Laughil

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laughil, from 614 m² to 72,489 m² (7.25 ha, 17.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Laughil in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• RO007-077 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on level ground with rock-outcrop. It is not visible at ground level, and the site is now occupied by a farmhouse and yard. It may have been a cashel. Rath (RO007-078----) is c. 140m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO007-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll in a flat, low-lying landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area with trees on the perimeter S-W-N (dims 22m N-S; 19m E-W), which has an uneven interior defined by a scarp (H 1.1-1.3m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. Ringfort (RO007-077----) is c. 140m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO007-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a slight hollow. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 24m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) defined by a shallow fosse that is best preserved (at NE: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 1.5m; int. D 0.2m; ext. D 0.1m) NE-S-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance. It is overlain by a NE-SW field bank and barely traceable NW of this feature. The fosse is slightly curtailed by a NW-SE field bank at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28 July, 2016

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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1438 (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 Laughil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Laughil

Area

391,111 m² (39.11 ha, 96.65 acres)

Civil parish

Tumna, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Tumna South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

207 people lived in 89 households in the Tumna South electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleaheen, Drumsillagh, Kilmacarril

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.