Derrygeeraghan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrygeeraghan, from 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres) to 200,707 m² (20.07 ha, 49.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Derrygeeraghan 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.

• 26 Mar 2025Conditional

  for alterations to site layout previously approved (Pl. Reg. No.04/1808) and all ancillary & associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560136

• 5 Mar 2025N/a

  for alterations to site layout previously approved (Pl. Reg. No.04/1808) and all ancillary & associated site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560078

• 14 Apr 2024Conditional

  for development of a) demolition of existing extension, b) construction of new extension to side of existing dwelling c) alterations to existing elevations including raising existing roof height and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460147

• 20 Mar 2024N/a

  for alterations to plans & elevations of existing dwelling to increase the dwelling from 1.5 storey to a 2 storey house, connection to the proposed new treatment plant, ecoflo coco filter and polishing filter granted planning 23/298 together with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460103

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  for (1) Decommissioning of an existing septic tank and soak pit and to install a proprietary waste water treatment uni and percolation area, (2) and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23298

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV014-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with wide, deep, intermediate fosse. A modern trench, which was apparently dug on the site of a fosse, encloses the outer bank from NNW-N-NE. Outer bank identifiable only from SSW-N-NE. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded that the original entrance was at SE. 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 Derrygeeraghan.

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 Derrygeeraghan.

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.

No address of the register names Derrygeeraghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Derrygeeraghan · Doire Uí Chiaracháin

Area

972,979 m² (97.3 ha, 240.43 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlane, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 404 people in 148 households; 87% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavilla, Carrigan, Derryhoo, Feugh (Maxwell), Gartbrattan, Kilnacranagh, Milltown, Mullaghmeen, Uragh

Placenames

Derrygeeraghan 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.