Doocarrick

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doocarrick, from 390 m² to 223,016 m² (22.3 ha, 55.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Doocarrick 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.

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  for a new forest road entrance and erection of a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1984

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  for a new forest road entrance and erection of a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1976

• 4 Sept 2017Conditional

  to complete existing dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance and all ancillary works (Previous Planning Reference No. 16/314)

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17389

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling (originally Doocarrick School) and replacement with a storey and a half style dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system including mechanical aeration system and percolation area, upgrade existing entrance with new walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17136

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 Doocarrick.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 30.4m) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and a fosse. Only a short segment of the fosse at SE is now identifiable. Elsewhere it has been infilled and replaced by a modern trackway. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that the original entrance may have been at NNE. 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

• CV017-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. 57.5m WNW-ESE; c. 47m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a narrow, deep, partly waterlogged fosse which has been replaced by a modern trench from NE-ESE. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. 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

• CV017-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not marked on any OS ed. but known as a 'fort' (local information). Raised circular area (int. diam. c.26m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a fosse. From SE-S-WSW the perimeter has been much modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Elsewhere it has been levelled but is identifiable as a low scarp. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV017-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 41.8m) enclosed by a substantial but partly denuded earthen bank and a wide, deep, partially waterlogged fosse, infilled from ESE-S and enclosed by a low, possibly modern counterscarp bank from S-SW-W. Break in bank at S may represent original entrance. 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 Doocarrick.

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 10 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 Doocarrick.

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 Doocarrick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Doocarrick · Dubhcharraig

Area

1,336,788 m² (133.68 ha, 330.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ashfield electoral division: 414 people in 135 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barragh, Corweelis, Drumsheil, Fastry or Racreeghan (Co. Monaghan), Killycreeny, Lisnageer

Placenames

Doocarrick 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.