Laheen

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laheen, from 177 m² to 176,183 m² (17.62 ha, 43.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Laheen 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.

• 3 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, (2) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND HOBBY ROOM, (3) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460432

• 28 Mar 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND HOBBY ROOM, (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460418

• 22 Feb 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, (2) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING, (4) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC STORE AND HOBBY ROOM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460200

• 11 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF ONE AND HALF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO DWELLING LINKED TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250632

• 21 Mar 2022N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF ONE AND HALF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO DWELLING LINKED TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250473

• 5 Feb 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STORAGE WAREHOUSE BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050109

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  (1) A STORAGE WAREHOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) RETENTION OF SITE CLEARANCE AND GROUNDWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851807

• 8 Oct 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A STORAGE WAREHOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851551

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carricknahorna Lough And Lough Gorman 002068

Recorded monuments

• DG103-061 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 11m. A subcircular area enclosed by an apparently grass-grown collapsed stone wall which only survives to a height of .2m. A field boundary trims the N perimeter and a gap to the E is probably the entrance. It is situated on the crest of a hill with excellent views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG103-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the steep N slope of Laheen Hill. A subcircular area (diam. c. 24m) enclosed by remnants of an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m at W, 1.5m at N-NE) which survives only on the W, N and E. A fosse (Wth 1m) exists on the NW-NE. It appears that there has been considerable disturbance of the site. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG103-063 Standing stone
  Description

  In the verge of the N15, located in an area of undulating pasture, at the base, on the E side, of a small ridge, known as Laheen Hill, on top of which there is a rath (DG103-061----). Not shown on the 1836 OS 6-inch map, but indicated as 'Standing stone' on the 1907 edition. A standing stone, almost square in plan, and 1.25m high × 1.4m wide; NNE-SSW. In 1964 a Bronze Age burial (DG103-064----) was found close by, and in 1966 a cist (DG103-065----), possibly also of Bronze Age date, was found c. 180 to S. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of revised upload: 6 December 2017

• DG103-064 Pit-burial
  Description

  Located on a slight gravel ridge in farmland. This marks the approximate location of a Bronze Age pit-burial uncovered in 1964 in a tillage field, at a depth of c. 10cm below surface. It consisted of a circular pit (diam. 0.5m; D 0.35m) sealed at top by a stone slab (L 0.54m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.06m). In the base of the pit, a pottery urn was inverted over a pile of cremated bone. A polished stone mace-head lay adjacent to the urn on the SE side of the pit. The urn had collapsed and shattered in antiquity. It was identified as a Cordoned Urn, decorated with raised bands or cordons, with bands of zig-zag and horizontal twisted cord impressions on the neck and bevelled rim. Two decorated sherds of a smaller pot, possible a Food Vessel were also found. The highly polished and well-made stone mace-head has a splayed cutting edge, and an hour-glass-shaped central perforation, which would have held the shaft. A concave facet, defined on its outer edge by a well-defined groove, encloses the top of the central perforation on the two narrow faces of the axe (Ó Ríordáin 1967, 39-44). In the 1960's several flint blades and flakes were recovered from the surface of the tillage field, suggesting prehistoric settlement in the area (Lucas 1963, 119; Lucas 1967, 4-5). In 1966 a cist (DG103-065----), possibly also of Bronze Age date, was found c. 180 to S. There is a standing stone (DG103-063----) close by. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of revised upload: 6 December 2017

• DG103-065 Cist
  Description

  A cist (c. 0.76m x 0.76m; D 0.6m), described as 'a short cist of Bronze Age type', was found at approximately this location in 1966, but was destroyed before it could be fully recorded. A flint thumbnail scraper was recovered from the cist (NMI; Lucas 1969, 96). In 1964 a pit burial (DG103-064----) was found c. 180m to N. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of revised upload: 6 December 2017

• DG103-096 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a level terrace towards the base of a NNE-facing ridge slope, overlooking a flat-based, boggy valley. There are three lakes, Lough Laheen, Lough Gorman and Lough Tullaghevlin, within a few hundred meters of the enclosure, located at the W, N, and SE ends of the valley, respectively. At its SE edge, c. 50m from the enclosure, the terrace gives way to an escarpment of exposed limestone which extends to SE, and shows evidence of quarrying. The enclosure consists of a circular area (24m N–S; 24m E–W) defined by remnants of a stone wall. The wall is evident as a low, moss-covered rise (Wth c. 2.5m; H 0.2m) with large stones protruding on the outer edge at E–S. At N–NE the wall has a pronounced internal scarp which gives the enclosure a slightly sunken or saucer-shaped profile. The SE quadrant of the interior feels stonier underfoot, and a slight undulation traversing the SE quadrant, on a NE–SW axis, may be an internal division or possibly just a line of bedrock. A later drystone field wall, on a roughly N–S axis, crosses the enclosure at SW–NW, overlying the inner edge of the enclosing wall, and partly respecting its curve. Located 6m to S of the enclosure, there is a square structure (3.8m E–W; 4m N–S) defined by a low, sod-covered stony bank (Wth 0.6m; H 0.2-0.3m), possibly remnants of a vernacular building or house. Traces of a second roughly square structure (c. 3.6 E–W; 3.6m N–S) are located 4.4m to E bordered on the E side by a limestone scarp. Attached images: DG103-096----_01.JPG viewed from N DG103-096----_02.JPG viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 November 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laheen.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laheen.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Laheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Laheen

Area

1,444,185 m² (144.42 ha, 356.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cavangarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavangarden electoral division: 464 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagrorty Irish, Carricknahorna, Cashelard, Cavangarden, Garvanagh, Glasbolie, Lurgan

Placenames

Laheen 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.