Laheen

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laheen, from 15 m² to 142,052 m² (14.21 ha, 35.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Laheen 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 Laheen 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 Laheen.

Recorded monuments

• LE030-015 Crannog
  Description

  Located in a boggy hollow that was part of the original Laheen Lough. This is depicted as an oval lake or boggy area (dims c. 700m NE-SW: c. 300m NNW-SSE) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map but the lake is now greatly reduced (dims c. 550m NE-SW; c. 250m NNW-SSE). No trace of the crannog as described in the 1940s by Oliver Davies (SMR file) as a ‘small circular island 20 yards (c. 18m) across, densely overgrown. Close to the shore are many vertical piles about 2 inches (c. 5cm) across, a few larger, and there are a few farther into the structure. Above these are a few beams set radially, and another radial floor below; there is a perhaps a still lower floor set on chords and more mostly fallen boughs rather than logs of the crannog. On the crannog shore is sand and small stones, and some larger stones on the edge of the shore and below the water-level. The island rises 2.5 feet (c. 0.75m) above the water level.’ The location is uncertain and it might be confused with (LE030-016----) but there is no evidence of a crannog at the location provided in the 1940s. (Davies 1942-3, 19) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 October 2019

• LE030-016 Crannog
  Description

  Located near the E shore of Laheen Lough (dims c. 550m NE-SW; c. 250m NNW-SSE) but the lake as represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is not represented was a larger oval area (dims c. 700m NE-SW; c. 300m NNW-SSE). This is an overgrown oval, earth and gravel island (dims 20m N-S; 15m E-W; H 1m) surrounded at the water's edge by a carpet of horizontal timbers consisting of largely of fallen uprights (L 0.8m) flanked by two smaller ones. There is a rough-out of a quernstone and a quernstone fragment on the crannog. A programme of radiocarbon dating undertaken by the Discovery Programme produced a date of 290 +- 20 BP (AD 1520-1654) from wood taken from the crannog (O’Conor and Fredengren 2019, 91). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 10 October 2018 O’Conor, K. and Fredengren, C. 2019 Medieval settlement in Leitrim, c. 1169-c. 1380. in In Kelly, L. and Scott, B. Leitrim: History and Society, 79-101. Dublin, Geography Publications

Architectural heritage

• Laheen Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch stone road bridge, built c.1820, with main arch and smaller secondary arch to east side. Squared rubble stone construction having cut stone voussoirs to arch and rubble stone parapet. Humped deck with tarmac finish and no pedestrian path.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Laheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Laheen · Leathchaoin

Area

992,244 m² (99.22 ha, 245.19 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Killygar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygar electoral division: 128 people in 54 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornahaia (Co. Cavan), Drumcrow North (Co. Cavan), Dunaweel (Co. Cavan), Killygar, Tonaloy (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Laheen 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.