Laharan
Townland in the civil parish of Aglish, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 71.4 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 2,408 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laharan, from 25 m² to 173,691 m² (17.37 ha, 42.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Laharan 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
27 Feb 2026Conditional
Retention Permission to retain dwelling house and shed as constructed all within revised site boundaries
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660161
21 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, TO INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS ALL
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20743
13 Aug 2019Conditional
(I) DEMOLISH EXISTING DRY STORE AND CONSTRUCT IN ITS PLACE A LOOSE LIVESTOCK HOUSE, (II) EXTEND EXISTING SLATTED HOUSE / CUBICLE HOUSE, (III) CONSTRUCT A NEW MILKING COMPLEX AND HOLDING YARD WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE TANK, (IV) WIDEN EXISTING ENTRANCE. THE ABOVE TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19851
30 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, GARGAE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19451
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 Laharan.
Recorded monuments
- KE058-147 Kiln - lime
Description
In pasture, incorporated into a field boundary (long axis WSW-ENE). The random rubble front wall of a limekiln with a central arched recess. The rear of the kiln has been removed. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laharan.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laharan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Laharan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Laharan
- Area
- 713,726 m² (71.37 ha, 176.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aglish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Aglish, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aglish electoral division: 520 people in 183 households; 85% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytrasna, Coolroe West, Faha East, Flintfield, Seersha
- Placenames
- Laharan 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.