Dooreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Drumgoon, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 215.4 ha
- 532 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 29,725 m² (2.97 ha, 7.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooreagh, from 68 m² to 179,307 m² (17.93 ha, 44.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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
No zone of a development plan covers Dooreagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Dec 2025Conditional
to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, form new entrance onto private lane, install proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560726
31 Oct 2024Conditional
to construct a new dormer style dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460549
25 Oct 2024N/a
to construct a new dormer style dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460535
21 Dec 2023Refused
to construct a new two-storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360331
7 Dec 2023Conditional
To construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks, 2 no. uncovered slatted underground storage tanks, demolish existing shed and replace with new calf shed, alterations to existing milking parlour and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360302
16 Jun 2023Conditional
to construct a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23241
16 Aug 2021Conditional
1) retention permission for the unauthorised conversion of a former stable to habitable use, 2) construction of a new single storey extension to the former stable building, 3) construction of a new single storey extension to the side of the main dwelling house, 4) removal of existing front entrance porch to the main dwelling house and replacement with a new entrance porch and 5) de-commissioning of the existing septic tank and replacement with a new wastewater treatment plant
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21509
9 Aug 2021N/a
to retain an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 10/158) together with associated ground equipment cabinets with fencing and access track
Retention · Cavan County Council, 21501
30 Mar 2021Conditional
for 1. the construction of a new two storey type dwelling house, 2. New vehicular site entrance onto a public roadway, 3. Installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, 4. Completion of all associated and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21179
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 Dooreagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dooreagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooreagh.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dooreagh.
- 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 Dooreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Dooreagh
- Area
- 2,153,534 m² (215.35 ha, 532.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumgoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Canningstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Canningstown electoral division: 543 people in 204 households; 95% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornasaus, Drutamon, Gallon Etra, Knocknashammer, Labbinlee, Muff, Tievenanass, Tonyhull
- Placenames
- Dooreagh 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.