# Lagore Big, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ratoath, barony of Ratoath, Co. Meath; in Irish Loch Gabhar Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,934,754 m² (193.48 ha, 478.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 17 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ratoath, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/ratoath.md - Barony: Ratoath - Electoral division: Ratoath, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/37986 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 161026 - Centre: latitude 53.508049, longitude -6.506462 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lagore Big, from 18 m² to 477,384 m² (47.74 ha, 117.96 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 219249: 477,384 m² (47.74 ha, 117.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/219249.md - Parcel 161759: 119,530 m² (11.95 ha, 29.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/161759.md - Parcel 214849: 89,497 m² (8.95 ha, 22.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/214849.md - Parcel 145623: 88,614 m² (8.86 ha, 21.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145623.md - Parcel 198067: 87,310 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/198067.md - Parcel 211129: 84,044 m² (8.4 ha, 20.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211129.md - Parcel 207107: 79,878 m² (7.99 ha, 19.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/207107.md - Parcel 194968: 78,034 m² (7.8 ha, 19.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/194968.md - Parcel 210402: 71,447 m² (7.14 ha, 17.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/210402.md - Parcel 211639: 63,810 m² (6.38 ha, 15.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211639.md - Parcel 146790: 60,911 m² (6.09 ha, 15.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/146790.md - Parcel 186296: 59,801 m² (5.98 ha, 14.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186296.md - Parcel 142996: 51,538 m² (5.15 ha, 12.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/142996.md - Parcel 155022: 51,018 m² (5.1 ha, 12.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/155022.md - Parcel 186996: 48,082 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/186996.md - Parcel 171128: 47,189 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/171128.md - Parcel 143763: 38,405 m² (3.84 ha, 9.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/143763.md - Parcel 183373: 36,114 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/183373.md - Parcel 210552: 34,039 m² (3.4 ha, 8.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/210552.md - Parcel 219316: 32,889 m² (3.29 ha, 8.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/219316.md - Parcel 137300: 32,249 m² (3.22 ha, 7.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137300.md - Parcel 202227: 23,337 m² (2.33 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/202227.md - Parcel 152689: 15,805 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152689.md - Parcel 206430: 9,897 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206430.md - Parcel 184289: 8,029 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/184289.md - Parcel 140202: 6,352 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/140202.md - Parcel 157290: 6,079 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/157290.md - Parcel 5213783: 4,689 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5213783.md - Parcel 147516: 4,267 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147516.md - Parcel 5441995: 4,193 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5441995.md - Parcel 136278: 4,082 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/136278.md - Parcel 2762511: 3,780 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2762511.md - Parcel 5244513: 3,744 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5244513.md - Parcel 140514: 3,642 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/140514.md - Parcel 140751: 3,448 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/140751.md - Parcel 170680: 3,213 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/170680.md - Parcel 4621284: 3,114 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4621284.md - Parcel 5244544: 3,000 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5244544.md - Parcel 5244474: 2,948 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5244474.md - Parcel 140617: 2,889 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/140617.md - Parcel 190495: 2,783 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/190495.md - Parcel 190127: 2,708 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/190127.md - Parcel 162677: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/162677.md - Parcel 210276: 2,381 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/210276.md - Parcel 188478: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/188478.md - Parcel 188566: 2,291 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/188566.md - Parcel 210064: 2,211 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/210064.md - Parcel 215208: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/215208.md - Parcel 193852: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/193852.md - Parcel 160694: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/160694.md - Parcel 3180162: 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3180162.md - Parcel 157830: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/157830.md - Parcel 187470: 2,002 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/187470.md - Parcel 178122: 1,983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/178122.md - Parcel 170433: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/170433.md - Parcel 181097: 1,963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/181097.md - Parcel 169867: 1,947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/169867.md - Parcel 159907: 1,888 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/159907.md - Parcel 136180: 1,876 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/136180.md - Parcel 151329: 1,855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/151329.md - Parcel 186140: 1,841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/186140.md - Parcel 213737: 1,830 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/213737.md - Parcel 179125: 1,800 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/179125.md - Parcel 189808: 1,798 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/189808.md - Parcel 180261: 1,731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/180261.md - Parcel 146965: 1,703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/146965.md - Parcel 195377: 1,668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/195377.md - Parcel 637014: 1,654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/637014.md - Parcel 148808: 1,595 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/148808.md - Parcel 211047: 1,573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/211047.md - Parcel 185526: 1,538 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/185526.md - Parcel 163203: 1,535 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/163203.md - Parcel 136908: 1,530 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/136908.md - Parcel 137427: 1,508 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/137427.md - Parcel 162513: 1,479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/162513.md - Parcel 167869: 1,451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/167869.md - Parcel 166247: 1,449 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/166247.md - Parcel 215864: 1,435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/215864.md - Parcel 167752: 1,433 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/167752.md - Parcel 168051: 1,407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/168051.md - Parcel 5305750: 1,405 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5305750.md - Parcel 173892: 1,402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/173892.md - Parcel 181851: 1,339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/181851.md - Parcel 201668: 1,239 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/201668.md - Parcel 2670112: 1,209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670112.md - Parcel 183952: 1,185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/183952.md - Parcel 212645: 1,051 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/212645.md - Parcel 209622: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/209622.md - Parcel 185253: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/185253.md - Parcel 5257084: 403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5257084.md - Parcel 139727: 166 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/139727.md - Parcel 3778595: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3778595.md - Parcel 5213777: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5213777.md - Parcel 213816: 18 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/213816.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 117 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 17 applications, newest first. - 20 Aug 2025, Meath County Council 2560879: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560879/0 - 1 Aug 2025, Meath County Council 2560803: Conditional. Permission. the development will consist of a metal garden storage shed to the rear of the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560803/0 - 14 Nov 2024, Meath County Council 2460961: Conditional. Permission. development of a new single storey side extension to existing single storey dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460961/0 - 30 Apr 2024, Meath County Council 2460298: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460298/0 - 9 Feb 2024, Meath County Council 2460092: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460092/0 - 16 Sept 2022, Meath County Council 221221: Refused. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221221/0 - 11 Aug 2022, Meath County Council 221052: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221052/0 - 4 Aug 2022, Meath County Council 221020: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221020/0 - 10 Jun 2021, Meath County Council 211120: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211120/0 - 22 Jan 2021, Meath County Council 21114: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21114/0 - 15 Dec 2020, Meath County Council RA201955: Refused. Extension of duration, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA201955/0 - 20 Dec 2018, Meath County Council RA181549: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA181549/0 - 17 Dec 2018, Meath County Council RA181514: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA181514/0 - 11 Dec 2018, Meath County Council RA181479: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA181479/0 - 28 Nov 2018, Meath County Council RA181423: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA181423/0 - 15 Mar 2018, Meath County Council RA180254: N/a. Permission. 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.). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA180254/0 - 15 Sept 2017, Meath County Council RA171076: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/RA171076/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lagore Big. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME038-027: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME038-027----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lagore Big. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/lagore-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/lagore-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/lagore-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymore: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymore.md - Ballymurphy: https://everytownland.com/meath/ballymurphy.md - Dunshaughlin: https://everytownland.com/meath/dunshaughlin.md - Elgarstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/elgarstown.md - Lagore Little: https://everytownland.com/meath/lagore-little.md - Mooretown: https://everytownland.com/meath/mooretown-161150.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/lagore-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/lagore-big