Laragh
Laragh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbolane, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Láithreach.
- Area
- 219.5 ha
- 542 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,814 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laragh, from 64 m² to 270,874 m² (27.09 ha, 66.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Laragh 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
17 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission to: a) Demolish single storey section to rear of existing dwelling, b) Construct 1no. window on each of the existing south western and north eastern elevations, c) Minor alterations to fenestration of the existing south eastern elevation, d) Raise the height of an existing chimney, e) Construction of two storey extension to rear of existing single storey dwelling, f) Construction of a new detached domestic garage, g) Widen existing vehicular entrance, h) Install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5433
23 Jun 2025Incompleted application
(a) Demolish single storey section to rear of existing dwelling, (b) Construct 1 No. new window on each of the existing South Western and North Eastern elevations, (c) Minor alterations to fenestration of the existing South Eastern elevation, (d) Raise the height of an existing chimney, (e) Construct a new extension to the rear of existing dwelling, (f) Construct a new detached domestic garage, (g) Widen existing vehicular entrance and (h) Install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5208
19 Feb 2020Conditional
Retention of detached domestic garage/store.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4325
6 Dec 2013Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, entrance and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6317
7 Jun 2013Conditional
Retention of existing vehicular entrance and associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/5067
5 Nov 2012Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension to existing bungalow and erection of a detached domestic garage, retention of existing as-built bungalow on site and retention of second domestic vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6282
28 Aug 2012Incompleted application
Permission for construction of single storey extension to existing bungalow, detached domestic garage and retention of second domestic vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5851
9 Jul 2010Refused
Bungalow, entrance & wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5709
2 Jul 2010Conditional
Bungalow, entrance and wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5645
5 Feb 2010Incompleted application
Bungalow, entrance and wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4216
22 Dec 2008Conditional
Construction of detached domestic garage and waiving of Condition No.9 of Planning Reg. No. 08/7051 to allow for the provision of dormer windows to front of permitted dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10267
17 Nov 2008Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9696
28 Oct 2008Incompleted application
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9444
26 Aug 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 08/8567
9 Jun 2008Conditional
Construction of storage shed and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7170
3 Jun 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 08/7051
31 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling and installation of septic tank
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 08/5754
24 Jul 2007Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9813
21 May 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/7981
13 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of a slurry storage tank & associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13270
31 Jul 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9378
3 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6061
3 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6062
3 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6067
19 Feb 2004Conditional
Bungalow and proprietary waste water treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/975
The 25 most recent of 28 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 Laragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Laragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laragh.
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 Laragh, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_740 (ZIP).
- 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 Laragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Laragh · An Láithreach
- Area
- 2,195,138 m² (219.51 ha, 542.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbolane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Milford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 692 people lived in 248 households in the Milford electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhane Lower, Ballyhane Upper, Kilbolane, Kilmore, Maine North, Maine South, Moanarnane
- Placenames
- Laragh 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.