# Legaun, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Liagán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 309,521 m² (30.95 ha, 76.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,556 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Cuffsborough, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 360 people lived in 119 households in the Cuffsborough electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/27874 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100809 - Centre: latitude 52.893376, longitude -7.451901 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Legaun, from 73 m² to 98,647 m² (9.86 ha, 24.38 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 254128: 98,647 m² (9.86 ha, 24.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254128.md - Parcel 2559985: 63,896 m² (6.39 ha, 15.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2559985.md - Parcel 255716: 27,722 m² (2.77 ha, 6.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255716.md - Parcel 257144: 26,763 m² (2.68 ha, 6.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257144.md - Parcel 251667: 18,681 m² (1.87 ha, 4.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251667.md - Parcel 227904: 10,684 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227904.md - Parcel 5436385: 10,249 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436385.md - Parcel 253251: 10,100 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253251.md - Parcel 2428549: 9,199 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428549.md - Parcel 227081: 7,581 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227081.md - Parcel 234638: 6,556 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234638.md - Parcel 232201: 5,884 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232201.md - Parcel 2428720: 3,760 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428720.md - Parcel 5436384: 3,102 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436384.md - Parcel 249410: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/249410.md - Parcel 232218: 1,957 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/232218.md - Parcel 2560229: 1,704 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2560229.md - Parcel 5960098: 1,664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5960098.md - Parcel 2428551: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428551.md - Parcel 5960093: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5960093.md - Parcel 5960817: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5960817.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Legaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 24 Jun 2024, Laois County Council 2460367: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT SILAGE PIT CREATING RETAINING WALL, CATTLE CRUSH AND SLATTED UNIT; AND RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR MACHINERY AND ANIMAL SHEDS; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460367/0 - 25 Aug 2023, Laois County Council 2360332: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain concrete walls to machinery yard and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360332/0 - 18 Aug 2021, Laois County Council 21580: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain garage and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/21580/0 - 8 Jul 2020, Laois County Council 20336: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a proposed two storey dwelling house with attic conversion, garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and to include all associated site works at Anster, Ballacolla, Co. Laois.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20336/0 - 21 Jan 2020, Laois County Council 2027: Conditional. Retention. retain extension to agricultural building and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2027/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Legaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Legaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Legaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Legaun, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Legaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/legaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/legaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/legaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Legaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Anster: https://everytownland.com/laois/anster.md - Ballygeehin Lower: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballygeehin-lower.md - Dairyhill: https://everytownland.com/laois/dairyhill.md - Fearagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/fearagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/legaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/legaun