Altachullion Lower

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altachullion Lower, from 77 m² to 243,287 m² (24.33 ha, 60.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Altachullion Lower 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 Altachullion Lower 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands SAC 000584
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackrock's Cross 000976
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands 000584

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Altachullion Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1850, spanning a watercourse. Squared ashlar abutments extending forward to form retaining walls to road embankment terminating as battered buttresses rising to base of parapet. Semi-circular arch barrel having arch ring of even punched ashlar voussoirs. Squared rubble spandrel between buttresses. Stepped rubble stone retaining wall parallel to road adjoinung south-west buttress. Concrete parapet to south, concrete block parapet to north.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Altachullion Lower.

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.

No address of the register names Altachullion Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Altachullion Lower · Alt an Chuilinn Íochtarach

Area

1,121,142 m² (112.11 ha, 277.04 acres)

Civil parish

Templeport, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Pedara Vohers, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnacollia, Altachullion Upper, Altbrean, Altinure, Legnaderk

Placenames

Altachullion Lower 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.