# Ashgrove, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan; in Irish Doire Chruinnill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,079,447 m² (107.94 ha, 266.74 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,549 m² (1.45 ha, 3.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumlane, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/drumlane.md - Barony: Loughtee Lower - Electoral division: Carrafin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 439 people lived in 147 households in the Carrafin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4549 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20114 - Centre: latitude 54.062757, longitude -7.429386 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 434442: 120,016 m² (12 ha, 29.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434442.md - Parcel 443535: 85,653 m² (8.57 ha, 21.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443535.md - Parcel 475184: 75,357 m² (7.54 ha, 18.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475184.md - Parcel 469647: 14,549 m² (1.45 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469647.md - Parcel 433793: 7,743 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433793.md - Parcel 4851930: 5,211 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4851930.md - Parcel 5656333: 3,739 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5656333.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 30 Dec 2019, Cavan County Council 19528: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect single storey extension to side of existing dwelling, alterations to associated elevations, upgrade of sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19528/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, site code 000007, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000007 - Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA, site code 004049, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004049 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs, site code 000007 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV015-004: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV015-004----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV015-005----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV015-006001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV015-006002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV015-007----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ashgrove House, country house, 1750–1770, Regional interest, registry number 40401513, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40401513. 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, registry number 40401514, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40401514. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ashgrove, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ashgrove.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ashgrove.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ashgrove.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ashgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ardan.md - Bessbrook: https://everytownland.com/cavan/bessbrook.md - Drummany (Pleydell): https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummany-pleydell.md - Portlawney: https://everytownland.com/cavan/portlawney.md - Rivory: https://everytownland.com/cavan/rivory.md - Stroane: https://everytownland.com/cavan/stroane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ashgrove - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/ashgrove