# Croaghan, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Munterconnaught, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,795,351 m² (179.54 ha, 443.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,331 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Munterconnaught, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/munterconnaught.md - Barony: Castlerahan - Electoral division: Munterconnaught, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4246 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20622 - Centre: latitude 53.804744, longitude -7.108472 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghan, from 53 m² to 285,873 m² (28.59 ha, 70.64 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 433430: 285,873 m² (28.59 ha, 70.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433430.md - Parcel 480153: 227,956 m² (22.8 ha, 56.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/480153.md - Parcel 454817: 205,447 m² (20.54 ha, 50.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/454817.md - Parcel 462288: 199,019 m² (19.9 ha, 49.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/462288.md - Parcel 481557: 118,583 m² (11.86 ha, 29.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481557.md - Parcel 446937: 109,495 m² (10.95 ha, 27.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/446937.md - Parcel 464144: 100,363 m² (10.04 ha, 24.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464144.md - Parcel 447802: 96,233 m² (9.62 ha, 23.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447802.md - Parcel 438902: 83,571 m² (8.36 ha, 20.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438902.md - Parcel 481777: 80,403 m² (8.04 ha, 19.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481777.md - Parcel 481730: 61,116 m² (6.11 ha, 15.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481730.md - Parcel 435510: 42,547 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435510.md - Parcel 491157: 38,565 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/491157.md - Parcel 479362: 11,057 m² (1.11 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/479362.md - Parcel 476138: 9,187 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476138.md - Parcel 432836: 8,531 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/432836.md - Parcel 455251: 8,408 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455251.md - Parcel 490994: 6,331 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490994.md - Parcel 5169443: 6,238 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169443.md - Parcel 5263852: 6,127 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5263852.md - Parcel 477516: 5,792 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477516.md - Parcel 442134: 4,075 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442134.md - Parcel 475242: 3,933 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475242.md - Parcel 5670244: 3,924 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5670244.md - Parcel 4694012: 3,697 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4694012.md - Parcel 436866: 3,316 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436866.md - Parcel 5607197: 3,199 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5607197.md - Parcel 490179: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490179.md - Parcel 487980: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487980.md - Parcel 3054850: 2,061 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3054850.md - Parcel 492141: 1,834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/492141.md - Parcel 5670252: 1,453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5670252.md - Parcel 488438: 661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/488438.md - Parcel 5665045: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665045.md - Parcel 5665044: 53 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5665044.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 17 Oct 2025, Cavan County Council 2560624: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560624/0 - 1 Oct 2025, Cavan County Council 2560587: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560587/0 - 8 Dec 2017, Cavan County Council 17511: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17511/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ramor, site code 000008 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV043-009001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV043-009001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV043-009002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40404301, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40404301. 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, registry number 40404302, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40404302. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/croaghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/croaghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/croaghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Croaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Behernagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/behernagh.md - Carrick: https://everytownland.com/cavan/carrick-20251.md - Knockatemple: https://everytownland.com/cavan/knockatemple.md - Lurganboy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lurganboy-21567.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/croaghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/croaghan