Bleancup
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan; in Irish Bléin Chupa
- Area
- 48.6 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 3,134 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bleancup, from 73 m² to 88,785 m² (8.88 ha, 21.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Bleancup 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
31 Mar 2022Conditional
to retain change of use from previously approved holiday home to permanent dwelling and all associated works
Retention · Cavan County Council, 22127
1 Dec 2021Conditional
to retain change of use from previously approved holiday home to permanent dwelling and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21723
24 Feb 2021Conditional
retain existing detached domestic garage, also permission sought to upgrade existing sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21101
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
- 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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bleancup.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bleancup.
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 10 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 Bleancup.
- 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 Bleancup with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Bleancup · Bléin Chupa
- Area
- 485,658 m² (48.57 ha, 120.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Crossdoney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corratober, Drumcor, Drummurry, Gartbrattan, Togher or Danesfort Demesne
- Placenames
- Bleancup 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.