# Fortland, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymachugh, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,634,201 m² (163.42 ha, 403.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,611 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymachugh, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/ballymachugh.md - Barony: Clanmahon - Electoral division: Ballymachugh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 838 people lived in 276 households in the Ballymachugh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4450 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21110 - Centre: latitude 53.832573, longitude -7.314333 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortland, from 70 m² to 165,798 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 481013: 165,798 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481013.md - Parcel 445648: 163,545 m² (16.35 ha, 40.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445648.md - Parcel 452600: 128,308 m² (12.83 ha, 31.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/452600.md - Parcel 477742: 112,563 m² (11.26 ha, 27.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477742.md - Parcel 486315: 80,689 m² (8.07 ha, 19.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486315.md - Parcel 475695: 71,772 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475695.md - Parcel 455649: 65,645 m² (6.56 ha, 16.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455649.md - Parcel 488929: 64,830 m² (6.48 ha, 16.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488929.md - Parcel 460373: 62,979 m² (6.3 ha, 15.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/460373.md - Parcel 486193: 62,371 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486193.md - Parcel 477669: 58,513 m² (5.85 ha, 14.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477669.md - Parcel 478009: 57,992 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478009.md - Parcel 475113: 53,945 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475113.md - Parcel 476437: 48,712 m² (4.87 ha, 12.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476437.md - Parcel 455261: 47,748 m² (4.77 ha, 11.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455261.md - Parcel 5737529: 44,920 m² (4.49 ha, 11.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5737529.md - Parcel 485223: 42,886 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485223.md - Parcel 455651: 42,143 m² (4.21 ha, 10.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/455651.md - Parcel 461298: 36,052 m² (3.61 ha, 8.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/461298.md - Parcel 485161: 28,963 m² (2.9 ha, 7.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485161.md - Parcel 5737570: 26,583 m² (2.66 ha, 6.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5737570.md - Parcel 476772: 24,460 m² (2.45 ha, 6.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476772.md - Parcel 474150: 16,435 m² (1.64 ha, 4.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474150.md - Parcel 472454: 11,337 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472454.md - Parcel 487331: 9,977 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487331.md - Parcel 480698: 9,239 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/480698.md - Parcel 490761: 6,091 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490761.md - Parcel 491678: 5,611 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/491678.md - Parcel 484160: 4,973 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/484160.md - Parcel 478869: 4,560 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478869.md - Parcel 435458: 4,169 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435458.md - Parcel 3990415: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3990415.md - Parcel 3990435: 3,788 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3990435.md - Parcel 440418: 3,702 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/440418.md - Parcel 6037480: 3,651 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6037480.md - Parcel 489935: 3,586 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489935.md - Parcel 484830: 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/484830.md - Parcel 456598: 2,443 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456598.md - Parcel 433616: 2,417 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433616.md - Parcel 434113: 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434113.md - Parcel 470671: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/470671.md - Parcel 1522074: 1,993 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522074.md - Parcel 492204: 1,763 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/492204.md - Parcel 461369: 1,589 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/461369.md - Parcel 455898: 1,588 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/455898.md - Parcel 5737592: 1,550 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5737592.md - Parcel 1522073: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522073.md - Parcel 434084: 1,116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/434084.md - Parcel 457139: 956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/457139.md - Parcel 481215: 777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/481215.md - Parcel 451016: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/451016.md - Parcel 491007: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/491007.md - Parcel 455826: 215 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/455826.md - Parcel 484654: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/484654.md - Parcel 442259: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/442259.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Fortland 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) 11 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2026, Cavan County Council 2660212: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a two-storey dwelling, a single storey detached domestic garage and install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area, together with all associated site works, at Fortland, Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan, on behalf of Orna Cassells. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning authority with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660212/0 - 21 May 2025, Cavan County Council 2560244: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 1) To demolish a domestic shed and extension to the side and rear of existing two storied dwelling house, 2) To construct a part two storied, part single storied extension to the rear of the dwelling house including internal and external alterations to the house, 3) To close up and decommission an existing septic tank and soak pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 4) All ancillary sites development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560244/0 - 16 May 2025, Cavan County Council 2560242: N/a. Permission. 1) To demolish a domestic shed and extension to the side and rear of existing two storied dwelling house, 2) To construct a part two storied, part single storied extension to the rear of the dwelling house including internal and external alterations to the house, 3) To close up and decommission an existing septic tank and soak pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 4) All ancillary sites development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560242/0 - 7 Sept 2022, Cavan County Council 22365: Refused. Extension of duration. EXTENSION OF DURATION of 17/367: to construct a five bay slatted shed with an underground slurry holding tank and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22365/0 - 10 Nov 2021, Cavan County Council 21682: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for alterations & dormer extension to side elevation of the existing dwelling to include entrance hall, utility room, toilet, kitchen, pantry, dining, living area and at first floor, a bedroom, dressing and bathroom. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21682/0 - 3 Nov 2021, Cavan County Council 21664: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and ancillary site services and development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21664/0 - 22 Jun 2021, Cavan County Council 21379: Conditional. Permission. construct silage pit with retaining walls and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21379/0 - 14 Jun 2021, Cavan County Council 21372: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct dwelling house and domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and ancillary site services and development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21372/0 - 13 Dec 2017, Cavan County Council 17521: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct new entrance walls, piers, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17521/0 - 21 Aug 2017, Cavan County Council 17367: Conditional. Permission. to construct a five bay slatted shed with an underground slurry holding tank and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17367/0 - 18 Aug 2017, Cavan County Council 17361: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to decommission and relocate the existing septic tank as constructed under PL64/7401 and permission to construct a new sewage treatment plant and percolation area within the boundary of my existing site and attached ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17361/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Lough Sheelin SPA, site code 004065, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004065 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin, site code 000987 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV038-026: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-026----. Large raised circular area (int. diam. 71m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a fosse which is identifiable from W-N-E. Original entrance not recognisable. Situated within a former tree plantation. Site is not marked on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. 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 - CV038-027: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-027----. Raised circular area (int. diam. 33m) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide, deep intermediate fosse. A modern field boundary merges with the outer face of the counterscarp bank at SE. Breaks in banks with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. (CUCAP ALJ 74) 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 - CV038-028: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-028----. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 68m) enclosed by a low earthen bank which is no longer identifiable from NE-SE. Original entrance not recognisable. The rath has been planted with trees. 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 - CV038-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-029----. Raised circular area (int. diam. 38m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Break in bank at N may represent original entrance. (CUCAP ALJ 77) 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 - CV038-030: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-030----. Large circular area (int. diam. 102m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse identifiable only in SE quadrant. A modern drain occurs at the external foot of bank in NE quadrant. The site is divided into four roughly equal portions by a crossroads. The NW and SW quadrants have been levelled and no surface remains are now identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. The site was formerly utilised as a tree-ring. (CUCAP ALJ 77) 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 - CV038-031: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV038-031----. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 41m) enclosed by a very low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse outside of which is an apparently modern low counterscarp bank. An earlier report (OPW 1970) suggested that the original entrance may have been at ENE. (CUCAP ALJ 73) 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) - Gate lodge, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 40403807, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40403807. Detached single-storey with dormer attic gate lodge, built c.1830, with principal gabled elevation facing to drive, windbreak to largely unfenestrated road elevation, late-nineteenth century addition forming L-plan with unfenestrated gable at roadside. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, oversailing verge with bargeboards, and timber brackets forming broken pediment facing drive. Concrete barge coping to addition and forming roof of windbreak. Central rendered brick chimneystacks to lodge and addition, steel rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls, random rubble to gable of addition. Square-headed window openings, widened to north gable, attic having bipartite six-pane casement window with timber mullion, all with limestone sills. Timber boarded doors with limestone thresholds. Corrugated-iron lean-to and outbuilding to rear of addition. Opens onto forecourt enclosed by convex quadrant wing of gate screen, comprising cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials on ashlar plinth, double-leaf demesne gates in ashlar piers, symmetrical quadrant to north of gates, rubble stone wall between south pier and gable of addition. Wrought-iron gate encloses site of gate lodge inside demesne gates. ## 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 Fortland, about 1 in 10 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 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 Fortland. - 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/fortland.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/fortland.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/fortland.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortland 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) - Crover: https://everytownland.com/cavan/crover.md - Lavagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lavagh.md - Lisduff: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisduff-21495.md - Omard: https://everytownland.com/cavan/omard.md - Turin: https://everytownland.com/cavan/turin.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/fortland - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/fortland