Larah

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Larah, from 55 m² to 315,325 m² (31.53 ha, 77.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

• R2Existing / Infill Residential (Existing residential)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Ballon Small Town Plan, Carlow · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space and Amenity (Open space, park)
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Ballon Small Town Plan, Carlow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Carlow County Development Plan 2022 - 2028 Ballon Small Town Plan, Carlow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 27 Jun 2026Refused

  change of use of the existing nursing home to a single dwelling house

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660198

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  for the demolition of existing house and permission for the construction of a dwelling house, entrance, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area/polishing filter and site works and associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19272

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  retention permission is sought for alterations and extensions to an existing two storey dwelling as constructed as follows: increase of height of original pitched roof to structure, removal of original single storey extension to rear and its replacement with a two storey extension comprising new kitchen, bathroom, utility/lobby to ground floor, additional 2 no. bedrooms and bathroom to first floor, associated roof lights and windows to same with finishes to match original house and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18426

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with garage, septic tank, percolatation area, site entrance, bored well and all other associatated site works in lieu of permission previously granted (planning No. 16/58)

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1719

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

• CW013-116 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.13) shows cropmark of a single ring-ditch. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• CW013-117 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AH.13) shows cropmark of an irregular curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse with adjacent linear fosses forming an outer incomplete rectilinear enclosure. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• CW017-064 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A concentric enclosure identified as a cropmark by Faith Bailey and Simon Dowling on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, imagery date 14 July 2018). It consists of an inner, somewhat irregular enclosure (dims. c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W) and an outer roughly oval enclosure (dims. c. 85m N-S; c. 76m E-W). The space or berm between the two enclosures varies from 15m up to 23m. See attached image: CW017-064----_01 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus CW017-064----_02 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus with enclosure highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2664 (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.

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

Name

Larah · An Láithreach

Area

1,238,458 m² (123.85 ha, 306.03 acres)

Civil parish

Ballon, and its townlands

Barony

Forth

Electoral division

Ballon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

788 people lived in 251 households in the Ballon electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvally, Ballon, Ballyleen, Ballylower, Cappagh, Craanpursheen, Kilmurry

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.