Larchfield Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Enniskeen, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 20.4 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 2,103 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- General Enterprise and Employment
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Larchfield Glebe, from 172 m² to 72,112 m² (7.21 ha, 17.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
- C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 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
23 Dec 2025N/a
to : a) construct a 4 no. fully serviced industrial units, b) together with all associated roadways, footpaths, storage yards, landscaping & connections to services, c) erect signage, d) erect new roadside boundary fence and entrance gate, e) and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560772
15 Jul 2025Conditional
to (a) retain 4 no. existing precast concrete production unit (b) block up existing car park entrance and form new main entrance from public road, new internal service road, enlarged car park & truck parking area, extend existing hard standing yard area, install new sewage treatment unit and percolation area together with all associated site works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560392
4 Mar 2021N/a
for development consisting of RETENTION Permission for the following: 1. Stoned area to provide additional car and trailer parking associated with current use, 2. Stoned area to provide access to surface water tanks, 3. Filling of lands with soil and stone waste and all associated site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Retention · Cavan County Council, 21113
12 Oct 2020N/a
for development consisting of RETENTION PERMISSION for stoned area to rear of existing carpark, to provided trailer parking associated with current use and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20451
14 Sept 2020Conditional
for the installation of photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of existing buildings and associated works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 20420
29 Nov 2017Conditional
for development consisting of the installation of approximately 9km of 38 kV underground electricity transmission cable from the permitted (wind farm) substation (County Cavan Planning Register Reference 16/74 & An Bord Pleanala Reference PL02.247401) across private lands and within the public roads numbered L7553, L3524, L3525, L3526, R165, L7612, L3536, L7611, R164, R162 and L7561. This Planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report/Environmental Impact Statement. The cable will be installed predominantly in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; ducting across the length of span of 2 no. bridges/culverts and directional drilling at 2 no. bridges/culverts; and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The proposed development is part of a larger overall development which will involve the installation of approximately 13km of underground electricity transmission cable from the permitted (wind farm) substation in the townland of Taghart South, County Cavan to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Meath Hill, County Meath and also extends into lands in the townlands of Drumgill, Cornahoova, Corratober, Ardagh and Meath Hill, County Meath, and installed within R165, L74021 and L7408 within the adjoining planning authority jurisdiction of Meath County Council. A concurrent planning application for that part of the overall development located within County Meath has been submitted to Meath County Council. This Planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report/Environmental Impact Statement which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary development which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to County Cavan Planning Register Reference 16/74 & An Bord Pleanala Reference PL02.247401. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17502
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 Larchfield Glebe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Larchfield Glebe.
Architectural heritage
- Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built 1816, with single-bay two-storey return to east, recent single-storey lean-to to west. Now in use as private dwelling. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, pair of red brick chimneystacks to gable ends of rear pitch and red brick chimneystack to central valley. Cast-iron rainwater goods, overhanging eaves and recent timber bargeboards with red brick chimneystack to return. Coursed rubble stone walls with stone stringcourse to ground floor. Replacement timber windows with red brick surrounds and stone sills to first and ground floor. Stone ashlar surrounds to replacement timber windows to basement. Round-headed opening to main entrance with plain fanlight and replacement timber door approached by stone steps. Oriel window to rear, c.1920, resting on stone corbels. Round-headed multiple pane timber sliding sash window to stairwell on east elevation with recent timber door to ground floor. Detached three-bay two-storey rubble stone outbuilding with integral carriage arch, pitched slate roof, ashlar surrounds to openings and timber sheeted doors. Forged gates and rubble-stone piers flanked by quadrant walls to entrance.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Larchfield Glebe.
- 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 Larchfield Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Larchfield Glebe
- Area
- 203,859 m² (20.39 ha, 50.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Enniskeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Kingscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kingscourt electoral division: 3,705 people in 1,231 households; 66% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corgarry, Drumgill (Co. Meath), Enniskeen, Lisasturrin, Lisnahederna
- Placenames
- Larchfield Glebe 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.