining walls, construction of new retaining walls, decommissioning of existing effluent treatment system and installation of new on-site treatment works and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1301
14 May 2018Conditional
Retention of the existing dwelling as constructed (change of plan to that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 2529/74), and all ancillary works. Permission for alterations to the wastewater arrangements serving the existing dwelling, namely; the decommissioning and removal of the existing septic tank, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5218
21 Dec 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9603
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 Lahern.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lahern.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lahern.
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 Lahern, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lahern.
- 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 Lahern with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Lahern · An Leathfhearann
- Area
- 312,011 m² (31.2 ha, 77.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leighmoney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Leighmoney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 814 people lived in 259 households in the Leighmoney electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Leighmoney Beg, Ship-Pool
- Placenames
- Lahern 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.