# Blackstep, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockbride, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan; in Irish An Choiscéim Dhubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 764,368 m² (76.44 ha, 188.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,148 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockbride, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/knockbride.md - Barony: Clankee - Electoral division: Skeagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Skeagh electoral division: 445 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3829 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20180 - Centre: latitude 53.965171, longitude -7.032749 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackstep, from 407 m² to 145,796 m² (14.58 ha, 36.03 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 445839: 145,796 m² (14.58 ha, 36.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445839.md - Parcel 445840: 134,949 m² (13.49 ha, 33.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445840.md - Parcel 468692: 89,877 m² (8.99 ha, 22.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468692.md - Parcel 468631: 70,134 m² (7.01 ha, 17.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468631.md - Parcel 452446: 63,305 m² (6.33 ha, 15.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/452446.md - Parcel 459216: 56,151 m² (5.62 ha, 13.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459216.md - Parcel 434763: 50,729 m² (5.07 ha, 12.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434763.md - Parcel 433151: 42,809 m² (4.28 ha, 10.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433151.md - Parcel 5130726: 30,808 m² (3.08 ha, 7.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130726.md - Parcel 2454713: 6,148 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2454713.md - Parcel 438374: 5,644 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438374.md - Parcel 487671: 4,477 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487671.md - Parcel 441805: 3,840 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/441805.md - Parcel 447757: 1,526 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/447757.md - Parcel 455192: 1,423 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/455192.md - Parcel 463027: 1,329 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/463027.md - Parcel 2580532: 1,055 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2580532.md - Parcel 446350: 1,031 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/446350.md - Parcel 445183: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/445183.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blackstep 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 10 Apr 2024, Cavan County Council 2460142: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new single storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works Significant Further Information has been received. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460142/0 - 22 Mar 2023, Cavan County Council 23120: Conditional. Permission. to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23120/0 - 24 Feb 2023, Cavan County Council 2361: N/a. Permission. to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361/0 - 2 Dec 2022, Cavan County Council 22487: Conditional. Permission. to construct a roofed covered yard area with underground storage tank, a calf shed with underground storage tank and a machinery shed and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22487/0 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 Blackstep. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackstep. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackstep. ## 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 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 Blackstep. - 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/blackstep.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/blackstep.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/blackstep.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blackstep 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) - Cornaveagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cornaveagh.md - Drumbar: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbar-20805.md - Enagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/enagh-21074.md - Seeoran: https://everytownland.com/cavan/seeoran.md - Tullylorcan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tullylorcan.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/blackstep - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/blackstep