Carnagh Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Drumlumman, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 146.5 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 8,205 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carnagh Lower, from 812 m² to 153,556 m² (15.36 ha, 37.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Carnagh Lower 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
18 Jun 2026N/a
for recontouring of farmlands for the benefit of agriculture via the importation of clean inert soil and stone over an area of 3.25 Hectares. This will include site drainage works and all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660341
12 Dec 2023N/a
for infilling of low-lying land/site by an average of 1.5 - 2 meters with imported natural materials of clay, subsoil, stone and inert material in order to raise the ground levels so as to improve the land/site for landscaping works. The land/site will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass, and shrubs, trees, etc planted when completed
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360306
10 Nov 2023N/a
for the infilling of low-lying land / site with imported natural materials of clay, subsoil, stone and inert material in order to raise the ground levels so as to improve the land / site for landscaping works. The land / site will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass, and shrubs, trees, etc planted when completed
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360269
14 Aug 2019Conditional
to retain all alterations made to floor plans and elevations of dwelling house previously approved under planning application ref. no. 06/469 during the course of construction, including revised footprint, revised brick finish to elevations, revised window and door ope sizes and revised front porch design. PLANNING PERMISSION is also sought to demolish unauthorised first floor extension, install waste water treatment system and percolation area and complete all outstanding works to the dwelling and the overall site development, together with all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19313
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gowna 000992
Recorded monuments
- CV037-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 32m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. An earlier report (OPW 1970) noted traces of a fosse from SW-WNW. A modern laneway skirts the external foot of the bank from NW-N-NE. 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
- CV037-017001 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Small circular spring well (int. diam. c. 1m) enclosed from N-E-S by a much-disturbed drystone wall. An overflow channel occurs at W. A small bullaun stone (CV037-017001-) is situated at the NW edge of the well. Patterns are still held annually here on March 17th (local information). 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
- CV037-017002 Bullaun stone
Description
Situated at NW edge of 'St Patrick's Well' (CV037-017001-). Small irregularly shaped boulder (max. dim. 0.3m) with a shallow bullaun (Wth 0.15m) at its centre. 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
Architectural heritage
- Kilsaran Bridge, bridge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span segmental-arched limestone road bridge, built c.1850, spanning north-west to south-east over River Erne. Random-coursed squared rock-faced spandrels, parapet and coping. Regular rock-faced voussoirs to arch ring with dressed underside and arris, squared rubble barrel over abutment of larger squared rubble stone. Short flight of rubble and concrete steps to river bank at south-east.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carnagh Lower.
- 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 Carnagh Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Carnagh Lower
- Area
- 1,465,448 m² (146.54 ha, 362.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlumman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Kilcogy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcogy electoral division: 452 people in 151 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carnagh Upper, Cormaddyduff, Derries, Grousehall, Kilsaran
- Placenames
- Carnagh Lower 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.