Darkley

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Darkley, from 123 m² to 140,209 m² (14.02 ha, 34.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4White 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  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

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660020

• 20 Nov 2025N/a

  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

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560690

• 26 Aug 2025N/a

  for A SINGLE STOREY WITH AN EXTENSION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560499

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  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

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21256

• 17 Jun 2020Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20227

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19285

• 1 Nov 2017Conditional

  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)

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 17463

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  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

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17198

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 Darkley.

Recorded monuments

• CV023-018001 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  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
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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 Darkley.

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.

• Darkley, Shercock6 sales

Name

Darkley

Area

1,809,793 m² (180.98 ha, 447.21 acres)

Civil parish

Shercock, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Shercock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickcreeny, Corclare, Drumlom, Killymacaran, Lisdrumskea, Lisnadarragh, Shinan

Placenames

Darkley 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.