Lavagh

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lavagh, from 37 m² to 127,422 m² (12.74 ha, 31.49 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lavagh 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.

• 18 Oct 2023Conditional

  construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, New Entrance Onto the Public Road, Onsite Wastewater Treatment System with Connections to Services and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360114

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 Lavagh.

Recorded monuments

• LE031-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 27.3m NNW-SSE) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.8-6.7m; Wth of base 4-4.5m; int. D 0.7-0.8m; ext. D 0.4-0.5m) and an outer bank (Wth of base 5.5-6.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) which is incorporated into a field bank at W (max. ext. diam. 49m N-S). An inner bank was present in the 1945 (OSFM) when an entrance was also present at NE, but the outer bank had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 16 October 2019

• LE031-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight SE-facing slope in a low-lying position between drumlins. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W) that slopes down gently to the SE. It is defined by a straight NNW-SSE field bank and hedge at W and an intermittently visible and overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 3.1m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.9m) elsewhere, with traces of an external fosse visible as a band of rushes (Wth 3-10m) E-S. The original entrance is not identified. 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: 16 October 2019

• LE032-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight SW-facing slope. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29.5m E-W; 29m N-S; int. diam. 27.5m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank and hedge (at E: Wth of base 3.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m; at N: Wth of base 4.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext H 0.4m) NW-E-SW, with an external fosse (Wth of base 1.2m; ext. D 0.4m) NW-NE. The perimeter is formed by a slight scarp (H 0.7m) S-NW. An entrance gap at S could be the original entrance and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank NE-S. Rath (LE032-019----) is c. 35m to the E, and rath (LE032-021----) is c. 120m to the SSE. 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 5 December 2019

• LE032-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. This rath was described in 1991 (SMR file) as a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (dims 19.1m N-S; 17.4m E-W) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 3.8m; H 0.4m), except at NNE where an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) survived. There was no visible fosse or identifiable entrance, and the perimeter was slightly truncated by a N-S field bank at W. Its visible profile had been greatly reduced by 2005 (OSAP). Rath (LE032-018----) is c. 35m to the W, rath (LE032-020----) is c. 40m to the E, and rath (LE032-021----) is c. 80m to the S. 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 5 December, 2019

• LE032-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 29.6m E-W; 28.8m N-S; int. diam. 24m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 7-8m; int. H 0.4-0.75m; ext. H 1.1m) which is reduced to a scarp (at E: Wth 6.3m; H 0.8m) E-SE, and an external fosse (Wth of top 4.8-6m; Wth of base 1.5-2m; ext. D 0.2-0.4m). There are gaps in the perimeter at SW and NNW, but the original entrance is not identified. The rath is circumscribed by a field bank NE-S. Rath (LE032-019----) is c. 40m to the W, and rath (LE032-021----) is c. 130m to the SW. 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 5 December 2019

• LE032-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a fairly low-lying position. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 43.6m E-W; 41.7m N-S; int. diam. 39.5m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 3.5-4.55m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m), with traces of an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.7m; Wth of base 1.4m; ext. D 0.15m) N-E. The perimeter is incorporated into field banks E-S-NW, and a water hole has been created outside the bank at SW. There are entrance gaps at NNW and S, but the original entrance is not identified. The raths (LE032-018----; LE032-019----; LE032-020----) form an E-W line c. 120m to the N. 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 5 December, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, 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 Lavagh.

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

Name

Lavagh · Leamhach

Area

546,894 m² (54.69 ha, 135.14 acres)

Civil parish

Annaduff, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumsna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumsna electoral division: 740 people in 284 households; 87% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dristernan, Drumnacot, Fargrim, Foxborough, Headford

Placenames

Lavagh 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.