Altbrean

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altbrean, from 77,999 m² (7.8 ha, 19.27 acres) to 350,627 m² (35.06 ha, 86.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Altbrean 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.

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  to erect fully serviced part 1 1/2 storey/part single storey extension to the side and rear of an existing single storey cottage, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22235

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  for change of use from existing dwelling house to café, to erect single storey extension to café, alterations to site, including car park and upgrading of site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18552

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: Cuilcagh - Anierin Uplands 000584

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Altbrean.

Architectural heritage

• Commas Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch sandstone bridge, built c.1860, over Claddagh River. Rock faced snecked sandstone abutments on roughly cut stone footing. Wide segmental-arch with squared and coursed soffit, arch ring of regular rock-faced voussoirs with dressed arris to arch. Rock-faced spandrel walls of squared snecked stone. Rock-faced blocks of unequal lengths to parapet copings. Splayed and rounded retaining walls to adjoining embankment.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Altbrean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Altbrean

Area

1,338,955 m² (133.9 ha, 330.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kinawley, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Kinawley, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinawley electoral division: 111 people in 42 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnacollia, Altachullion Lower, Altinure, Commas, Gubrawully, Sralahan, Tullydermot

Placenames

Altbrean 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.