Kilnaglare Upper

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilnaglare Upper, from 19 m² to 27,676 m² (2.77 ha, 6.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 93 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  for alterations to finished floor levels and site levels of houses 1-6 (6 no. two-storey 5-bedroom detached dwellings) previously approved under Pl. Ref. 19/472 and extended under Pl. Ref. 25/37 and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560689

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  for EXTENSION OF DURATION of 19/472 to erect 6 no. Storey & a half style (Detached 5-bed dwellings) together with entrances, footpath, connect to existing foul sewer, surface water sewer, water main, landscaping, boundary treatments and all associated works, Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Extension of duration, 6 homes · Cavan County Council, 2537

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  for (1) erection of a two storey extension to the front of the existing dwelling (2) conversion of existing attic to form habitable space (3) alterations to existing floor plans & elevations (4) all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2374

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  to erect 1 no. fully serviced residential block containing 5 no. 2 storey townhouses, with basement accommodation. Alterations to existing site layout. Proposed carparking, access via service road, connection to public foul & storm water sewers, public watermains and all ancillary site works. Significant further information including a Natura Impact Statement and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21673

• 12 May 2021Conditional

  to erect fully serviced single storey extensions to side of existing dwelling with associated alterations to elevations, new detached domestic garage & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21268

• 27 Nov 2019Conditional

  to erect 6 no. Storey & a half style (Detached 5-bed dwellings) together with entrances, footpath, connect to existing foul sewer, surface water sewer, water main, landscaping, boundary treatments and all associated works, Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19472

• 3 Jul 2019N/a

  for a development consisting of the construction of 10 no. two-storey 3-bedroom semi-detached dwellings together with entrances, footpath, connection to existing foul sewer, surface water sewer, water main and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19255

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced single storey dwelling with entrance, connection to public services and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19233

• 15 Mar 2017Conditional

  to convert existing 2 storey detached building to form hairdressing salons on ground & first floor and all ancillary accommodation & alterations to elevations, connections to existing services and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1790

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 Kilnaglare Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CV015-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.4m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse outside of which is a well-defined counterscarp bank running from SW-NW. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. 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

• Saint Aidan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1861-63, with five-bay nave and side aisles terminating in semi-circular apse, off centre octagonal-profile belfry rising from entrance gable, flanking single-storey open porches to front elevation, transept-like gabled bay to each side aisle, sacristy to north of apse. Pitched roof to nave and transept bays, single pitched roofs to aisle roofs, half conical roof to apse, slated spire to belfry, all in bands of blue and purple slate, with decorative ironwork ridge cresting above chancel only, cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Yellow sandstone walls with grey limestone dressing to openings and corners, having limestone banding to side and rear elevations. Belfry having trefoil arcade on foliated columns. Coloured brick voussoirs to relieving arches above limestone framed openings. Three lancet windows with stained glass to entrance elevation. Triple-trefoil windows above side entrances. Lancet windows to side elevation bays in combinations of two and three with simple leaded glazing, trefoil lancets at transept with rose window above. Sacristy double window with single small arch centred above limestone lintel. Square-headed openings to entrance and sacristy doors with timber sheeted leaves. Side aisles separated internally by cast-iron columns with foliated capitals standing on masonry plinths. Compartmented ceiling with recent boarded infill. Trefoil arch to chancel resting on shallow wall brackets. Radiating compartments to sloped apse ceiling with flat compartmented centre area. Stained glass windows to chancel and entrance elevation. Decorative timber balcony on timber brackets framed in profiled arch over entrance porch. Geometric red, yellow, and green floor tiles to aisles. White marble raised altar floor. Altar, reredos, and side altars of white marble with pink marble elements and yellow marble inlays, all in Gothic Revival style. Gothic style font, ambo, and seat of similar marble. Bounded by cast-iron railings having cross finials, cast-iron posts, and ironwork piers, flanking single- and double-leaf gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to south.

• Creamery, 1930–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey corrugated-iron former creamery, built c.1935. Pitched corrugated roof, roll-mould ridge, oversailed verges with timber barge boards and eaves. Three ventilation ridge cowls, two retaining conical hoods, one having decorative onion finial. Metal gutters and down pipes. Corrugated-iron walls with conical-headed fixings, set on rendered masonry plinth. Damaged corner reveals steel vertical structural profile behind. Sliding metal double-leaf doors to delivery platform on southern gable. Double-leaf timber doors to main elevation with five-pane overlight. Three windows on east elevation with top-hung and side-hung casements. Further window to west elevation concealed by corrugated metal cladding. Interior with timber sheeting to walls and ceiling. Historic storage tank and office to the south end, original machinery at high level to north wall. Concrete external steps and platform to south end.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2068 (ZIP).

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

Name

Kilnaglare Upper

Area

232,396 m² (23.24 ha, 57.43 acres)

Civil parish

Castleterra, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Butler's Bridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Butler's Bridge electoral division: 501 people in 192 households; 77% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrygarra Lower, Derrygarra Upper, Drummany, Inishbeg, Kilnaglare Lower, Tullybuck

Placenames

Kilnaglare Upper 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.