Carrigabruse
Carrigabruse is a townland in the civil parish of Loughan or Castlekeeran, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan.
- Area
- 84.7 ha
- 209 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 2,965 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigabruse, from 12 m² to 189,860 m² (18.99 ha, 46.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrigabruse 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
23 May 2025Conditional
for alterations to an existing dwelling, including: (a) the change of use of a garage into a granny flat; (b) the construction of a single storey carport linking the side of the existing dwelling with the proposed granny flat; (c) demolition of covered outdoor amenity area and part of existing low wall to facilitate the construction of (d) a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560257
30 Apr 2025N/a
for alterations to an existing dwelling, including: (a) the change of use of a garage into a granny flat; (b) the construction of a single storey carport linking the side of the existing dwelling with the proposed granny flat; and (c) the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560209
7 Jan 2025Conditional
to (a) construct two-storey dwelling, (b) demolition of the existing storage yard, (c) construct a detached single-story domestic garage with a carport, (d) install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area (e) form new entrance from public road, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560002
17 Dec 2024N/a
to (a) construct two-storey dwelling, (b) demolition of the existing storage yard, (c) construct a detached single-story domestic garage with a carport, (d) install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area (e) form new entrance from public road, together with all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460626
16 May 2018Conditional
to retain a single storey detached home office and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18202
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 Carrigabruse.
Recorded monuments
- CV044-001 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the N slope of a low drumlin ridge. Not visible at ground level. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrigabruse.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrigabruse, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrigabruse.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carrigabruse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Carrigabruse
- Area
- 847,495 m² (84.75 ha, 209.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughan or Castlekeeran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Virginia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,210 people lived in 1,733 households in the Virginia electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bruse, Carrakeelty Beg, Carrigasimon, Drumheel, Kilnagun
- Placenames
- Carrigabruse 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.