Mountprospect

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountprospect, from 910 m² to 128,539 m² (12.85 ha, 31.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Mountprospect 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.

• 14 Jan 2022Conditional

  of the existing gravel surfaced carpark located to the east of the existing dwelling, the retention of the new access to the carpark from the existing driveway, the retention of the higher capacity wastewater treatment system than that granted under planning reg. ref 21/60 and all associated site works above and below ground associated with the retained development

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 226

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a detached single storey pitched roof domestic garage constructed to the rear of the existing dwelling and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate the development

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21332

• 15 Feb 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of the following; (1) Change of use of existing playschool building to ancillary residential use, (2) PERMISSION of (a) RETENTION of existing extended areas at ground and first floor levels to side and rear of existing building plus RETENTION of alterations and amendments to the existing elevations, (b) RETENTION of detached single storey building to rear of existing dwelling used for storage, (c) RETENTION of new site entrance, access roadway and car park area to east of site, (d) Revised site layout and associated works from that previously granted under 97/396, 01/53 & 03/347, (e) PERMISSION sought for single storey link between existing dwelling and building to which change of use applies, (3) Full Planning PERMISSION is sought for (a) single storey link between existing dwelling and building to which change of use applies, (b) installation of new effluent treatment system and percolation area to serve the dwelling and (c) all associated site development works, significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2160

• 24 Mar 2020N/a

  of development consisting of the following; (a) RETENTION of existing extended area at ground and first floor levels to side and rear of existing playschool incorporating classroom, toilet and office on ground floor and storage on first floor. RETENTION of alterations and amendments to the existing elevations, (b) RETENTION of detached single store building to rear of existing playschool incorporating indoor play area and storage, (c) RETENTION of new site entrance, access roadway and car park area to east of site and (d) Revised site layout and associated works from that previously granted under 97/396, 01/53 & 03/347

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 20105

• 5 Jan 2018Conditional

  to retain detached domestic garage constructed to side of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1815

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 Mountprospect.

Recorded monuments

• CV038-051 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• CV038-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1970) noted an external bank with traces of an outer fosse and suggested that the original entrance may have been at ESE. 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 Mountprospect.

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountprospect.

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

Name

Mountprospect

Area

1,420,413 m² (142.04 ha, 350.99 acres)

Civil parish

Castlerahan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Castlerahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlerahan electoral division: 897 people in 311 households; 92% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barconny (Massereene), Barconny (Robinson), Castlerahan, Cornamucklagh, Lismacanigan Lower

Placenames

Mountprospect 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.