Clifferna

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clifferna, from 98 m² to 235,845 m² (23.58 ha, 58.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 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 Clifferna 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.

• 29 May 2026N/a

  for an old school house bought from Cavan council, changes made to existing building and one new out building (Garage). New entrance added

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660298

• 13 Feb 2026N/a

  for retention for an old school house bought from Cavan council , changes made to existing building and one new out building ( Garage ) new entrance added

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660068

• 3 Nov 2025N/a

  for retention for an old school house bought from Cavan council , changes made to existing building and one new out building ( Garage ) . New entrance added

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560655

• 20 Oct 2025Refused

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560629

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  for the construction of two no. underground slurry storage tank extensions (with slats at ground level) to the existing slatted shed structures, and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560100

• 6 Feb 2025Refused

  for (1) Demolition of existing dormer type dwelling, (2) Construction of a replacement dormer type dwelling, (3) Decommissioning existing septic tank, (4) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and (5) Completion of all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560035

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a new bungalow style dwelling house & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system with following percolation area. New entrance onto public road together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2461

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  to (a) convert existing uninhabited dwelling house into a domestic garage and store (b) construct a replacement two storey dwelling (b) install waste water treatment system and percolation area, (c) form new entrance from the public road (e) together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460307

• 19 Jun 2024N/a

  to (a) convert existing uninhabited dwelling house into a domestic garage and store (b) construct a replacement two storey dwelling (b) install waste water treatment system and percolation area, (c) form new entrance from the public road (e) together with all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460280

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  to construct a bungalow type dwelling, domestic garage, form new site entrance onto public road, install proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2368

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, form new site entrance onto public roadway and install proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2081

• 11 Dec 2018Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half type dwelling, detached domestic garage, form new site entrance onto the public road, install proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18514

• 4 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct 1 no. free range poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s), soiled water tank(s) etc. and all associated site works (to include upgrading the site entrance) arising from the above proposed development. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18402

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  the construction of a walled silage base with concrete aprons and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18261

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 Clifferna.

Recorded monuments

• CV027-005---* Church
  Description

  Davies (1948, 111) recorded that there was an early church here, apparently a short distance to the NE of the present church. 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

• CV027-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 23m) enclosed by an earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. A later field boundary has been superimposed on the bank at N rendering it square in plan on this side. Original entrance may be represented by a break in bank at NE. 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

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular farmhouse, built c.1820, with advanced flat-roofed porches added to front and rear elevations, c.1960. Now disued. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, galvanised rainwater goods, rendered brick chimneystacks indicating tripartite internal division. Roughcast cement-rendered walls with smooth eaves and plinth course and raised end pilasters. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with raised stucco surrounds and heavy stone sills. Flat-roofed porch on front elevation having part-glaxed door to side. Full height timber battened door to rear porch. Later nineteenth-century three-bay outbuilding forming half-courtyard layout. Set on corner site enclosed on two sides by low roughcast rendered walls with profiled coping, square-profile piers with stone caps and forged-iron pedestrian gate and matching double-leaf vehicular gates.

• Farm house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1920, with two-storey return, single-storey entrance porch. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, tall red brickstacks with yellow brick decorative band. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to ground floor below a stucco platband under first floor sills, rusticated stucco quoins, and pebbledash to first floor. Roughcast rendered walls to rear elevation and return. Flat roofed porch having ruled-and-lined rendered walls and gadroon-profiled concrete pediment as blocking course. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows with wide margin panes, raised stucco architrave, and stone sills. Replacement door and side lights. Vernacular building attached to east gable serving as side entrance porch having a curved corrugated iron roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Early vernacular farmhouse complex, c.1820, retained within farmyard to the south-east. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs and timber battened doors.

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 Clifferna.

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

Name

Clifferna · An Chliaifearna

Area

3,525,856 m² (352.59 ha, 871.26 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Larah South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Larah South electoral division: 507 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altbeagh, Ardardagh, Cormeen, Greaghagibney, Knockataggart, Tirlahode Lower, Tirlahode Upper

Placenames

Clifferna 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.