Laralae

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laralae, from 850 m² to 232,597 m² (23.26 ha, 57.48 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 Laralae 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 Laralae 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 Laralae.

Recorded monuments

• MA082-026001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a NE-facing slope, providing good views to NE–SE. This rath is not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1916 edition as a subcircular hachured enclosure. Slightly raised, broadly oval area (47.4m E–W; 52.3m N–S) defined by a bank of earth and stone, outside which it is enclosed by a fosse, with remnants of an external bank surviving at NW–NE. The inner bank (Wth 5.5-6m; int. 0.55m at NNE, 0.9m at SSW; ext. H 1.75m at NNE, 1.2m at SSW) incorporates stones in parts, which may be remnants of stone facing, perhaps the result of being subsumed into relatively recent field walls. The fosse (Wth 3m) is evident as a shallow depression on the W half of the circuit, changing at N–E to a low terrace, and petering out SE. The external bank (Wth c. 2-3m; ext. H 0.4m) survives as a low sod-covered rise. The original entrance is likely to have been at ESE where there is a gap (Wth c. 2m) in the inner bank. The W half of the interior is fairly level, but there is an E-W spine of raised ground in the centre, with a gentle slope down to NE and SE. A shallow, stony depression (5.3m E–W; 2.2m N–S) in the raised spine may indicate the location of a souterrain (MA082-026002-). A square, stone-built structure (3m N–S; 3m E–W; H 1m), most likely a ruined vernacular shed, is built into the external face of the inner bank at S and partly overlies the fosse. The rath interior is grassy; hawthorn and blackthorn bushes and brambles growing on the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2021

• MA082-026002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a rath (MA082-026001-). According to local information, this souterrain was closed up in modern era; it consists of a short, stone-lined entrance leading into a chamber (c. 1.8m x 1.8m; c. 1.2m high), with an opening off the chamber to another, blocked passage. A shallow, stony depression (5.3m E–W; 2.2m N–S) in a spine of raised ground that extends E–W through the centre of the rath may indicate the location of the souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

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 Laralae with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Laralae · Lár an Lae

Area

585,881 m² (58.59 ha, 144.77 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

650 people lived in 241 households in the Aghamore electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn More, Cashels, Cornageaghta, Mountaincommon, Scregg

Placenames

Laralae 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.