# Derrygeeraghan, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan; in Irish Doire Uí Chiaracháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 972,979 m² (97.3 ha, 240.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,943 m² (0.99 ha, 2.46 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumlane, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/drumlane.md - Barony: Loughtee Lower - Electoral division: Milltown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 404 people lived in 148 households in the Milltown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5241 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20707 - Centre: latitude 54.075236, longitude -7.472134 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 487520: 200,707 m² (20.07 ha, 49.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487520.md - Parcel 472638: 154,761 m² (15.48 ha, 38.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472638.md - Parcel 4918135: 117,505 m² (11.75 ha, 29.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4918135.md - Parcel 3448950: 85,657 m² (8.57 ha, 21.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3448950.md - Parcel 465627: 51,950 m² (5.2 ha, 12.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465627.md - Parcel 474680: 41,048 m² (4.1 ha, 10.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474680.md - Parcel 474681: 38,965 m² (3.9 ha, 9.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474681.md - Parcel 466852: 37,890 m² (3.79 ha, 9.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466852.md - Parcel 472637: 36,804 m² (3.68 ha, 9.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472637.md - Parcel 458849: 35,044 m² (3.5 ha, 8.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/458849.md - Parcel 447826: 34,856 m² (3.49 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447826.md - Parcel 472324: 34,775 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472324.md - Parcel 465148: 22,854 m² (2.29 ha, 5.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465148.md - Parcel 445124: 9,943 m² (0.99 ha, 2.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445124.md - Parcel 487521: 8,991 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487521.md - Parcel 467777: 8,657 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467777.md - Parcel 3462511: 7,225 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462511.md - Parcel 456758: 6,614 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456758.md - Parcel 3462460: 6,432 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462460.md - Parcel 436084: 5,999 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436084.md - Parcel 3462397: 4,599 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462397.md - Parcel 461215: 4,315 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/461215.md - Parcel 3462497: 4,073 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462497.md - Parcel 3467802: 3,895 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3467802.md - Parcel 457868: 3,648 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/457868.md - Parcel 3462381: 3,370 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3462381.md - Parcel 3358822: 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3358822.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 26 Mar 2025, Cavan County Council 2560136: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for alterations to site layout previously approved (Pl. Reg. No.04/1808) and all ancillary & associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560136/0 - 5 Mar 2025, Cavan County Council 2560078: N/a. Retention. for alterations to site layout previously approved (Pl. Reg. No.04/1808) and all ancillary & associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560078/0 - 14 Apr 2024, Cavan County Council 2460147: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460147/0 - 20 Mar 2024, Cavan County Council 2460103: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460103/0 - 4 Oct 2023, Cavan County Council 23298: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/23298/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, site code 000007, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000007 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs, site code 000007 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV014-024: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV014-024----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrygeeraghan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Derrygeeraghan, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, 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/derrygeeraghan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derrygeeraghan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derrygeeraghan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Derrygeeraghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghavilla: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghavilla.md - Carrigan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/carrigan-20281.md - Derryhoo: https://everytownland.com/cavan/derryhoo-20714.md - Feugh (Maxwell): https://everytownland.com/cavan/feugh-maxwell.md - Gartbrattan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gartbrattan-21134.md - Kilnacranagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/kilnacranagh.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/cavan/milltown.md - Mullaghmeen: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullaghmeen.md - Uragh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/uragh-21973.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/derrygeeraghan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/derrygeeraghan