Larah

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Larah, from 660 m² to 216,256 m² (21.63 ha, 53.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Larah 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.

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  for (1) the erection of a detached steel-framed gym building, and (2) the erection of a detached steel-framed storage shed

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660113

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  to retain (1) revised site boundaries and site layout, (2) diversion to existing water stream and all ancillary site works to previously approved planning ref. 15/71

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18185

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 Larah.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Larah.

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1905, with crown and royal insignia of Edward VII. Moulded perimeter frame enclosing insignia over flap reading 'POST OFFICE' in raised lettering, door below in raised frame having display panel and lock. Foundry name 'W.T. ALLEN & Co. LONDON' in raised lettering at base.

• House, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Arts-and-Crafts L-plan five-bay two-storey house, built 1921, with advanced gable to eastern bays, central entrance with open canopy, gables to side and rear elevations, and single-storey wing extending to northwest. Steeply pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Oversailing eaves and bargeboards with exposed purlins, eaves raised with bell-cast over western bays. Tall brick chimneystacks with corbelled upper sections having ogee decoration. Lean-to canopy slate roof on timber bracket over recessed entrance porch. Roughcast rendered walls to upper floor above platband, smooth-rendered walls to ground floor over raised render plinth. Paired window openings with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Sloping stucco hood moulds to upper floor windows, moulded stucco architraves to ground floor openings. Entrance doorway in moulded architrave having glazed four-pane overlight over glazed timber door with eight panes over three panels. Ground level raised above flight of steps having solid balustrade with convex curving ends. Wrought-iron gates in square-profile rendered piers having quadrant walls terminated by smaller piers.

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 Larah, about 1 in 20 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 Larah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Larah · Leathráth

Area

550,452 m² (55.05 ha, 136.02 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Stradone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

855 people lived in 294 households in the Stradone electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghateemore Glebe, Edergole, Killycrone, Kilnagarbet, Lisatawan, Longfield, Monelty

Placenames

Larah 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.