# Birragh, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Enniskeen, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 691,153 m² (69.12 ha, 170.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,375 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Enniskeen, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/enniskeen.md - Barony: Clankee - Electoral division: Enniskeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Enniskeen electoral division: 482 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3711 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20177 - Centre: latitude 53.887758, longitude -6.849872 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birragh, from 557 m² to 135,616 m² (13.56 ha, 33.51 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 446694: 135,616 m² (13.56 ha, 33.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/446694.md - Parcel 474077: 113,083 m² (11.31 ha, 27.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474077.md - Parcel 459009: 89,731 m² (8.97 ha, 22.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459009.md - Parcel 473915: 63,519 m² (6.35 ha, 15.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473915.md - Parcel 2532424: 40,552 m² (4.06 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2532424.md - Parcel 468877: 38,633 m² (3.86 ha, 9.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468877.md - Parcel 476492: 27,783 m² (2.78 ha, 6.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476492.md - Parcel 490106: 27,507 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490106.md - Parcel 450660: 25,898 m² (2.59 ha, 6.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450660.md - Parcel 450553: 24,825 m² (2.48 ha, 6.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450553.md - Parcel 483039: 19,596 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483039.md - Parcel 486052: 12,343 m² (1.23 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486052.md - Parcel 443829: 11,739 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443829.md - Parcel 476766: 9,297 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476766.md - Parcel 436115: 9,205 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436115.md - Parcel 487885: 5,545 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487885.md - Parcel 491656: 4,389 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/491656.md - Parcel 448819: 3,444 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448819.md - Parcel 492471: 3,262 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/492471.md - Parcel 2392799: 3,058 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392799.md - Parcel 3293917: 2,972 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3293917.md - Parcel 2555258: 2,192 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2555258.md - Parcel 471105: 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/471105.md - Parcel 477474: 1,898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/477474.md - Parcel 441933: 1,788 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/441933.md - Parcel 454650: 1,151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/454650.md - Parcel 491347: 1,147 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/491347.md - Parcel 479316: 1,066 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/479316.md - Parcel 481274: 855 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/481274.md - Parcel 3293921: 557 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3293921.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 13 Apr 2022, Cavan County Council 22147: N/a. Permission. for change of use of detached garage to pre-school facility with alterations to elevations, provision of play area, carparking, connection to existing services and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22147/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Birragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV035-003: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV035-003----. Raised circular area (int. diam c. 35m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a shallow fosse. Original entrance at SE. 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 - CV035-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV035-004----. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by an earthen bank, the exterior of which has been faced with stone and incorporated into the field boundary. It is poorly preserved from ESE-S-SW. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Birragh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Birragh. - 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/birragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/birragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/birragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Birragh 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) - Balloughly: https://everytownland.com/cavan/balloughly.md - Corraneary: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corraneary-20559.md - Ervey (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/ervey.md - Mullanacross: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullanacross.md - Tullyweel (Co. Meath): https://everytownland.com/meath/tullyweel.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/birragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/birragh