Laughil

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laughil, from 345 m² to 163,635 m² (16.36 ha, 40.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Laughil 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.

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  proposed two storey dwelling with detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560300

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  (a) demolition of a single storey extension, (b) construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing house & a waste water treatment system & associated siteworks

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460067

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

  the proposed extension & internal renovation to existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460015

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  proposed construction of a storey and a half type dwelling house with detached garage, treatment system with percolation area, boundary fence/walls, access to the proposed dwelling to be via the existing entrance that services the existing dwelling house to the South East and which was granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL03/478 and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18126

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 Laughil.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 27m) enclosed from SE-S-ENE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4-3.6m; H 0.3-0.4m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.3m). A narrow, shallow external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.15m) is evident from NW-NNW-N. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at E may mark the original entrance. A modern WNW-ESE field boundary skirts the rath at S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Laughil.

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 Laughil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Laughil · Leamhchoill

Area

459,620 m² (45.96 ha, 113.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh West electoral division: 509 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanahown, Cooleeshil or Richfort, Grillagh, Killinlastra, Rabbitpark

Placenames

Laughil 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.