Lagore Big

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lagore Big, from 18 m² to 477,384 m² (47.74 ha, 117.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 117 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Aug 2025Conditional

  1) Demolition of existing detached garage. 2) New attached garage and 3) Upgrade of existing septic tank to a DWWTS and associated percolation area and site works. All finishes to match existing dwelling finishes

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560879

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of a metal garden storage shed to the rear of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560803

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  development of a new single storey side extension to existing single storey dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460961

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a new single storey 4-Bedroom dwelling house with new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, a new vehicular entrance from the public roadway, a detached garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460298

• 9 Feb 2024N/a

  the development will consist of the construction of a new single storey 4-Bedroom dwelling house with new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, a new vehicular entrance from the public roadway, a detached double garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460092

• 16 Sept 2022Refused

  the construction of a new single storey 4-Bedroom dwelling house with new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, a new vehicular entrance from the public roadway, a detached double garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 221221

• 11 Aug 2022Conditional

  the demolition of an existing 60Sq. Mt single storey outbuilding and the construction of a replacement single storey building divided into 3 sections (1) A secure storage area for Bicycles and Sporting Equipment, measuring 19.13 Sq. Mts. (2) A secure storage area for DIY Tools, Household Items and Garden Furniture, measuring 38.5 Sq. Mts. (3) A Grow and Potting area, measuring 39.95 Sq. Mts, with a combined floor area of 97.6 Sq. Mt's. The above works will also incorporate an above ground 1600-liter rain harvesting system

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221052

• 4 Aug 2022N/a

  the demolition of an existing 60Sq. Mt single storey outbuilding and the construction of a replacement single storey building divided into 3 sections (1) A secure storage area for Bicycles and Sporting Equipment, measuring 19.13 Sq. Mts. (2) A secure storage area for DIY Tools, Household Items and Garden Furniture, measuring 38.5 Sq. Mts. (3) A Grow and Potting area, measuring 39.95 Sq. Mt's, with a combined floor area of 97.6 Sq. Mt's. The above works will also incorporate an above ground 1600-liter rain harvesting system

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221020

• 10 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a part single storey, part storey and a half extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, minor internal alterations to existing dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to replace existing septic tank on site and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211120

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  the unauthorised development consists of alterations to the existing dwelling including the raising of the roof, incorporating 2 dormer windows and the conversion of the attic, the construction of a porch and alterations to the external elevations and the proposed development includes all necessary ancillary works to complete the development

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21114

• 15 Dec 2020Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURTION OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. RA151417 - one & a half storey type dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and modified entrance

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA201955

• 20 Dec 2018Refused

  the development consists of land recovery operation (being) reclamation of agricultural land and all associated site works comprising of the importation of natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone and which comes within the meaning of inert waste, through deposition for the purposes of the improvement or development of land Class 5 of the waste management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007-2008. The above application relates to a development for the purpose of an activity requiring a waste licence

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA181549

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  a new single storey extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling, with a new detached garage along with associated site works including widening of the existing entrance, demolition of existing out-buildings and the provision of a new packaged sewage treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA181514

• 11 Dec 2018N/a

  the development consists of land recovery operation (being) reclamation of agricultural land and all associated site works comprising of the importation of natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone and which comes within the meaning of inert waste, through deposition for the purposes of the improvement or development of land Class 5 of the waste management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007-2008. The above application relates to a development for the purpose of an activity requiring a waste licence

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA181479

• 28 Nov 2018N/a

  a new single storey extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling, with a new detached garage along with associated site works including widening of the existing entrance, removal of existing out-buildings and the provision of a new packaged sewage treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA181423

• 15 Mar 2018N/a

  change of use of existing shed (circa 311m sq.) from agricultural use to storage use for the purposes of preparing headstones (circa 184m sq.) and private vehicle storage use (circa 127m sq.)

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA180254

• 15 Sept 2017Conditional

  1: A change of house type from that granted under DA101424. 2: Permission to revise the site layout which includes moving the percolation area 50m south and the proprietary effluent treatment system 20m east of the location granted under DA101424. 3: Permission to revise the site boundaries from that granted under DA101424. 4: Permission to demolish a store-workshop not incorporated in previous application DA101224

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA171076

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 Lagore Big.

Recorded monuments

• ME038-027 Crannog
  Description

  Situated in a broad shallow basin that lies between Dunshaughlin and Ratoath and S of the R125 road connecting those villages. Lagore Lough – Lough Gabhair or Goat’s Lake - would have been a large lake (dims c. 3km E-W; c. 1km N-S), with an arm extending S (dims c. 1.5km N-S; c. 1km E-W) from its E end. The name Gabhair could be cognate with Gabor – white mare – fraught with mythological meaning (Newman 2011, 28-9). The crannog is located towards the E end of the N arm of the lake, now completely reclaimed. By the seventeenth century the lake is much reduced and is depicted as two lakes on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of County Meath. On this map a long narrow E-W lake is depicted at Little Lagore and is the source of a W-E stream that runs through Ratoath and is one of the sources of the Broad Meadow River. Just E of Lagore Little the larger Lagore Big lake is connected with the E-W stream by a short channel extending N. By the nineteenth century only a canalised W-E stream with its subsidiary drains ran through the N part of the lake, much of which is in Dunshaughlin townland. The Sil nÁedo Sláine – the seed of Áedh of Slane – were kings of Magh Breag ‘the plain of the cleared hills’, when St Patrick lit the defiant Pascal fire at Slane. Breag was a territory that could have extended as far north as the River Dee in Co. Louth and as far south as the River Tolka in Co. Dublin but, although its W boundary is less certain, the River Boyne was never any form of barrier. At the Battle of Imlech Pích in AD 688 a northern cohort of Síl nÁedo Sláine under Congalach Mac Conaing, whose descendants would in time occupy the prehistoric cemetery at Knowth (ME019-030060-), was defeated by a southern section under his cousin, Niall Mac Cernaig. Both were great grandsons of the High King Diarmait Ruanaid (ob. 665) who had his royal house on Lagore crannog. As the victors of Imlech Pich the descendants of Niall – Clann Chernaig Sotail - are described as kings of Brega in the eight century, or more frequently as kings of south Brega. From the late eight century they are styled as Rí Locha Gabhair – king of Lagore – from where they continue into the late tenth century to dominate the area of the later baronies of Skreen and Ratoath. The crannog was burnt in AD 850 and again in 935, and this second conflagration may have led to its abandonment, although no evidence of burning was recorded in excavation. The Clann Chernaig Sotail, now with the family name Mac GiollaSeachnaill (servant of Seachnaill), continue as kings of south Brega, and the death of Maolcron Mac GiollaSeachnaill is recorded in 1171. The name suggests that they had moved closer to the church of Dunshaughlin (ME044-033002-) and might have been occupying the rath (ME044-033001-) there. (Price 1950; Byrne 2008a) The crannog was first noted by Sir William Wilde (1840) when the channel running through it SW to E was being deepened and copious amounts of bone was being drawn from the site. Numerous artefacts of high quality were found and some of these were acquired by the museum of the Royal Irish Academy and are now in the National Museum of Ireland. Wilde describes what is probably the plank palisade divided into compartments, and this was also how William Wakeman (1880, 324-5) recorded it in 1848. The royal connection with its historical references, and the rich material already collected, prompted the Harvard expedition in the 1930s to attempt the completion of the excavation (E00014) (Hencken 1950). The plank palisade was almost completely gone by this time, but a lot was learned about the construction and use of the crannog. The excavation was a large undertaking in the years 1934-36, and the stream had to be temporarily diverted with dams above and below the monument during the excavation which dug deeper than the old stream bed. The crannog was an oval mound (dims c. 46m NE-SW; c. 34m NW-SE; H 3m) composed of brushwood and timber intermixed with layers of peat, clay and sand. This core was surrounded by three palisades composed successively of wooden piles, posts, and planks which were broadly connected by the excavator with three occupation levels within the crannog, and with further piles in the surrounding lake. The crannog is dated from the seventh to the tenth centuries in line with the documentary references. Its base was constructed in Period 1a, and consisted of layers of brushwood with some timbers laid over a layer of animal bones, including the complete skulls of cattle and horses. Very few stones were present but a layer of ‘bow-shaped timbers’ was laid down beneath the brushwood on the E side of the crannog, with a discarded dugout boat on top. Amongst the artefacts recovered from this level were one sherd of terra sigillata, a distinctive Roman ware dating to the second century AD. This is regarded as residual and not dating the construction which is placed about the middle of the seventh century. The excavator thought that a massacre occurred at this stage as fragments of human remains, such as cuts from skulls were scattered in the foundations particularly at the NE side and outside the crannog mound, but as these date from the Early Bronze Age onwards and a more ritualistic, votive, origin for them can be propounded (Newman 2011, 28-9). The lowest and thickest brushwood layer contained a platform (dims c. 12.5m NE-SW; c. 8.5m NW-SE; max. T 0.65m) of several layers of birch and oak timbers cut with axes, and there was a smaller platform (dims c. 9m NE-SW; c. 4m NW-SE) at the NW edge. The crannog was raised over this in alternate layers of peat and thinner brushwood layers sometimes woven into mats, and there were arcs of wattle walls which the excavator regarded as part of the building process. The pile palisade (max. diam. 41m) was the lowest, made with wooden piles (diam. 5-15cm) driven deeply into the brushwood and the underlying mud. The post palisade was inside the piles (diam. c. 36m) and consisted of oak posts driven in from a higher level. It is found only intermittently and not at all in the W part of the crannog which was probably abandoned at this time as it was covered in silts. The plank palisade (diam. c. 38m) was the last and the most fragmentary, surviving only at NE and in fragments at SW and W. It consisted of shaped upright oak timbers placed c. 2m apart, with slots on two sides into which planks would have been set. The surviving occupation deposits were fragmentary and not always readily associated either with similar deposits in other areas of the mound or particular palisades. No structures survived, apart from isolated hearths and a plank floor, most of which had been removed by the river. However, there was evidence of wicker and daub fragments in unstratified contexts and extensive mats of wattle. Associated with the construction of the lowest brushwood level is the occupation of Period 1b, which is dated by imported E-ware pottery to the seventh and eight centuries. Inside the piles of the first palisade at the NE was a small work-area for making of glass studs. Elsewhere, some scattered hearths are associated with this period by the excavator. Period II is represented by various sand layers and peat pockets within them. A few hearths were recorded amongst the layers. There was a sequence of hearths with numerous stake-holes in the SW area interleaved with clay floors that probably had a relevance for all periods. Period III was characterised by two or three clay layers that may be part of a single phase. These clay layers can certainly be associated with the plank palisade. Hencken’s dating laid the foundation for many subsequent artefact studies (Henry 1965, 48) but, based as it was on the historical references, it has been queried (Raftery 1991, 83-5). Lynn (1985-6) re-interpreted the structural evidence to suggest very plausibly that the bow-shaped timbers are an earlier palisade that has fallen outwards and that the quantities of skulls w

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Lagore Big.

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 Lagore Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Lagore Big · Loch Gabhar Mór

Area

1,934,754 m² (193.48 ha, 478.09 acres)

Civil parish

Ratoath, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Ratoath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ratoath electoral division: 11,894 people in 3,639 households; 84% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Ballymurphy, Dunshaughlin, Elgarstown, Lagore Little, Mooretown

Placenames

Lagore Big 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.