Laggoo

108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laggoo, from 338 m² to 190,600 m² (19.06 ha, 47.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Laggoo 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 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct a new extension to an existing dwelling house along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 41 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 134 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21108

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 350 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201857

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Aughty Bog NHA 001229

Recorded monuments

• GA125-092 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a slight rise, on a S-facing slope in pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of an unenclosed rectangular area (c. 10m E-W; c. 8m N-S) within which a number of upright and recumbent boulders mark graves aligned N-S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

• GA125-093 Quarry
  Description

  In upland pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA125-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved oval enclosure (38.5m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a steep scarp. A field boundary overlies it at S. The interior is 3.5m above the surrounding field level. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

• GA125-095 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 September 2015

• GA125-096 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure and on the 1920 edition as a roughly circular pit (diam. c. 27m). Apart from a slight hollow which indicates the site’s location, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Laggoo, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

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

Name

Laggoo · Leagúch

Area

3,694,666 m² (369.47 ha, 912.97 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Marblehill, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Cloghvoley, Derreennamucka, Gorteenayanka, Loughatorick North, Moyglass

Placenames

Laggoo 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.