Paddock

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Paddock, from 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 4,323 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Paddock 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.

• 1 Jul 2024Refused

  to erect a fully serviced two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, form entrance, install sewage treatment facilities, siteworks and all ancillary works at Paddock, Farnham, Co. Cavan. Planning reference 19154 relates to this site

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460297

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19154

• 11 Jan 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 194

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  (1) change of use of existing two-storey outbuilding from ancillary hotel use to restaurant use with a floor area of 262.5 sq.m including internal and external modifications to the existing protected structure, including the introduction of external emergency escape stairs; (2) new single storey extension of 42 sq.m which will be used to connect the new restaurant to the main hotel building; including all associated site works at Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Resort (protected structure)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17546

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of (1) demolition/removal of existing 4 no. portacabins consisting of changing rooms, toilets and golf shop; (2) new single storey golf clubhouse with a floor area of 346sqm consisting of changing rooms, refreshment area and associated retail space with access from existing car park, including all associated site works. All at Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Resort, Farnham, Co. Cavan (Protected Structure)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17547

• 1 Mar 2017Conditional

  for change of use of part of existing dwelling house to B&B accommodation with new extension to rear incorporating nine en-suite bedrooms, dining area, kitchens, laundry room, reception with car parking, upgrade existing entrance with new sewerage treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1767

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 Paddock.

Recorded monuments

• CV020-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the summit of a long, narrow drumlin ridge. Although site has been levelled, the outline of a bank and fosse is still identifiable enclosing a slightly raised circular area (int. diam. c. 32m). Earlier reports (OPW 1968 and 1969) 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

• CV020-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on all OS eds. Situated on the S slope of a long drumlin ridge. Although levelled, the outline of an earthen bank and a fosse may still be identified defining a circular area (int. diam. c. 28m). Earlier reports (OPW 1968 and 1969) suggested that the original entrance was probably at E. 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

• Radisson BLU Farnham Estate Hotel, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, with large return, side entrance through opening in flanking side wall to north. Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with deep oversailing eaves having timber soffit supported by paired timber brackets. Rendered stacks to rear wall and return. Squared and snecked quarry faced cut-stone walls with large corner stones. Red brick block-and-start surrounds and cut-stone sills to bipartite multiple-pane timber casement windows, segmental-arched recesses with similar brick surrounds to taller ground floor windows. Bipartite two-over-two timber sash windows to upper level of north elevation facing over demesne wall to road. Set back from road behind high gate screen.

• Radisson BLU Farnham Estate Hotel, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gate screen, built c.1840, now disused. Square-profile cut stone gate piers with moulded stone cornice detail and chamfered plinth. Wrought-iron gates with fluer-de-lys finials to balusters and dog-bars, scrollwork beneath top rail. Gate piers flanked by high rubble stone wall with half-barrel rubble stone coping and having integral square-headed pedestrian side entrance with sheeted timber door to east. Framed by quadrant screen walls with rubble stone end piers.

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone road bridge, built c.1800, carrying public road over private road. Squared rubble stone abutments, spandrels and low parapet. Segmental arch with cut-stone voussoirs, roughly squared rubble stone barrel with remains of render. Squared rubble stone to long wing-walls supporting the approach road.

• Battleaxe Gate Lodge, gate lodge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor Gothic revival L-plan three-bay single-storey with dormer attic former gate lodge, built c.1855, with central gabled breakfront entrance flanked by parapeted canted window bays. Replacement pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves and verge, plain replacement bargeboards with historic spiked finial to entrance and gable ends. Rendered chimneystacks with chamfered corners and cornice. Rendered walls with moulded parapets to canted bay windows. Mullioned and transomed openings to bay windows with with interlaced hexagonal glazing bar pattern and chamfered sills. Replacement uPVC to other windows. Central door in moulded stucco surround with panelled timber door. Set back from the road inside gatescreen of elaborate cast-iron design.

• Battleaxe Gate Lodge, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron gate screen, built c.1855. Cast-iron piers composed of groups of nine battleaxes with shafts bound with bundles of rods on moulded stone plinth, battleaxe heads forming top of piers held together by guilloche-patterned binding. Double-leaf gates decorated with floral and foliated patterns, husks to bars, fleur-de-lys finials, and battleaxe-head finial to slam bar. Gates flanked by screen of railings of identical design. Outer rendered gate piers surmounted by quadruped ironwork pedestals with baronial coronets representing the rank of Baron Farnham. Roughcast rendered quadrant screen walls with low railings.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2051 (ZIP).

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

Name

Paddock

Area

1,322,493 m² (132.25 ha, 326.8 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Cavan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavan Rural electoral division: 8,747 people in 2,931 households; 59% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breandrum, Coras Point, Drumbar, Drumconnick, Drumlaunaght, Drumlion, Drummonum, Farnham, Kilmore Lower, Tonymore

Placenames

Paddock 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.