Larganhugh
Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Leargain Aodha
- Area
- 99.6 ha
- 246 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 24,434 m² (2.44 ha, 6.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Larganhugh, from 323 m² to 164,649 m² (16.46 ha, 40.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Larganhugh 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
13 Jan 2021Conditional
1. construction of new carpark which will utilise an existing forest access onto the L-2107 road to include the provision of seating area and bicycle stand. 2. construction of 2 no. extensions to the Fowley's Falls Trail which will comprise of the construction of approx. 1200 metres of trail path up to 2 metres in width with access to the proposed new carpark and to Rossinver Organic Centre. 3. upgrading the existing trail path where required to include diverting approx. 80m of the existing trail around a landslide area. All the above will also include the upgrading of the existing boundary treatments, new stock proof gates, new signage and the addition of new boundary treatments, along with all associated works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 214
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Aghavoghil Bog NHA 002430
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428
Recorded monuments
- LE005-006 Megalithic structure
Description
Situated in a hollow in an undulating area where turf has been cut away. It is marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a as a ‘Giant’s Grave’. Several slabs lie in a clearing in the bog, but there is no clear evidence that they formed a structure. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 83) 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: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Larganhugh.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Larganhugh.
- 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 Larganhugh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Larganhugh · Leargain Aodha
- Area
- 995,863 m² (99.59 ha, 246.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Melvin, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnahaha, Derrynahimmirk, Sraud (Ferguson), Tawnaleck
- Placenames
- Larganhugh 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.