Lauragh Lower

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lauragh Lower, from 364 m² to 211,110 m² (21.11 ha, 52.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Lauragh Lower 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.

• 25 Sept 2026N/a

  change of use from residential to short-term letting use

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660924

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SITE ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED ALL WITHIN REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES (PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED AS PER PLANNING 05/2395)

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17720

• 26 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNIT, INTERMITTENT FILTER, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17374

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158

Recorded monuments

• KE108-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a rise near the SE shore of Kilmakilloge Harbour. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In mixed woodland and pasture, on a hillock to the W of the Healy Pass road. A raised roughly circular area (28m N-S; 23m E-W; H 2.05m) defined by a scarp with a rim, an intervening fosse (Wth 2.75m) WNW-NNE and an outer bank (H 0.15m) WNW-NNE. The earthen scarp and the rim are eroded and crossed by numerous cattle-breaks and paths. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 5.6m) at SW. The interior is uneven and slopes gently down to the E. There is a souterrain (KE108-018001-) in the SE quadrant. Trees grow within and around the rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-018001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (KE108-018----). In the SE quadrant of the rath are two depressions, c. 9m apart, each with an opening at its centre. These depressions indicate a general NNW-SSE orientation for the souterrain beneath. Through the opening in the larger depression (1.9m N-S; 1.4m E-W) at NNW, the souterrain chamber (H 1.6m), possibly earth-cut and with a curving roof, is visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-065 Bridge
  Description

  Humpback road bridge (long axis NE-SW) spanning the Owenshagh River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Two central segmental arches (span 4.9m) with roughly shaped voussoirs span the river channel; corbels project at the springing points under arches. High pointed cut-water appears to have been added to central pier (Wth 1m). Semicircular dry arch (span c. 5m) on each bank, each separated from adjacent main arch by a wide pier; N-most bears a high, wide cut-water, apparently an addition, on the upstream side. The N dry arch has been encased in concrete on the downstream side and the parapet has been rebuilt over it. Stone paving occurs under both dry arches and an artificial cascade has been built on the downstream side of the S arch. The river bed under the two main arches has been masked by concrete. Approximately 10m to N is a smaller bridge (KE 108-066----) spanning a minor channel of the river. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-066 Bridge
  Description

  Road bridge (long axis N-S) spanning a minor channel of the Owenshagh River. Built of random rubble sandstone. Three lintelled trabeate arches (span c. 1.55m); central arch spans stream, flanking arches are dry. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-067 Bridge
  Description

  Road bridge (Wth 6.2m; long axis NE-SW) spanning the Owenshagh River. Built of semi-coursed rusticated sandstone ashlar. Single segmental arch with well-shaped rusticated voussoirs. Pillar buttresses flank arch. Horizontal band course at base of parapets. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE108-069 Forge
  Description

  Roadside forge, rectangular in plan (long axis NW-SE) and built of random rubble. Horseshoe-shaped arch, with cut stone voussoirs, at the centre of the gabled front (SE) elevation. Chimney on the NW gable. Recent lean-to addition to the SW side. Not named on the 1846 OS 6-inch map but the structure may be indicated. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Lauragh National School, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey schoolhouse, dated 1862, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre. Extension to rear to south-east, built 1998. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystack having ashlar quoins below roofline. Painted rendered walls with exposed ashlar quoins and limestone carved name and date plaque. Limestone ashar lintels, sills and reveals to replacement timber windows. Limestone door surrounds with chamfered reveals to replacement timber boarded doors, approached by limestone steps. Rubble stone retaining wall to road.

• Lauragh Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1830, on a curved plan with round arches and rubble stone voussoirs. Renovated, c. 1960, with concrete arch added to north. Spans river Owenshagh.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, comprising three-bay single-storey range with dormer attic to left having single-storey box bay window to centre and two-bay two-storey gable-fronted block to right. In use as post office in 1897. Extended to rear to south-east in late twentieth century with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed return to accommodate commercial use. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, cemented gable parapets, projecting eaves and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Painted stone sills to timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows at first floor, and to paired or tripled six-over-six pane sliding sash windows to public house with false leaded glazings. Replacement timber boarded door with overlight, surrounded by canvas canopy on steel supports. Model of pub and disused fuel pump to front.

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 Lauragh Lower, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Lauragh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Lauragh Lower · An Láithreach Íochtarach

Area

629,227 m² (62.92 ha, 155.49 acres)

Civil parish

Tuosist, and its townlands

Barony

Glanarought

Electoral division

Glanmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

245 people lived in 98 households in the Glanmore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creeveen, Derreen, Dromerkeen, Lauragh Upper

Placenames

Lauragh Lower 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.