Claragh

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claragh, from 16 m² to 157,320 m² (15.73 ha, 38.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Claragh 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.

• 24 Apr 2024Refused

  for development of: (a) erect single storey industrial unit for storage (b) alterations to site layout and site boundaries under previously approved (planning Ref:20/332) and all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460163

• 10 Apr 2024Conditional

  for alterations to previously approved under planning Ref:20/332. Alterations include amendments to site layout and floor plans, elevations, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460136

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  erect fully serviced industrial unit incorporating 2 storey administration & staff facility areas, single storey storage, pick & pack areas, access off existing service road, parking, signage, landscaping, boundary treatments, connection to public sewer, surface water, watermain and utility services and all ancillary and associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20332

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 Claragh.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 47m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. From ESE-SSE the site is bordered by a modern roadway and elsewhere is enclosed by field boundaries. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at ESE represents original entrance. 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

• Ashfield Lodge, bridge, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch limestone and sandstone road bridge, built 1858, over Dromore River. Cut-stone copings serving as plinth for cast-iron diamond lattice railings to both sides of flat tarmacadam deck. Railings terminating with square-profile lattice piers with domed finials. Roughly coursed limestone spandrels capped by projecting cut-stone course below parapet copings. Cut voussoirs to segmental arches with sharp arris to arch rings. Date stone on upriver elevation to top of arch with Clements family arms shield to arch on downriver elevation. Roughly coursed stone soffits. Rounded dressed limestone U-cutwaters with rounded cappings. Ashlar abutments. Imposts of outer arches rounded towards bank.

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

At the centre of the townland of Claragh, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Claragh.

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.

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

Name

Claragh

Area

1,000,181 m² (100.02 ha, 247.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

414 people lived in 135 households in the Ashfield electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Corballyquill, Corbeagh, Cornacarrow, Drumloaghan, Errigal

Placenames

Claragh 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.