Enagh
Townland in the civil parish of Loughan or Castlekeeran, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 148.6 ha
- 367 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 3,730 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Enagh, from 280 m² to 241,049 m² (24.1 ha, 59.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Enagh 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
13 Jul 2025Conditional
for RETENTION of the construction of a single storey pitched roof 2 bedroom detached dwelling, with new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and new side and rear boundary fencing and Planning PERMISSION for the construction of a new vehicular entrance and roadside boundary fencing and all necessary ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560385
25 Jun 2025N/a
for the construction of a single storey pitched roof 2 bedroom detached dwelling, with new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and new side and rear boundary fencing and Planning Permission for the construction of a new vehicular entrance and roadside boundary fencing and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560334
6 Nov 2024Conditional
to construct a single storey extension to existing dwelling and a detached domestic garage, install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area, upgrade existing entrance off public road, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460557
1 Aug 2024Conditional
to construct a single storey style replacement dwelling while utilising walls of existing derelict dwelling and convert to use as a garage, upgrade junction between existing private laneway and public road, including revised access to agricultural land, install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460351
9 Nov 2022Conditional
to convert existing attached domestic garage for use as an Occupational Therapy Suite. The works will include minor internal alterations and the replacement of the existing rear garage doors with new swing doors
Permission · Cavan County Council, 22454
20 Jun 2022Conditional
to construct a family flat single extension to the side of existing dwelling, alter external finishes on dwelling house upgrade original sewage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 22258
6 Apr 2022Conditional
sought for changes to windows, doors, chimneys, external finishes, treatment system and percolcation area, location, open-plan attic space over main house and garage, additional rear rooflight, detached gym, second entrance, (prev. planning ref. no. 02/126)
Retention · Cavan County Council, 22132
10 Feb 2021Conditional
construct extension to the north west side of the existing dwelling house and to construct a waste water treatment system and percolation area in replacement of existing septic tank system, together with all works ancillary to the overall development
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2153
17 Jun 2020Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION 15/337: to construct a two storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage, form new entrance from public road, install proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20225
17 Jun 2020Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION 15/336: to construct a two storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage, form new entrance from public road, install proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20226
16 Apr 2020Conditional
to (a) construct a single storey extension to south west elevation of existing dwelling house, (b) RETAIN detached domestic garage, (c) RETAIN detached games room and (d) together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20139
14 Aug 2019Conditional
for the construction of a new single storey 3 bedroom detached dwelling, waste water treatment plant and percolation area, new shared vehicular entrance and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development. The new shared vehicular entrance provides access to the adjoining lands for the landowner
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19314
14 Nov 2018Conditional
to retain alterations and site location of existing domestic garage
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18475
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 Enagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Enagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Enagh.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Enagh.
- 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 Enagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Enagh
- Area
- 1,486,339 m² (148.63 ha, 367.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughan or Castlekeeran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Virginia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bruse, Carrigasimon, Edenburt, Fartagh, Lisduff
- Placenames
- Enagh 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.