Largandoon
Largandoon is a townland in the civil parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Learga an Dúin.
- Area
- 240.5 ha
- 594 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,510 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Largandoon, from 1,051 m² to 1,797,918 m² (179.79 ha, 444.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Largandoon 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
23 Apr 2019Conditional
for development consisting of the installation of 40 no. Photovoltaic modules (12kW) with their own roof mounting system on the roof of the teaSHED
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1985
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: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex SAC 000623
- Special Protection Area: Sligo/Leitrim Uplands SPA 004187
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ben Bulben, Gleniff And Glenade Complex 000623
Recorded monuments
- LE003-032 Cairn - boundary cairn
Description
Marked only on the 1909 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Stone’ on the boundary between Treanakillew and Largandoon, c. 40m S of the boundary with Co. Sligo. It is located towards the top of a S-facing slope of a ridge extending SW for Truskmore Mountain. There is no evidence of a stone that might have been used by the Ordinance Survey as a boundary marker. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December, 2015
- LE006-005 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In reclaimed pasture beside a small N-S stream on the N shore of Glencar Lough. Indicated as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’ on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level, but it is described locally as a cashel, the stones of which were used in building field walls. 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: 12 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Largandoon.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Largandoon, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Largandoon.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Largandoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Largandoon · Learga an Dúin
- Area
- 2,405,456 m² (240.55 ha, 594.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killasnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Glencar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 283 people lived in 101 households in the Glencar electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corglass, Meenaphuill, Moodoge (Co. Sligo), Sracreeghan, Treanakillew
- Placenames
- Largandoon 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.