Laghty

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghty, from 678 m² to 351,345 m² (35.13 ha, 86.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Laghty 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Laghty in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Laghty.

Recorded monuments

• LE013-004 Earthwork
  Description

  Indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on top of a hill in a coniferous forest. No feature is visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1857 by Rev. John Rogan, with four-bay nave and slightly-projecting entrance bay with bellcote. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed cut sandstone walls with eaves course and date plaque to front elevation. Pointed-arched lwindow openings with tooled sandstone surrounds and sills. Stained glass window to front elevation is dated 1954. Pointed-arched door opening with tooled sandstone surround. Graveyard with grave markers dating from the mid-nineteenth century to present. Site enclosed by modern concrete wall, timber fence and gates. Church refurbished c.1956.

• Glenfarne Hall, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey cruciform former gate lodge, built c.1820, with extension to rear. Fibre cement roof tiles and ashlar chimneystack. Rendered walls. Replacement timber casement windows with painted tooled stone sills and label mouldings. Replacement glazed timber door with painted tooled stone label moulding. Tooled limestone gate piers and decorative cast-iron railings to front of site are former gates to Glencarne Demesne.

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 Laghty, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Laghty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Laghty · Na Leachtaí

Area

958,182 m² (95.82 ha, 236.77 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Glenfarn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

161 people lived in 56 households in the Glenfarn electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ardmoneen, Brockagh Lower, Cornaman, Loughros, Sranagross

Placenames

Laghty 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.