Bocade Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 109.1 ha
- 270 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 35,926 m² (3.59 ha, 8.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bocade Glebe, from 1,798 m² to 304,687 m² (30.47 ha, 75.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Bocade Glebe 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
12 May 2025Conditional
for a ten-year planning permission for a solar energy development comprising photovoltaic solar panels on mounting frames; electrical control building and MV power station; underground electrical and communications cabling; access tracks; security fencing; pole-mounted security cameras; and all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560231
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 Bocade Glebe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bocade Glebe.
Architectural heritage
- School, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey former school, built c.1800, renovated 1861, and extensively refurbished c.1995, now in use as house. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, altered brick chimneystack off centre in ridge, and uPVC rainwater goods. Random rubble-stone walls laid to courses. Inset stone plaque with moulded frame within droved ashlar surround and sill to first floor, with incised inscription reading 'THIS SCHOOL HOUSE / FALLEN INTO DECAY IS RENEWED / AND DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF / LADY CATHERINE SAUNDERSON / BY MANY WITNESSES OF HER SEDULUOS / AND DILIGENT TEACHING WITHIN IT / OF THE WORKS OF GOD FOR 32 YEARS / 1861'. Brick elliptical arches to openings. Semi-circular opening to north-west gable. Replacement fittings and recast concrete sills to openings.
- Kildallan Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Classical Regency style L-plan three-bay two-storey over basement former glebe house, built 1821, with canted northern bay having Wyatt windows, four-bay side elevation, single-storey lean-to section to rear. Later in use as private house, now disused. Shallow hipped slate roof with internal valley, ashlar chimneystack with clay pots to north, rendered chimneystack to south, oversailing eaves with timber soffit supported on paired timber modillion brackets, pressed metal rainwater goods. Historic roughcast rendered walls with stone plinth course above basement. Six-over-three and six-over-six timber sash windows with stone sills, corresponding multiple-pane Wyatt windows in canted bay. Round-headed multiple-pane stair window to rear elevation with spoked cob-web head. Raised block-and-start stone surrounds to basement windows with keystone in lintels. Doorcase with broken pediment on curved timber consoles and pilasters with round petal-design fanlight over timber panelled front door, opening to stone entrance steps. Interior having timber stairs and window shutters, stucco groin-vault to first-floor corridor with circular roof lanterns. Stone stairs and paving to basement facing open well on south-west and north-west sides. Double-leaf cast-iron entrance gates flanked by octagonal-profile stone piers with rendered convex wing walls having saddle copings and square-profile stone end-piers to road. Yard to north-west of house enclosed by walls and outbuildings. Two-storey rendered range to west side of yard with pitched slate roof, timber casement windows to upper level, round-headed window and door openings at ground level with spoked cobweb fanlights, one in recess with corbel table, segmental-headed coach door in breakfront with oculus above.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bocade Glebe.
- 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 Bocade Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Bocade Glebe
- Area
- 1,091,042 m² (109.1 ha, 269.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Electoral division
- Carn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carn electoral division: 213 people in 83 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Claragh, Claraghpottle Glebe, Drumbagh, Drumcanon, Drumcartagh or Diamondhill, Feugh (Bishops) or Drumalla, Kildallan, Listiernan
- Placenames
- Bocade Glebe 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.