# Darkley, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Shercock, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,809,793 m² (180.98 ha, 447.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,762 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M4 White Lands, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Shercock, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/shercock.md - Barony: Clankee - Electoral division: Shercock, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Shercock electoral division: 1,276 people in 476 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3814 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20666 - Centre: latitude 53.996162, longitude -6.921204 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Darkley, from 123 m² to 140,209 m² (14.02 ha, 34.65 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 459466: 140,209 m² (14.02 ha, 34.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459466.md - Parcel 444951: 122,451 m² (12.25 ha, 30.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444951.md - Parcel 450177: 116,575 m² (11.66 ha, 28.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450177.md - Parcel 455406: 98,458 m² (9.85 ha, 24.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455406.md - Parcel 490062: 94,185 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490062.md - Parcel 486723: 90,023 m² (9 ha, 22.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486723.md - Parcel 481291: 77,431 m² (7.74 ha, 19.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481291.md - Parcel 479342: 74,811 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/479342.md - Parcel 472715: 55,082 m² (5.51 ha, 13.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472715.md - Parcel 450086: 54,709 m² (5.47 ha, 13.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450086.md - Parcel 483160: 50,031 m² (5 ha, 12.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483160.md - Parcel 481687: 42,133 m² (4.21 ha, 10.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481687.md - Parcel 438147: 41,193 m² (4.12 ha, 10.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438147.md - Parcel 466190: 39,810 m² (3.98 ha, 9.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466190.md - Parcel 474791: 33,298 m² (3.33 ha, 8.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474791.md - Parcel 443661: 33,188 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443661.md - Parcel 435821: 32,558 m² (3.26 ha, 8.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435821.md - Parcel 5155565: 30,740 m² (3.07 ha, 7.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5155565.md - Parcel 471618: 28,528 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/471618.md - Parcel 480238: 26,544 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/480238.md - Parcel 490785: 21,623 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490785.md - Parcel 492988: 18,851 m² (1.89 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/492988.md - Parcel 435683: 13,977 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435683.md - Parcel 479021: 13,064 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/479021.md - Parcel 474360: 12,714 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474360.md - Parcel 474418: 12,708 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474418.md - Parcel 461554: 11,925 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/461554.md - Parcel 438717: 11,762 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438717.md - Parcel 5273302: 10,533 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5273302.md - Parcel 451761: 10,136 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/451761.md - Parcel 475919: 8,112 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475919.md - Parcel 453438: 6,906 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/453438.md - Parcel 6040597: 6,006 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040597.md - Parcel 5116818: 3,955 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5116818.md - Parcel 475596: 3,333 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475596.md - Parcel 491418: 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/491418.md - Parcel 5499828: 2,880 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5499828.md - Parcel 4580622: 2,836 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4580622.md - Parcel 3167018: 2,274 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3167018.md - Parcel 4476937: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4476937.md - Parcel 476785: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476785.md - Parcel 479036: 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/479036.md - Parcel 3324558: 2,058 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3324558.md - Parcel 3338575: 1,962 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3338575.md - Parcel 2434750: 1,802 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2434750.md - Parcel 452196: 1,699 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/452196.md - Parcel 481411: 1,602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/481411.md - Parcel 489379: 1,279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/489379.md - Parcel 481607: 1,218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/481607.md - Parcel 493020: 1,209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/493020.md - Parcel 461550: 928 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/461550.md - Parcel 3045237: 618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3045237.md - Parcel 483057: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/483057.md - Parcel 6169950: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6169950.md - Parcel 5356332: 123 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5356332.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M4 White Lands (Built up area): Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan; 9 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.cavancoco.ie/file-library/planning/development-plans/development-plan-2022-2028/written-statement/cdp-chapter-14_.pdf#page=11 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 22 Jan 2026, Cavan County Council 2660020: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for (1) the RETENTION PERMISSION and PLANNING PERMISSION for completion of a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling (2) the restoration and completion of the existing dwelling. (3) Install a new septic tank system and percolation area, together with all associated site works. The works are being carried out to a Recorded Protected Structure RPS NO CV 0254 Cavan County Development Plan - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660020/0 - 20 Nov 2025, Cavan County Council 2560690: N/a. Retention. for the retention and completion of a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling (2) the restoration and completion of the existing dwelling. (3) Install a new septic tank system and percolation area, together with all associated site works. The works are located within the curtilage of Recorded Protected Structure RPS NO CV 0254 Cavan County Development Plan. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560690/0 - 26 Aug 2025, Cavan County Council 2560499: N/a. Retention. for A SINGLE STOREY WITH AN EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560499/0 - 5 May 2021, Cavan County Council 21256: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new building for the purpose of intake of raw material together with all associated site works. The site in question has an EPA IED Licence re. no. P1021-01. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21256/0 - 17 Jun 2020, Cavan County Council 20227: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, upgrade existing entrance and install a waste water treatment unit and percolation areas together with all ancillary works on this site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20227/0 - 22 Jul 2019, Cavan County Council 19285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for development consisting of (a) to erect a four storey extension to the existing mill, (b) to erect a single storey detached maintenance building and (c) to relocate 3 no. bunded silos and all associated site works. The site in question has an EPA IED Licence Ref. No. P1021-01. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19285/0 - 1 Nov 2017, Cavan County Council 17463: Conditional. Retention. for the development consisting of retention planning permission for the as constructed Security Hut at the entrance to the site and all associated site works (Originally granted under planning reference No. 16/300) at our existing facility. The site currently has an EPA IED Licence (Reg. No. P0024-03). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17463/0 - 12 May 2017, Cavan County Council 17198: Conditional. Permission. to (i) Carry out amendments to previously approved permission, Ref. No. 14/127 for new single storey Production Building on the south eastern side of the existing two storey building, these amendments area as follows: (a) Change of use of a section of the area from Production to Administration/Staff Facilities, Area = 620m2, (b) construct new first floor level over the change of use area for Administration use, Area = 620m2, (ii) Construct new two storey extension (area = 435m2 on ground floor, 415m2 on first floor) on the south eastern side of the existing building for administration/staff facilities use. (iii) To construct new single storey Link Corridor, (area = 75m2) on the south western side of the existing two storey Production building for access from the new administration /staff facilities building to the existing production building. (iv) To construct new single storey box store and pallet tray storage building, (Area = 800m2) with two dock levellers and adjacent open bunded storage area on the north eastern side of the main production building. Works include connection to existing site services and associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17198/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Darkley. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV023-018001: Mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV023-018001-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - CV023-018002: Mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV023-018002-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - CV023-018003: Weir - regulating, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV023-018003-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) - House, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 40402325, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402325. Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c.1800, now in use as outbuilding. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, some galvanised rainwater goods. Stone chimneystack, with brick to gable suggesting location of former gable chimneystack. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walls, with roughcast render to front elevation, exposed stone to rear elevation. Windbreak porch surround with flat. Casement windows to front and rear elevation. High level window to gable end. Battened timber doors to windbreak and flanking altered openingse. Opens directly to farmyard, having farm outbuildings in perpendicular range to west with haggard and steel hayshed beyond. Boundary wall along roadside with concrete copings and square-profile piers topped with ball finials, flanking double-leaf gates of decorative forged iron work with cross bracing over dog bars with scroll and heart details. - Miller's house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40402334, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402334. Detached five-bay two-storey former miller’s house, built c.1800, with lean-to return to rear elevation. Now a private dwelling. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, four rendered chimneystacks with coping and clay pots, one each on gable ends and two in ridge, replacement rainwater goods. Window openings with stone sills, plain reveals with one-over-one timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes, timber shutters internally. Gabled cantilevered timber canopy over entrance, four panelled door with glazed upper panel in Arts-and-Crafts style. Detached outbuildings parallel to rear, having pitched slate roof and walls of roughly coursed rubble stone. ## 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; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Darkley. - 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/darkley.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/darkley.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/darkley.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Darkley, Shercock: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/cavan/darkley-shercock.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrickcreeny: https://everytownland.com/cavan/carrickcreeny.md - Corclare: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corclare.md - Drumlom: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumlom.md - Killymacaran: https://everytownland.com/cavan/killymacaran.md - Lisdrumskea: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisdrumskea.md - Lisnadarragh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisnadarragh-21524.md - Shinan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/shinan.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/darkley - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/darkley