Ralaghan

128 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ralaghan, from 26 m² to 115,960 m² (11.6 ha, 28.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Ralaghan 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.

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  for 1. Re-Development and reconfiguration of existing dwelling house; 2. Demolition of single storey porch to front and single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house; 3. Construction of a new single storey porch to front and single storey extension to rear of dwelling house; 4. Replacement of existing roof with a new roof to cover the existing dwelling and proposed extension; 5. Development of roof space to provide bedroom accommodation at first floor level & 5. Associated elevational revisions together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660110

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  for 1. RETENTION of partially constructed part single storey, part two-storey dwelling house which is revised from that granted Planning Permission under Planning Reference No. 22/279 and 2. PERMISSION to complete the construction of the said dwelling house, relocation of the position of the entrance off existing private laneway to include the provision of entrance piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660015

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct two storey detached dwelling, with detached domestic single storey garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping, boundaries and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360119

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  for a two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, access via existing private laneway, entrance piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22279

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21725

• 8 Sept 2021Refused

  for a two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21553

• 18 May 2021Conditional

  to construct a 24 metre high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21288

• 5 Mar 2020N/a

  for the construction of a 36m high multi-operator telecommunications support structure carrying antennas and dishes, with associated ground level equipment cabinets and security fencing, use of existing access and access track and extension of access track

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2077

• 9 Aug 2019N/a

  of single storey general storage shed (Floor area = 319 Msq), garden amenity building (Floor Area = 15 Msq) and firewood storage shed (Floor Area = 20 Msq)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19306

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  of change of house type from dormer dwelling (previously granted under 07/717) to two storey dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18480

• 7 Sept 2018Conditional

  for building known as The Holistic Gardens. The 240msq building consists of Entrance porch, Main activities space, Treatment rooms, Kitchen, Office and Toilet facilities for the purpose of providing holistic services. Permission also sought to retain Effluent treatment system with percolation area, Entrance onto public road and driveway, Car-parking area, Landscaped walkway and Signage

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 18366

• 8 Aug 2017Conditional

  erect a) two storey detached dormer bungalow, b) associated waste water treatment system, c) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17353

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 Ralaghan.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Black Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Site has been levelled. 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

• CV028-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a substantial inner earthen bank, a wide, deep fosse and traces of an outer bank. Both fosse and outer bank are now only identifiable from NNE-SE. Narrow entrance at E may be original. 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

• Glasleck Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestandind four-bay double-height Presbyterian church, built 1836, having recessed entrance bay to north and two-bay two-storey school wing to rear. Now disused. Hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystack to gable extension, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to front and south elevations, having cut-stone quoins to front corners. Cut stone plaque with moulded frame to centre of front elevation inscribed 'A.C / MDCCCXXXVI'. Historic roughcast rendered walls to north and rear elevations. Row of pointed arch multiple pane timber windows in stone surrounds with intersecting switch-line tracery to heads, similar windows to rear, pair of pointed windows to south gable having margin panes, coloured glass and X-divisions to head, all externally boarded up. Pointed arch door opening having square-headed sheeted timber door with stone lintel and intersecting tracery to overlight, also blocked externally. Square-headed openings to school wing with blocked windows and sheeted timber door. Internally tiled floor, two carved stone plaques to walls, bench pews, and centrally placed canted timber pulpit with gabled back panel and flanking steps. Set back from the road with cut stone grave markers. Site entrance shared with adjoining former manse having two sets of wrought-iron gates with rendered convex quadrant walls and square-plan piers.

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 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 Ralaghan.

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

Name

Ralaghan · Ráth Lachan

Area

2,564,622 m² (256.46 ha, 633.73 acres)

Civil parish

Shercock, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Taghart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghart electoral division: 661 people in 212 households; 91% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crossmakeelan, Drumad, Glasleck, Nolagh, Taghart South

Placenames

Ralaghan 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.