Laragh

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laragh, from 14 m² to 149,751 m² (14.98 ha, 37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Laragh 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.

• 4 Jan 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing two storey detached dwelling, construct an entrance porch and all associated site works. Significant further information received includes revised site layout plan and site location map.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 221

• 8 Nov 2021N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing two storey detached dwelling, construct an entrance porch and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21621

• 29 Sept 2021N/a

  permission to retain an agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21547

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and site works (including new/upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant further information relates to an EIAR addendum.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21302

• 4 Feb 2021Conditional

  permission for attic conversion to storage area to include new windows to both gables also retention permission for location of boundaries, dwelling, garage and waste water treatment system on site. Previous planning reference 07/1740

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2144

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission to demolish existing single storey dwelling and outbuildings and replace with a two storey style dwelling, domestic garage, upgrade existing septic tank to a sewerage treatment unit & percolation area and use existing entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20582

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and percolation area, new gated domestic entrance and include all associated site works. Significant further information relates to amendment to site boundary.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19294

• 6 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission to retain and complete attic conversion with elevational changes currently under construction (previous planning reference 16/544)

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18245

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a new two storey dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17624

• 17 May 2017Conditional

  Permission will consist of a single storey dwelling, attached garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated site works off new entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17232

• 8 Mar 2017Refused

  Permission to construct a new 2 storey dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17107

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 Laragh.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 26.4m NNW-SSE; 26.4m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of bank 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with some bushes , and an outer fosse (at ENE: Wth of top 2.4m; Wth of base 1.7m; int. D 2.3m; ext. D 0.4m) N-SE. There is an entrance gap at SE that has been widened (Wth of base 3.4m) but which is probably original. A NNW-SSE field bank that was just to the W has been removed since 1995 (OSAP). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

• MO028-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.4m WNW-ESE; c. 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at WNW: Wth 7m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.6m) and a slight fosse (at WNW: Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.3m) that survive SE-W-NE. The perimeter is reduced to a grass-covered scarp (at ESE: H c. 4m) NE-SSE (L c. 25m) that merges into the natural slope. The original entrance is not identified but it may have been in the E sector. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Kiln, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan limestone lime kiln having buttressed corners and two flues with fire openings, built c.1850, built into a bank to rear (south), now defunct. Rubble stone walls, dressed and snecked stone to buttresses. Round arches to both fire openings,with red brick voussoirs and soffits. Exposed rock face below rubble stone wall to rear west side. Set back from road. Detached single-bay single-storey ancillary building to west of kiln, dated 1862, having pitched slate roof, roughly dressed stone walls, rendered walls to central recess to north elevation. Rubble stone boundary walls and pier, one recent rendered pier and recent gate.

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 Laragh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Laragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Laragh · An Láithreach

Area

631,794 m² (63.18 ha, 156.12 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Bocks, the unit of the census

Census 2022

779 people lived in 246 households in the Bocks electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annahaia, Corlea, Corleck, Cormoy, Donaghmoyne, Lisgall

Placenames

Laragh 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.