Beaghy
Townland in the civil parish of Lavey, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 183.3 ha
- 453 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 4,126 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beaghy, from 56 m² to 141,454 m² (14.15 ha, 34.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Beaghy 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
9 Sept 2026N/a
for (1) Demolition of existing walled silage pit, (2) Construct of an agricultural slatted shed to incorporate slatted areas, cubicle accommodation, feed and link passages and underground slurry storage tanks, (3) Complete all ancillary site works and associated site structures
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660516
7 Nov 2023Conditional
to change house type of previously approved dwelling under planning reference 20494 with associated changes to site layout and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360261
11 Oct 2023N/a
to change house type of previously approved dwelling under planning reference 20494 with associated changes to site layout and all ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360225
10 Feb 2023Conditional
to demolish existing silage pit and farm shed and construct new: 1. Slatted house building, 2. Double Silage Pit Slab, Dung stead enclosure, and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2341
25 Jan 2023N/a
to construct the following farm structures: 1. Slatted house building, 2. Double silage pit slab, 3. Dung stead enclosure, and carry out associated works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2321
11 Nov 2020Conditional
to erect fully serviced storey and a half/two storey type dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, well, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20494
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 Beaghy.
Recorded monuments
- CV026-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised subcircular area (int. diam. c. 22.4m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse which although infilled is nonetheless identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beaghy.
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
- 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Beaghy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Beaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Beaghy
- Area
- 1,832,731 m² (183.27 ha, 452.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lavey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Stradone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stradone electoral division: 855 people in 294 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadreenagh, Corfad, Corragho, Drumgora, Drumhirk, Knockanoark, Mullymagowan
- Placenames
- Beaghy 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.