Plush

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plush, from 53 m² to 79,519 m² (7.95 ha, 19.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Plush 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.

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  for RETENTION and continued alterations PERMISSION for previously approved development (Ref. No. 22/516) at Plush, Cloverhill, Co. Cavan involving a protected structure (RPS No. CV0698) including amendments to the layout and rear elevation to facilitate the omission of a previously approved extension and revert back to the original dwelling footprint. Also included is a new dormer window to the rear roof, a window / door to the proposed kitchen and insulated lime render to the facades

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660249

• 6 May 2026N/a

  for retention and continued alterations permission for previously approved development (Ref. No. 22/516) at Plush, Cloverhill, Co. Cavan involving a protected structure (RPS No. CV0698) including amendments to the layout and rear elevation to facilitate the omission of a previously approved extension and revert back to the original dwelling footprint. Also included is a new dormer window to the rear roof, a window / door to the proposed kitchen and insulated lime render to the facades

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660227

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660083

• 28 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to existing workshop, connection to existing services and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360203

• 22 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling, realignment of the boundary treatment to the front of the property, upgrade of existing waste treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360150

• 16 Dec 2022Refused

  to erect fully serviced part single storey part storey & half type dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22515

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  to carry out works to a protected structure as listed int the Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a local area plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Ref: CV0698. To include conservation works to the fabric of the existing dwelling including walls, roof and windows, thermal upgrade of building envelope, upgrade of mechanical and electrical installations, demolition of non-original extension to the rear, demolition of attached agricultural structure to the side, construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the property, realignment of the boundary treatment to the front of the property, upgrade of existing waste treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22516

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  for two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22276

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  erect fully serviced bungalow type dwelling with detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment unit, entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22102

• 22 Dec 2021N/a

  to erect fully serviced bungalow type dwelling with detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment unit, entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21772

• 16 Jun 2021Refused

  erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21358

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  to demolish a derelict out-building and construct a domestic garage with associated site services and development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20565

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV015-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not marked on any OS ed. Raised circular area(int. diam. c. 32m) enclosed by fragmentary remains of a low earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. The site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field boundary running NW-SE, the NE portion of which has been levelled leaving only the outline identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. Densely overgrown with vegetation. 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

• Farm house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1850, with lean-to extension to rear. Pitched artifical slate roof, dormer window to centre of west elevation, brick chimneystack to ridge, timber bargeboards, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber one-over-one sashes with side margin panes and stone sills to front elevation. Recent window to dormer. Six-over-six sash window to south and one-over-one sash window to north gable with stone sills. Double-leaf timber panelled door with fixed overlight. Rubble stone outbuilding with barrel corrugated-iron roof attached to south gable. Forged pedestrian gate at gable. Rubble stone outbuildings to north with corrugated iron roof. Forged metal gate to road. Rubble stone boundary wall to road.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2067 (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 Plush with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Plush · Achadh Dhoire Pluis

Area

924,142 m² (92.41 ha, 228.36 acres)

Civil parish

Castleterra, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Butler's Bridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Butler's Bridge electoral division: 501 people in 192 households; 77% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumcrow, Drumharid, Inishbeg, Keeny, Kilnaglare Lower, Kilnaleck

Placenames

Plush 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.