Lareen
Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Láithrín
- Area
- 138.9 ha
- 343 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 6,579 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lareen, from 463 m² to 150,545 m² (15.05 ha, 37.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Lareen 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
31 Jul 2025Conditional
construction of a 4 bay open sided agricultural slatted shed with below ground concrete storage tank, raised concrete dry bedded area, concrete feed passage and all associated ancillary works. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560203
5 Jul 2025N/a
construction of a 4 bay open sided agricultural slatted shed with below ground concrete storage tank, raised concrete dry bedded area, concrete feed passage and all associated ancillary works. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560176
1 Nov 2024Conditional
construction of a residential dwelling and on site effluent treatment system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2412
18 Feb 2021Conditional
construct a domestic garage attached to the rear elevation of the existing dwelling and all ancillary works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2130
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lareen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lareen.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1336 (ZIP).
- 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 Lareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Lareen · An Láithrín
- Area
- 1,388,898 m² (138.89 ha, 343.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Gubacreeny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gubacreeny electoral division: 803 people in 316 households; 69% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardfarn (Co. Donegal), Boyannagh, Derryherk, Mullanaleck, Rosfriar
- Placenames
- Lareen 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.