Launtaggart

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Launtaggart, from 1,689 m² to 173,216 m² (17.32 ha, 42.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Launtaggart 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  retention of amended site boundaries to that previously granted under Planning Ref. No. P.00/371. (2) retention permission for a dwelling house including the conversion of the upstairs attic space to living accommodation and connection to the existing septic tank

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2609

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  demolition of rear single storey extension and construction of new side and rear single storey extension to existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18191

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

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

• LE006-001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Located on a broad heather-covered plateau that slopes down gently to the SE. A line of cairns described as ‘Piles of Stones’ is marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It extends NNW-SSE (L c. 1.1 km) on the unbuilt boundary between the townland of Gortnagarn to the W and Launtaggart to the E. None of these cairns are visible on the ground now. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 January, 2016

• LE006-029001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a high, grass and heather-covered limestone plateau that slopes down gently to the SE. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1m; H 0.7m). An entrance is not identified. A drystone wall extends NNW (L c. 40m) with a hut site (int. diam. 1.2m) defined by drystone walling attached to the E of this wall, 25m from the enclosure. 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

• LE006-029002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a high, grass and heather-covered limestone plateau that slopes down gently to the SE. A drystone wall extends NNW (L c. 40m) from enclosure (LE006-029001-) with a hut site (int. diam. 1.2m) defined by drystone walling attached to the E of this wall, 25m from the enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 January, 2106

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Launtaggart.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, high (inferred), 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 Launtaggart.

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

Name

Launtaggart · Lán an tSagairt

Area

2,867,991 m² (286.8 ha, 708.7 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glencar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glencar electoral division: 283 people in 101 households; 78% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crumpaun, Diffreen, Gortnagarn, Largy, Moneengaugagh, Raheenduff, Tawnamachugh

Placenames

Launtaggart 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.