Claragh

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claragh, from 82 m² to 129,868 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 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.

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  to construct a new two-storey dwelling house, form new vechicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site developemnt works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460504

• 17 Apr 2024Refused

  to construct a new two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto public road roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460151

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  to demolish existing habitable dwelling, to construct new single storey dwelling, incorporate waste water treatment system and percolation area and carry out associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18265

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

• CV016-015001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Sited on the summit of a drumlin hill. An approximately rectangular cairn (dims. 9.1m N-S;7.1m E-W). Much denuded (max. H. 1.1m). The remains of a megalithic structure called 'Cloghard' (CV016-015001-) lies 15m to E. 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

• CV016-015002 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Sited on a flat hilltop and 7m SE of the perimeter of a round cairn (CV016-015001-). Between two set stones, 2.7m apart, and leaning against one of them is a great block of stone. The set stone to the SW measures 0.8m by 0.6m by 1.1m high and the other 1m by 0.5m by 0.8m high. The intervening block, now split, leans against the latter. It measures 2.1m by 1.5m by 1.1m in size. Two prostrate slabs, the larger 1m in maximum dimension, lie at the E end of the structure. A slight grassy mound around the remains may not be original. The nature of the monument is not now clear. 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

• CV016-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 29.4m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone from NNE-S-W. From W-N-NNE the perimeter is obscured by a modern field boundary. Original entrance not recognisable. Projecting from the inner face of the bank at S is a small subrectangular area (int. dims. 5.6m NE-SW; 4.2m NW-SE) enclosed by a low, broad bank of earth and stone. Entrance to this may have been either through a wide break in the bank at E or through a smaller break at NNE. Running 2.6m from the NE of this enclosure is a low, much-ruined, linear drystone wall. 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 Claragh.

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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Claragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Claragh · Clárach

Area

1,213,720 m² (121.37 ha, 299.92 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Drumcarn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarn electoral division: 518 people in 189 households; 92% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockly, Drumavrack, Drumcor, Drumeena, Mullalougher, Treehoo

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.