Artonagh
Artonagh is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan. Its name in Irish is Ard-tonnach.
- Area
- 42.7 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 11,977 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Artonagh, from 4,090 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) to 411,034 m² (41.1 ha, 101.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Artonagh 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
23 Sept 2025Conditional
to extend existing farm complex which consists of the following (a) detached 5 bay Agricultural slatted shed with underground tank (b) 5 bay extension to existing Agricultural slatted shed with underground tank approved under planning reference 18/121 (c) alter entrance gate, provide concrete aprons and associated site works. A Natura impact statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560565
3 Jul 2024Refused
to construct agricultural storage shed, concrete apron and associated site works together with Retention Permission for existing entrance and laneway
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460301
23 Mar 2018Conditional
construct slatted house with underground slurry storage tanks, extend existing slatted house to include an additional 3 no. bay underground slurry storage tank and shed above to match existing shed and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application
Permission · Cavan County Council, 18121
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 Artonagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Artonagh.
Architectural heritage
- Griffith Lodge, house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1750, with Gibbsian doorcase in canted central bay, single-storey addition to north-west gable, single-storey lean-to along rear elevation. Now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with hipped section over central projection, replacement brick chimneys to gables and uPVC rainwater goods. Replacement wet-dash cement render with raised quoins and smooth plinth. Graduated window openings with enlarged openings to ground floor, narrower windows to sides of central projection, all having stone sills and replacement aluminium windows. Internal flat-panelled timber shutters to front windows. Round-headed entrance with stone Gibbsian surround comprising blocked architrave with archivolt and flat keystone, replacement panelled door and fanlight, opening to stone steps around three sides. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to rear yard with pitched slate roofs, rendered rubble stone walls, timber lintels above sash windows and timber sheeted doors. Outbuildings to the south with barrel corrugated-iron roof, rubble-stone walls, square openings and arched openings with stone voussoirs. Square-profile stone piers and replacement metal gates to entrance.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Artonagh, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Artonagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Artonagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Artonagh · Ard-tonnach
- Area
- 427,245 m² (42.72 ha, 105.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Lower
- Electoral division
- Milltown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 404 people lived in 148 households in the Milltown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creeny, Drumgesh, Drumlane, Drummany Glebe, Drumnoose, Tonyarraher
- Placenames
- Artonagh 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.