Laghtacallow
Laghtacallow is a townland in the civil parish of Kilgarrylander, barony of Trughanacmy, Co. Kerry.
- Area
- 76.1 ha
- 188 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 2,782 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghtacallow, from 50 m² to 87,750 m² (8.77 ha, 21.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Laghtacallow 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
22 Jun 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF TWO POLYTUNNELS, EACH OF HEIGHT 2.99 METRES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF GROWING VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS.
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 22655
8 Jan 2018N/a
permission to retain (1)extension to rear of original dwellinghouse as constructed ,(2)retain detached stores as constructed (3)retain revised site boundaries with associated site works serving same (4)permission to decommission existing septic tank & install a new tricell waste water treatment unit with a sandcell polishing filter & all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 184
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343
- Special Protection Area: Castlemaine Harbour SPA 004029
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castlemaine Harbour 000343
Recorded monuments
- KE046-034 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KE046-036 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laghtacallow.
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 Laghtacallow, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_61 (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 Laghtacallow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Laghtacallow
- Area
- 761,216 m² (76.12 ha, 188.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarrylander, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Electoral division
- Kilgarrylander, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 694 people lived in 260 households in the Kilgarrylander electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardabaun, Caherfealane-Marsh, Cloonearagh, Keel
- Placenames
- Laghtacallow 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.