Crossafehin

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossafehin, from 23 m² to 154,981 m² (15.5 ha, 38.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Crossafehin 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 Apr 2026N/a

  for RETENTION permission is sought for works to existing tourist campsite comprising: (a) to retain 2 No. existing portaloos & associated foul water storage tank PLANNING PERMISSION is sought for works to existing tourist campsite comprising: (b) a single storey reception/check in building (c) a single storey shower/toilet building (d) a single storey tuck shop (e) 3 No. sub-terranean equipment storage units (f) an increase in the number of tents and camper vans from that previously granted under ABP-305664-19 as follows: Proposed 44 no. tent pitch areas to allow for 176 No. persons (2 No. tents per pitch to allow for families) ii. 10 No visitor camper/caravan parking pitches iii. 3 No. staff camper pitches (g) proposed allowance of 60 No. persons for day visitors (h) Day visitor overflow car park (I) floating jetting (j) landscaping and all there ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660193

• 8 Apr 2026N/a

  for RETENTION permission sought for works to existing tourist campsite comprising: (a) to retain 2 No. existing portaloos & associated foul water storage tank. Planning PERMISSION is sought for works to existing tourist campsite comprising: (b) a single storey reception/check in building (c) a single storey shower/toilet building (d) a single storey tuck shop (e) 3 No. sub-terranean equipment storage units (f) an increase in the number of tents and camper vans from that previously granted under ABP-305661-19 as follows: i. Proposed 44 no. tent pitch areas to allow for 176 No. persons (2 No. tents per pitch to allow for families) ii. 10 No visitor camper/caravan parking pitches iii. 3 No. staff camper pitches (g) proposed allowance of 60 No. persons for day visitors (h) Day visitor overflow car park (I) floating jetting (j) landscaping and all other ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660160

• 19 Aug 2024Conditional

  to retain single storey extension to the northern side of an existing two-storey dwelling. Development for which retention is sought include construction of a new bedroom with accessible shower room and walk in wardrobe together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460392

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) to decommission an existing septic tank, (2) to relocate and upgrade to a new wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460326

• 5 Jun 2024N/a

  to decommission an existing septic tank, relocate and upgrade to a new wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460245

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension, and a single storey family flat extension to the side of existing dwelling, install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23141

• 21 Jan 2022Conditional

  construct dormer bungalow style dwelling and detached domestic garage, install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area, form new entrance from public road together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2215

• 19 Sept 2018Conditional

  to retain the use of lands for the purpose of caravanning and camping and associated site works including 'portaloo' type temporary toilets, access driveway and entrance from existing laneway

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 18383

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

• CV039-081 Crannog
  Description

  Two islands 60m apart, situated in a shallow sheltered bay, close to the SW shoreline of Lough Ramor. The larger NW island is subrectangular in plan (dims. c. 100m WNW-ESE; 60m NNE-SSW). The SE island is roughly circular (diam. c. 40m). Davies (ITA Survey 1940) recorded a mound at the centre of one of these islands c. 2m high but did not specify its location or whether the mound was natural or artificial. 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 Crossafehin.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Crossafehin.

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.

• Crossafehin, Virginia5 sales

Name

Crossafehin

Area

967,481 m² (96.75 ha, 239.07 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

Carrick, Cormaddyduff, Eighter

Placenames

Crossafehin 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.