Pottle
Townland in the civil parish of Killashandra, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 55 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 17,386 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pottle, from 220 m² to 100,252 m² (10.03 ha, 24.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pottle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Nov 2023Conditional
for: A ten-year planning permission for an energy storage facility comprising (i) energy storage containers installed on concrete plinths; (ii) power conversion systems; (iii) power control centre units; (iv) underground electrical and communications cabling; (v) the upgrade of an existing agricultural access point from the L2512; (vi) on-site access track; (vii) security fencing and security gates; (viii) pole-mounted security cameras; and (ix) all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. This planning application is accompanied by an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360264
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Pottle.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pottle.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pottle.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Pottle.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Pottle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Pottle
- Area
- 550,457 m² (55.05 ha, 136.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashandra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Electoral division
- Bruce Hall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bruce Hall electoral division: 208 people in 75 households; 95% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dingins, Drumcarey, Loughdawan, Woteraghy
- Placenames
- Pottle 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.