Laughil

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laughil, from 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 408,375 m² (40.84 ha, 100.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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.

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  (1) DEMOLISH EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING HOUSE AND REAR SHED, AND REPLACE WITH A NEW DWELLING HOUSE FOR OUR OWN OCCUPATION. (2) UPGRADE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA. (3) RELOCATE THE MAIN VEHICLE ACCESS GATEWAY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING, TO A LOCATION SOUTH OF THE EXITING VEHICLE ACCESS, WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDS, AND RETAIN THE EXITING GATED ACCESS FOR PEDESTRIAN ACCESS ONLY, AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17247

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

• OF031-038 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture on low-lying land. Square shaped area (38.5m N-S; 37.7m E-W ) enclosed by two earthen banks separated by an intervening fosse (Wth 5m) with possible entrance feature at W, however this may be modern fill. Inner bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 3m); poorly preserved outer bank is levelled at W. The site has an overall diameter 54m N-S by 52m E-W. Foundations of a circular tower in SW corner of site may be the site of a lime kiln or possible corner turret of fortified moated site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF031-042 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Natural hollow depression in area marked on OS 6-inch map, may be a geological feature only. Aerial photographs (Air Corps 716/717) shows outline of possible circular enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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 moderately low, 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. Offaly.

Name

Laughil · An Leathchoill

Area

754,851 m² (75.49 ha, 186.53 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Eglish

Electoral division

Drumcullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghmore and Annaghbeg, Ballymaddock, Ballyroe, Curragh Upper, Kiltubbrid Island, Money

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.