Pottahee

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pottahee, from 72 m² to 98,812 m² (9.88 ha, 24.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Pottahee 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.

• 22 May 2026N/a

  to retain and continue alterations to existing church grounds for the purposes of forming new vehicular entrance to the rear of existing church building, construct new entrance walls and piers and carry out associated site and ancillary works (protected structure/listed building

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2617

• 5 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660097

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, upgrade existing entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21762

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  for an extension to existing clubrooms and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21485

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of an increase in the overall height of existing handball alley and the installation of a roof over the handball alley

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20103

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 Pottahee.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pottahee.

Architectural heritage

• St Michael’s Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1820, enlarged in 1837 with three-bay nave, and subsquently enlarged with gabled entrance having bellcote, two-bay transepts with entrances in outer bays, and central sacristy to south. Pitched slate roof with crested ridge tiles, raised barges and kneeler, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth and continuous strip quoins. Stone twin-light tracery with quatrefoil and hood moulding to entrance gable. Pointed arch openings to nave and transpets with hood mouldings and chamfered surrounds. Pointed arch timber doors to south elevation of transepts having hood mouldings, pointed Y-overlight. Sacristy to centre bay with pair of square-headed windows. Square-headed door opening to side of entrance porch. Interior having compartmented sheeted timber ceiling, carved timber gallery to west transept with wrought-iron railings, marble clad altar and reredos. Set back from the road on an elevated site with recent rubble stone boundary wall and surrounded by graveyard.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Pottahee.

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

Name

Pottahee

Area

588,353 m² (58.84 ha, 145.39 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

Corduff, Dillagh, Garrymore, Lackan Lower, Legaginny, Legaweel, Marahill

Placenames

Pottahee 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.