Marahill

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marahill, from 367 m² to 158,978 m² (15.9 ha, 39.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Marahill 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.

• 3 Mar 2026Conditional

  to demolish the existing silage pit and replace it with a calf shed. Also construct a roofed manure pit and all associated site works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 268

• 29 Jan 2020Conditional

  to retain bay window and rear extension to existing dwelling house & all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2027

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

• CV024-062 Mill - unclassified
  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.

• CV025-093001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Rectangular area (int. dims.28m NNW-SSE; 15m WSW-ENE) enclosed by a slight bank of earth and stone except at NNW where it is bounded by a field bank with a modern external trench. A number of large boulders lie along the perimeter of the enclosure on three sides. Recorded by Davies (1948, 110). 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

• CV025-093002 Church
  Description

  Davies (1948, 110) speculated that this children's burial ground (CV025-093001-) is probably an early church site. No visible remains of a church at ground levels. 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

• CV025-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a broad rocky ridge in otherwise low-lying wet marshy land. Davies (ITA Survey 1940) describes it as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 22.85m) enclosed by a semicircular portion of bank composed mainly of small chips of stone with a less extensive fosse. He speculated that this was a waterside type rath, one side of which is bounded by bog probably representing an extinct lake. Not located. 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

• CV025-095 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Depicted as a circular enclosure on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated in wet marshy ground adjacent to what is apparently an extinct lake. Low cairn of small and medium-sized stones (H 0.3m; dims. 16.1m E-W; 12.2m N-S). 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

• CV025-125 Enclosure
  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 Marahill.

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 high, 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 Marahill.

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

Name

Marahill

Area

1,480,204 m² (148.02 ha, 365.77 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Crossdoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Drumgoon, Drummora Great, Gartinardress, Slanore

Placenames

Marahill 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.