Oghill

128 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oghill, from 33 m² to 124,594 m² (12.46 ha, 30.79 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 Oghill 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.

• 16 Jun 2025Conditional

  to replace existing sewerage treatment system with new on-site treatment unit and new percolation area with revised site boundary and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560307

• 16 Aug 2024Conditional

  for (1) RETENTION of alterations made to floor plans and elevations of dwelling previously approved under Pl. Ref. 9734, (2) PERMISSION to carry out alterations to existing dwelling to provide a first floor level with associated alterations to plans & elevations and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460388

• 31 Jul 2024N/a

  for (1) retention of alterations made to floor plans and elevations of dwelling previously approved under Pl. Ref. 9734, (2) carry out alterations to existing dwelling to provide a first floor level with associated alterations to plans & elevations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460347

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  to construct a new entrance walls, piers and fencing, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22507

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, form new entrance, install sewerage treatment unit, percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2259

• 7 May 2020Conditional

  to erect a fully serviced single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, install sewage treatment system & percolation area and to upgrade existing agricultural entrance and laneway to access same, and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20165

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  of 1) temporary quarrying activities of a 1.9Ha site, to facilitate the ongoing N55 Road re-alignment project. 2) The quarrying activities will include the extraction of rock and processing of aggregates, 3) Restoration and landscaping works 4) and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17339

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 Oghill.

Recorded monuments

• CV031-052 Enclosure
  Description

  Known locally as a 'fort'. Irregular eglongated area (int. dims. 46.3m NNW-SSE; 18.5m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a narrow earthen bank with an external trench and traces of an internal trench. 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

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1855, over disused railway line, now providing private access to a private house. Rubble stone spandrels having cut stone string courses below parapet. Squared rubble stone slightly battered piers and abutments with rock-faced quoins. Elliptical-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs and squared rubble stone barrel. Rubble stone parapets with dressed copings.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Oghill

Area

1,362,241 m² (136.22 ha, 336.62 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintemple, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Drumcarban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarban electoral division: 636 people in 226 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytrust, Corduff, Drumbrade, Drumhawragh, Drumroosk

Placenames

Oghill 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.