Bracklagh

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracklagh, from 73 m² to 166,736 m² (16.67 ha, 41.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bracklagh 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.

• 27 Feb 2025Conditional

  for the construction of two rooflights in the main roof attic level at the front (South-West) of the house

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560070

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460483

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bracklagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV041-002001 Church
  Description

  Church of Ireland chapel built in 1739 situated at the E end of a roughly rectangular contemporary graveyard. Davies (1948,95) claimed that the site is ancient and 'marked on the Baronial map'. Nothing visible at ground level at this location. 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

• CV041-002002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Drumloman Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1785–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1789, having three-bay nave with doorcase to west gable removed, incorporating fabric of earlier building. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and limestone barge coping. Chimneystack to eaves of northern side, cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared limestone eaves course returning as kneeler to gable ends. Ruled-and-lined render over rubble stone walls. Plaque over west door inscribed ‘THIS CHURCH WAS / BUILT CHIEFLY AT THE / EXPENCE OF WILLIAM / GORE OF WOODFORD / ESQ IN THE YEAR / 1789’. Pointed twin-light timber tracery windows to south side having with multiple-pane glazing. North side unfenestrated. Tracery window to east gable facing road having triple-lights with cusped heads and stained glass, all having limestone surrounds, sills, and concave-profile hood mouldings. Timber louvres at high level to chancel gable. Square-headed door opening to west elevation, with limestone lintel and chamfered surrounds. Interior having central aisle with tiled floor, timber partitions and doors. Set within graveyard bounded by roughcast rendered boundary walls flanking forged gate.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Bracklagh.

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.

No address of the register names Bracklagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Bracklagh

Area

1,000,886 m² (100.09 ha, 247.32 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlumman, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilgolagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgolagh electoral division: 331 people in 122 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywillin (Co. Longford), Carrickabane, Cullaboy Upper, Kilgolagh, Lisnadarragh

Placenames

Bracklagh 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.