Inch Island

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Inch Island, from 399,457 m² (39.95 ha, 98.71 acres) to 399,457 m² (39.95 ha, 98.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 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 Inch Island 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Inch Island in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV019-036001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise at the NW edge of the plateau of Inch Island. A large circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 100m; int. diam. c. 80m) defined by a wide enclosing feature (Wth c. 10-15m) or two features is depicted on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a 'Old Fort'. It is depicted as enclosed by a single field bank on the 1908 edition. It was described as a subcircular area (dims 32m x c. 26m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse in 1942 (SMR file). The larger area was excluded from forestry established c. 2008 but the area is now overgrown (Google Earth). 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: 22 December 2008 Amended: 18 March 2021

• CV019-036002 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inch Island.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, 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 Inch Island.

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

Name

Inch Island · Inis

Area

398,403 m² (39.84 ha, 98.45 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Killykeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killykeen electoral division: 646 people in 215 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Placenames

Inch Island 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.