Ashgrove

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashgrove, from 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) to 120,016 m² (12 ha, 29.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Ashgrove 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.

• 30 Dec 2019Conditional

  to erect single storey extension to side of existing dwelling, alterations to associated elevations, upgrade of sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19528

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: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV015-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as a small circular enclosure on OS 1876 ed. Not marked on OS 1836 ed. Situated in wet low-lying ground falling WNW to a stream. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV015-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 34.5m) enclosed by a much-denuded low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse identifiable in its original form only from WNW-N-NNE. Elsewhere it has been largely infilled or replaced by modern field boundaries. Break in bank at SSW probably represents original entrance. Internal area densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV015-006001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The current house at Ashgrove is an 18th-century structure. However, Davies (1948a, 113) recorded that this house stands on massive foundations and vaults, which he believed, belonged to an earlier 17th-century castle. In addition, he identified portion of what may have been the former bawn wall at S (T c. 0.6m), 'built with a row of arched recesses flanked by engaged masonry-columns', W of the house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV015-006002 Bawn
  Description

  The current house at Ashgrove is an 18th-century structure. However, Davies (1948a, 113) recorded that this house stands on massive foundations and vaults, which he believed, belonged to an earlier 17th-century castle. In addition, he identified portion of what may have been the former bawn wall at S (T c. 0.6m), 'built with a row of arched recesses flanked by engaged masonry-columns', W of the house. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 13 April, 2016

• CV015-007 Crannog
  Description

  Small roughly circular island (diam. c. 25m) in the Erne River, c. 25m from the shoreline. Marked on all OS eds. Davies (1942, 19; NMI Survey 1941) described a flat-topped mound (dims, of summit 8.8m x 6m; H 2.4m) composed of whitish clay and stones, surrounded by a few piles. Some charcoal, scraps of burnt bone and old bricks were noted on the summit of the mound. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Ashgrove House, country house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Palladian three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1760, with recent extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof, large chimneystacks flanking centre bay, uPVC rainwater goods. Recent wet-dash rendered walls with raised smooth plinth, corbel course below eaves. Square-headed window opening with stone sills to outer bays graduated in height from ground to first floor. Venetian window to centre bay at first floor. Blind Venetian windows to first floor side elevations. uPVC windows. Round-headed Gibbsian door surround with semi-circular fanlight over raised and fielded timber panelled door, having flanking side lights under profiled impost course. Sandstone threshold leading to sandstone platfrom having steps on three sides with flanking bootscrapers. Detached single-storey rubble-stone outbuildings with slate and corrugated metal roofs concealed from approach by a screen wall with blind arcade separated by circular-profile piers. Screen wall with stone voussoir arches visible from courtyard side. Entrance flanked by hexagonal-profile sandstone ashlar piers with copings and spherical finials. Wrought-iron pedestrian gates to both sides flanked by lower corresponding piers and rubble stone concave wing-walls with cut stone copings. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge having steep hipped slate roof with decorative clay ridge tiles, rubble-stone walls with brick dressings, brick relieving arches and timber lintels, asymmetrical arrangement of windows and entrance door, set opposite entrance.

• Baker's Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch sandstone bridge, built c.1860, over Erne River. Piers of rock-faced-blocks in varying course heights. Bullnose piers with rounded heads on both elevations, with wide concrete bullnosed bases. Wide equal segmental-arched spans, arch soffit of coursed stone. Rock-faced spandrels and parapet above arch rings of regular voussoirs. Heavily rusticated rock-faced coping to parapet with vertical ends, parapets follow curves of approach roads.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ashgrove · Doire Chruinnill

Area

1,079,447 m² (107.94 ha, 266.74 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlane, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Carrafin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrafin electoral division: 439 people in 147 households; 89% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardan, Bessbrook, Drummany (Pleydell), Portlawney, Rivory, Stroane

Placenames

Ashgrove 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.