Laughil

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laughil, from 50 m² to 202,381 m² (20.24 ha, 50.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 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.

• 30 Dec 2021Conditional

  Permission is sought for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. A Natura impact statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 239 sqm, G: 23.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212547

• 19 Oct 2021Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. A natura impact statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works:239 sqm (house) & 23 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211934

• 1 Apr 2021Refused

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 239 sqm, Garage: 23.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21508

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 247 sqm (house) 40 sqm (garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18305

• 8 Jun 2017N/a

  for the construction of a new 2 storey dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 279sqm including garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17813

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA128-061 Standing stone
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in an area of pastureland and outcropping rock. This standing stone is now recumbent. It consists of a large prostrate undressed subrectangular stone (L c. 1.9m) which tapers towards the S end It is partially covered by a small cairn of field-clearance boulders. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2019

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

At the centre of the townland of Laughil, about 1 in 5 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laughil.

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.

No address of the register names Laughil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Laughil · An Leathchoill

Area

1,408,510 m² (140.85 ha, 348.05 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ardamullivan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

722 people lived in 245 households in the Ardamullivan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardamullivan, Carheeny Beg, Derrycallan North, Gilroe, Killeen

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.