Lahard

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lahard, from 47 m² to 328,429 m² (32.84 ha, 81.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lahard 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  A) Full Planning Permission for revised design for the permitted extension to the existing dwelling house and conversion of shed to habitable accommodation granted under Planning Reference 24/221 and all associated site works and B) Retention permission to retain the extension to the front elevation as constructed and a new window to the side elevation as constructed

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660120

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  (A) Change of use of part of the ground floor of the existing dwelling house to retail shop (9.0 sq.m floor area), (B) Change of use of part of the ground floor of the existing dwelling house to full off-licence (10.5sq.m floor area) in accordance with plans and particulars submitted

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 25258

• 31 Aug 2025Refused

  Anthony Sweeney, wish to apply to Kerry County Council for RETENTION PERMISSION for works as constructed to my property within revised site boundaries. The works constructed consist of a domestic garage and domestic fuel storage room to the lower floor level and a domestic storage room to the upper floor level all located to the North-East of the application site and as described on the plans and particulars submitted with the application.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560764

• 21 Jul 2025N/a

  KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL: I, Anthony Sweeney, wish to apply to Kerry County Council for RETENTION PERMISSION for works as constructed to my property within revised site boundaries. The works constructed consist of a domestic garage and domestic fuel storage room to the lower floor level and a domestic storage room to the upper floor level all located to the North-East of the application site and as described on the plans and particulars submitted with the application. The application site is located at Lahard, Beaufort, Co. Kerry.

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 2560626

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to (i) Demolish existing dry store (ii) Demolish existing calf house (iii) Construct in its place a new calf/calving house. Proposed calf house to incorporate associated underground soiled water tank & ancillary external concrete .The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560425

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  (A) RETAIN EXISTING SHED A AS-CONSTRUCTED AT THE EAST SIDE OF THE PROPOSED SITE, (B) PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH APPROX. 29 LIN.M OF THE EXISTING YARD WALL AND SECURITY FENCING, (C) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW STORAGE SHED TO COVER THE EXISTING STORAGE YARD (FLOOR AREA 130 SQ.M) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Retention, 2 homes · Kerry County Council, 24450

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONVERSION OF SHED TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION, (2) RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED AS CONSTRUCTED (3) PERMISSION TO INSTALL A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT INCLUDING MECHANICAL AERATION UNIT AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 24221

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL: I, Anthony Sweeney, wish to apply to Kerry County Council for RETENTION PERMISSION for works as constructed to my property within revised site boundaries. The works constructed consist of a retaining wall and concrete hardstand located to the North-East of the application site. Furthermore, PLANNING PERMISSION is sought to carry out the construction of a domestic garage and domestic fuel storage shed also located to the North-East of the application site and as described on the plans and particulars submitted with the application.. The application site is located at Lahard, Beaufort, Co. Kerry.

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460177

• 5 Mar 2024N/a

  KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL: Invalid: I, Anthony Sweeney, wish to apply to Kerry County Council for retention permission of works as constructed to my property. The works constructed consist of a retaining wall and concrete hardstand located to the North-East of the application site. Furthermore, planning permission is sought to carry out the construction of a domestic garage and domestic fuel storage shed also located to the North-East of the application site and as described on the plans and particulars submitted with the application. The application is within revised site boundaries. The application site is located at Lahard, Beaufort, Co. Kerry.

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460129

• 17 Nov 2022Conditional

  (A) DEMOLISH THE EXISTING PORCH AND BUILD A NEW PORCH TO FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE, (B) ERECT NEW EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS, (C) RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED THE EXISTING SHED/GARAGE FOR PRIVATE USE. (D) MODIFY, ALTER AND EXTEND THE EXISTING GARAGE INCORPORATING WITHIN THE SAME TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 221189

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  RETAIN A SINGLE UNIT DOMESTIC GRANNY FLAT AS CONSTRUCTED. THE GRANNY FLAT IS ADJOINED AND POSITIONED TO THE EAST END OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. RETENTION PERMISSION IS FURTHER SOUGHT FOR ELEVATIONAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS PER PLANS AND PARTICULARS SUBMITTED

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21329

• 18 Oct 2019N/a

  RETAIN WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 191081

• 3 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 3 NO. GLAMPING PODS, AN ONSITE PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT TO SERVE SAME ALONG WITH ANCILLRY SITE WORKS INCLUDING RELOCATED ENTRANCE

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 19344

• 21 Sept 2017Conditional

  ALTER, RENOVATE AND EXTEND AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17934

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: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE057-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A circular area (diam. 34m) defined by two earthen banks, an intervening fosse and the remains of an outer fosse. The inner bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.95m) slopes gently down to the interior. The intervening fosse (Wth 3m) is flat bottomed and is waterlogged N-S. The outer bank (Wth 3.1m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.35m) survives NE-N with the NE arc truncated by a linear road boundary. The outer bank along the NW arc has been incorporated into the field boundary system. There is a causeway entrance through the inner (Wth 2m) and outer (Wth 3m) banks at SW. Stone facing on the NW side of this entrance, in the outer bank, continues along the internal face of the bank for a couple of metres. An outer fosse (Wth 0.8m; D 0.5m) is visible S-SSW. The interior, in which reeds grow, is concave. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE057-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low rise, on an E-facing slope. The remains of the possible rath are visible as a low intermittent rise defining a circular area (diam. c. 38m) abutting a field boundary on the NE side. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) with an E-W field boundary crossing the N portion of the interior. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE065-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on level ground, c. 100m to the N of the River Laune. This rath is not visible at ground level. According to local information, it was levelled in the 1970s. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and as a roughly circular enclosure on the 1894 OS 6-inch map, where it is depicted similarly to the surrounding field boundaries. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE065-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope, overlooking the valley of the River Laune. A circular area (diam. c. 36m) defined by a low rise. This rath is indicated on the 1895 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m). According to local information, this was a bivallate rath with two substantial banks and a deep intervening fosse and it was levelled in the 1970s. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE065-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, on the edge of a S-facing slope with impressive views S to Macgillycuddy's Reeks. A circular area (35m E-W) defined by a partially eroded earthen bank (Wth 8.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) ENE-WNW and by a low rise WNW-NW. The bank is obscured by overgrowth along the S arc. An overgrown E-W earthen field boundary crosses the interior to the N of the centre. This may be the 'circular fort', recorded in the 1940s on Mr Sugrue's lands at Lahard and which had 'one bank, and [was] 100ft [30.48m] in diameter' (ITA). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE065-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. This possible rath is not visible at ground level though a low rise (diam. c. 35m) is visible in the vicinity. It was indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). This may be one of two raths (see KE065-018----) mentioned in the 1940s as being in the same field and 'about 200 yards [183m] apart' in Kelly's farm (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). One rath was described as being 'very big' with 'two earthen circular rings' and the other was a 'single ring fort' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE065-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with a curving field boundary, which may be the remains of an outer bank, respecting it S-NW. This may be one of two raths (see KE065-017----) mentioned in the 1940s as being in the same field and 'about 200 yards [183m] apart' in Kelly's farm (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). One rath was described as being 'very big' with 'two earthen circular rings' and the other was a 'single ring fort' (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

• KE065-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope, immediately N of the Killarney-Killorglin road (T67) and overlooking the valley of the Laune River. The rath is indicated on the 1846 and 1895 OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) abutted by the road. Only the N half of the rath remains and consists of an arc (C 42m) of a low rise (Wth 4.45m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.8m) W-E. The interior slopes down to the S. Road widening in 1994, resulted in the excavation of the S half of the rath and provided evidence that it may have been bivallate (Connolly 1995, 45-6). The excavation revealed that the inner bank 'was constructed using a stone core which was then covered with earth' and that it contained a subcircular round-bottomed pit (0.58m x 0.6m; D 0.2m), filled with charcoal, burnt soil, iron slag and fused stone, at a depth of 0.4m from the top (ibid., 46). A partially infilled flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 1.9m; max. D 2.2m) was also found and an earthen boundary (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.15m), with a stone core, located between the road and the rath was identified as a possible outer bank (ibid., 45). No habitation layer was found within the interior and the only finds were modern pottery and one fragment of a clay pipe (Connolly 1995, 46). Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Lahard, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_155 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Lahard, Beaufort5 sales

Name

Lahard · An Leathard

Area

2,881,130 m² (288.11 ha, 711.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Lahard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

741 people lived in 263 households in the Lahard electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahane, Beaufort, Boulanimrish, Carhoobeg, Coolmagort, Culleeny Beg, Culleeny More, Cullenagh Lower, Drombrick, Gneeves, Grenagh, Pallis

Placenames

Lahard 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.