Gneeve
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 91.6 ha
- 226 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 16,001 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gneeve, from 1,358 m² to 155,506 m² (15.55 ha, 38.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Oct 2025Conditional
for the following : (1) Construction of single storey dwelling (2) Agricultural machinery / animal feed stuff storage shed (3) On site sewerage treatment unit and percolation area (4) All ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560595
4 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct a walled silage base, with concrete apron and a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17302
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 Gneeve.
Recorded monuments
- CV042-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 62m) enclosed by a wide, low bank from WSW-N. From N-E the site is bounded by a tributary of the Upper Inny River and has been much defaced as a consequence of river drainage works. From E-S-WSW the perimeter has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. Internal area is divided into two unequal portions by a field boundary running ESE-WSW. 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
- Ballinrink Bridge, bridge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span limestone road bridge, built c.1870, spanning Upper Inny River, and incorporating remains of earlier bridge. Random-coursed squared and snecked rock-faced spandrels, parapet and coping. Regular rock-faced voussoirs to arch ring with dressed underside and arris, squared rubble barrel on large squared-rubble abutments with impost course and skewback. Flanked by single buttres slanting to base to north-east. Partially-rendered wall to north-east from earlier bridge with segmental arch having irregular limestone voussoirs.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Gneeve.
- 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 Gneeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Gneeve
- Area
- 916,040 m² (91.6 ha, 226.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 998 people in 338 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinrink (Co. Meath), Bobsgrove, Clontyduffy (Nugent), Enagh
- Placenames
- Gneeve 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.