Magheraboy Upper

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheraboy Upper, from 812 m² to 179,707 m² (17.97 ha, 44.41 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Magheraboy Upper 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.

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  to create new domestic entrance from public road, construct new entrance gate, walls and piers and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560432

• 21 Jun 2023Conditional

  to rehabilitate and improve a 800 metre stretch of the Maghera River at Magheraboy Upper, Finea, Co. Cavan. Works will include the removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures. Improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and an NIS has been submitted as part of this application.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23245

• 13 Jun 2023N/a

  to rehabilitate and improve a 800 metre stretch of the Maghera River at Magheraboy Upper, Finea, Co. Cavan. Works will include the removal of some in-stream vegetation, repair and reinstatement of existing in-stream structures. Improvement and alteration of flow dynamics by the construction of deflectors and weirs, reinforcement of the river bank in some locations and the introduction of spawning gravel to improve breeding habitats for trout. Appropriate assessment and an NIS has been submitted as part of this application.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23238

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  Planning permission is sought for (a) construct a two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling, (b) install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area (c) construct attached domestic garage (d) together with all associated site works at Magheraboy Upper, Finea, Co. Cavan on behalf of Garvan Hanley. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360044

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Sheelin SPA 004065
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin 000987

Recorded monuments

• CV041-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated in wet low-lying ground adjacent to Lough Sheelin. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheraboy Upper.

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 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 Magheraboy Upper.

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

Name

Magheraboy Upper

Area

1,127,370 m² (112.74 ha, 278.58 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlumman, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilgolagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgolagh electoral division: 331 people in 122 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick, Magheraboy Lower, Moat, Moydristan

Placenames

Magheraboy 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.