Sallaghan

118 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sallaghan, from 323 m² to 204,324 m² (20.43 ha, 50.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Sallaghan 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.

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560558

• 4 Jan 2019Conditional

  to erect a fully serviced, split level dwelling house with detached garage together with effluent treatment and percolation area, new roadside entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 192

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cordonaghy Bog 000978
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gowna 000992

Recorded monuments

• CV030-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 41.1m) enclosed a very wide, deep, waterlogged fosse and substantial earthen bank. Fragmentary traces of a low counterscarp bank identifiable at the outer lip of the fosse from S-SW-N. Fosse absent from N-NNE. Original entrance at SE. 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

• Sallaghan Bridge, bridge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch stone road bridge, built c.1850, over River Erne. Coursed squared rubble limestone slightly battered piers, abutments, spandrels and barrel. Coursed squared rubble sandstone abutments with chamfered string course at impost level and V-cutwaters. Stepped cut-stone voussoirs to semi-circular arches. Squared rubble stone parapet having dressed angled coping and pyramidal capstones to piers. Squared rubble stone wing walls having curved parapet profile to inner road bend and terminating with pyramidal capstones.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Sallaghan.

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

Name

Sallaghan

Area

1,447,138 m² (144.71 ha, 357.6 acres)

Civil parish

Scrabby, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Scrabby, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Scrabby electoral division: 662 people in 244 households; 77% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaveans, Cordonaghy, Corratober, Drumbriskan, Drumgore, Knockaghy, Lisanny, Portanure

Placenames

Sallaghan 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.