Derrygarra Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Castleterra, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 32.3 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 5,205 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- M2
- Town Core
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygarra Lower, from 165 m² to 260,087 m² (26.01 ha, 64.27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Oct 2021Refused
for the construction of a loose cattle shed and ancillary works (i.e. raising field level with fill to road level height, concrete yards, and roofed manure pit all for agricultural purposes only) in new farmyard area with new farm site entrance
Permission · Cavan County Council, 21652
8 Nov 2019Conditional
for rebuilding existing stone wall, supporting retaining wall which forms part of enabling works to construct development granted under planning Reg. No 18/557 and also temporary silt fence/curtain constructed during construction, re-piping existing culvert and all ancillary works. Permission also sought to retain canopy to the side of existing building
Retention · Cavan County Council, 19439
21 Dec 2018Conditional
to erect fully serviced single storey extension to form additional dining area with associated alterations to elevations and all ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 18557
4 Apr 2018Conditional
to retain partial demolition of existing dwelling and partial construction of replacement structure with all associated siteworks. Planning permission also sought to demolish walls of existing dwelling and re-build the structure with additional floor area in similar design to the existing with all associated and ancillary works (Previous planning Reference No. 16/601 relates to the site)
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18135
29 Mar 2017Conditional
to convert and extend first floor of existing premises known as The Derragarra Inn to form new function and dining rooms, along with all associated alterations to elevations and all ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17119
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Derrygarra Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Derrygarra Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygarra Lower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2068 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrygarra Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Derrygarra Lower
- Area
- 323,037 m² (32.3 ha, 79.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleterra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Butler's Bridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Butler's Bridge electoral division: 501 people in 192 households; 77% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadrumgullin, Derrygarra Upper, Egramush, Inishbeg, Kilnaglare Upper
- Placenames
- Derrygarra Lower 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.