Killymacaran

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killymacaran, from 57 m² to 227,879 m² (22.79 ha, 56.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Killymacaran 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.

• 22 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the change of use of existing open storage shed located to rear of existing slatted livestock shed to a dry bedded calving shed to include the provision of R.C. walls, internal pens and a sliding door; construction of a livestock handling yard with concrete base, associated cattle crush and holding pens together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460512

• 17 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the change of use of existing two-storey lofted out-building to provide habitable rooms to be used as part of existing adjacent two-storey dwelling house; provision of single storey link between the out-building and the dwelling house; upgrade of existing septic tank to a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460268

• 17 Apr 2024N/a

  for the development of the change of use of existing two-storey lofted out-building to provide habitable rooms to be used as part of existing adjacent two-storey dwelling house; provision of single storey link between the out-building and the dwelling house; upgrade of existing septic tank to a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460150

• 21 Mar 2024N/a

  for the change of use of existing two-storey lofted out-building to provide habitable rooms to be used as part of the existing adjacent two-storey dwelling house; provision of single storey link between the out-building and the dwelling house together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460102

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killymacaran.

Recorded monuments

• CV023-025001 Church
  Description

  Possible early church site situated in a small hollow beside Annalee River. Recorded by Barron (1942, 120-1) who found 'a stone with incised arcs' at the site (CV023-025002-). Not visible at ground level. 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

• CV023-025002 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Fragment of a decorated stone discovered in a small hollow beside the River Annalee and on the site of a possible early church (CV023-025001-). According to Barron (1942, 120-1) it was dearly portion of a longer slab, formerly decorated with groups of six-petalled rosettes enclosed in circles, of which only one complete and one half rosette is visible on the surviving fragment. Now in the National Museum. 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

• Miller's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former miller's house, built c.1820, now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles altered to have oversailing verges, ashlar chimneystacks over gables now rendered, replacement rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to front façade, roughcast rendered walls to other elevations with hammer dressed block-and start ashlar quoins, now rendered over but exposed on the north gable. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes, stone sills, and plain reveals. Windows in upper storey of gables set towards rear, symmetrical rear elevation with central upper floor window and two at ground level. Wide entrance doorway with side-lights on sills, and glazed overlight. Raised and fielded four panelled door. Set back from road and parallel to it behind low square-profile piers and walls.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Killymacaran.

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

Name

Killymacaran

Area

2,249,169 m² (224.92 ha, 555.78 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Knappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knappagh electoral division: 487 people in 160 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annafarney, Carrickcreeny, Corraghy, Crilea, Darkley, Druminnick, Drumlom, Mullybrack

Placenames

Killymacaran 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.