Croaghan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghan, from 53 m² to 285,873 m² (28.59 ha, 70.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Croaghan 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  for: (1) Construction of a proposed 2 storey type dwelling (2) construction of a detached single storey domestic garage (3) to break new entrance onto road (4) to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (5) and all associated ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560624

• 1 Oct 2025N/a

  for the following: (1) Construction of a proposed 2 storey type dwelling (2) construction of a detached single storey domestic garage (3) to break new entrance onto road (4) to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (5) and all associated ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560587

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, form entrance onto roadway, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17511

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ramor 000008

Recorded monuments

• CV043-009001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An almost circular raised area (int. dims. 50m N-S; 45.6m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank identifiable from SSW-N-NE. The site is divided into two unequal portions by a field boundary running NW-SW. The smaller portion, SE of the field boundary, has been levelled but the outline of the perimeter may still be traced. Original entrance not recognisable. An L-shaped depression at the centre of the internal area probably represents the site of a souterrain (1232). 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

• CV043-009002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within Croaghan rath (CV043-009001-). An L-shaped depression, the longer leg (L 8m; Wth 3.4m; D 1m) aligned NW-SE and the other (L 6m; Wth 3.5m; D 0.6m) running NE-SW at the centre of the interior, probably represents the site of a souterrain. 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

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c.1860, having pair of canted bay windows flanking central entrance bay, two-storey return to rear, and recent glazed lean-to porch addition to front. Now vacant. Hipped replacement slate roof with pair of rendered chimneystacks flanking centre bay, overhanging eaves resting on timber brackets with cast-iron rainwater goods. Recent cement render to walls with historic channel-jointed block-and-start quoins and ashlar plinth. Continuous sill course to first floor windows and to bay windows. Two-over-two timber sash windows to front of bay windows with one-over-one timber sash windows to sides. UPVC casements and stone sills to all other openings. Segmental-headed opening to front door with moulded archivolt, single-pane overlight over four-panelled timber door flanked by responding side panels. Cement-rendered yard wall attached to house to south-west terminating in square-profile ashlar piers with quarry-faced capping and lower forged gates. Range of outbuildings to farmyard to south comprising three-bay two-storey building and two-bay single-storey building with carriage arch, having pitched artificial slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber sash windows and timber sheeted doors. Recessed entrance with low splayed rubble-stone flanking walls, square-profile ashlar piers and double cast-iron gates.

• Lake View House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached house, built c.1820, with lean-to single-storey extension to rear and two-bay extension to west. Hipped roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and roughcast rendered walls. Courtyard to rear comprising two ranges of two-storey multiple-bay outbuildings, northern and western ranges on an L-plan with third range to east. Pitched slate roofs to outbuildings with roughcast rendered and exposed rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings without window and doors to northern range, slit openings to first floor of eastern range with square-headed loft door to gable end. Detached two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1820, now vacant. Hipped slate roof, central rendered chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls with stone eaves course, timber sliding sash windows to east, and timber battened door to north.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Croaghan

Area

1,795,351 m² (179.54 ha, 443.64 acres)

Civil parish

Munterconnaught, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Munterconnaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Munterconnaught electoral division: 1,182 people in 390 households; 88% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behernagh, Carrick, Knockatemple, Lurganboy

Placenames

Croaghan 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.