Laghtcausk

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghtcausk, from 247 m² to 278,864 m² (27.89 ha, 68.91 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 Laghtcausk 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.

• 6 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct an extension to the side of an existing single storey domestic dwelling which shall encompass a granny flat. Proposed works shall include connections to all existing site services on site, use of existing vehicular access provided and all other ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21170

• 9 Mar 2021N/a

  to construct a new one off single storey domestic dwelling which will act as a granny flat to the main domestic dwelling on the site with connection to all existing site services, access provided from existing entrance and all ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21126

• 16 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct a new 4 Bay Slatted Cattle Shed to include Cubicle Lying Area, together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1912

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 Laghtcausk.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-074 Field system
  Description

  Visible on aerial photograph (OS: 4/2052), and situated on the N-facing slope of an E-W spur overlooking a W-E stream. A triangular area of c. 2 ha (c. 2.5 acres) contains small fields or paddocks (dims c. 30m x c. 20m) on terraces down to the stream. Concentric enclosure (RO022-075001-) is c. 100m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 44.4m WNW-ESE; 39m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank with some scrub (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) SE-W-NW where it was incorporated into a field bank, now removed beyond the monument, and at NNE (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m), but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-150 Church
  Description

  Identified by J. O'Donovan in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 2, 19), it is situated on the S-facing slope of a drumlin, and is known locally as a church site. An arc (C 20m) of an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) survives N-E, but it is truncated by a NW-SE field bank at SW, with a quarry on the SW side. There is a wall footing (L 4.4m N-S) is inside the bank at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Laghtcausk, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laghtcausk.

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 Laghtcausk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Laghtcausk

Area

1,710,174 m² (171.02 ha, 422.59 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncullaan, Clooncunny, Cloonroughan, Corrabaun, Corracreigh, Drinaun, Drumman, Killynagh Beg

Placenames

Laghtcausk 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.