Laragh
Townland in the civil parish of Mullinacuff, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 190.5 ha
- 471 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,388 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laragh, from 145 m² to 1,000,386 m² (100.04 ha, 247.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Laragh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jul 2022Conditional
to construct a two storey extension (area of proposed extension 129.34sqm) to the side of existing dwelling (area of existing dwelling house 88.5sqm) along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22734
20 Aug 2021N/a
construct a two storey extension (area of proposed extension 129.34sq.m) to the side of existing dwelling house (area of existing dwelling house: 88.5sq.m) along with all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211036
29 Jan 2019Conditional
construction of 3 no new entrances with access roads, 1 no new back in type loading bay and upgrading of existing entrance to create a back in type loading bay to lands, for use by forestry and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1985
11 Dec 2018N/a
3 no entrances with access roads, 1 no new back in type loading bay and upgrading of existing entrance to create a back in type loading bay to our lands for use by forestry and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181381
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Laragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Laragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Laragh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laragh.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Laragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Laragh
- Area
- 1,905,467 m² (190.55 ha, 470.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mullinacuff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Cronelea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cronelea electoral division: 181 people in 70 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymarroge, Cronelea, Kilquiggin, Knockatomcoyle, Seskin, Stranakelly
- Placenames
- Laragh 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.