# Skerrig, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumgoon, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 686,512 m² (68.65 ha, 169.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,572 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumgoon, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/drumgoon.md - Barony: Tullygarvey - Electoral division: Cootehill Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,138 people lived in 412 households in the Cootehill Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4712 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21824 - Centre: latitude 54.068811, longitude -7.010451 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skerrig, from 1,168 m² to 69,900 m² (6.99 ha, 17.27 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 444787: 69,900 m² (6.99 ha, 17.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444787.md - Parcel 444788: 53,928 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444788.md - Parcel 449746: 38,717 m² (3.87 ha, 9.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/449746.md - Parcel 4641661: 32,250 m² (3.23 ha, 7.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641661.md - Parcel 466473: 30,616 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466473.md - Parcel 439255: 30,573 m² (3.06 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/439255.md - Parcel 444789: 28,946 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444789.md - Parcel 485894: 28,361 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485894.md - Parcel 482156: 27,776 m² (2.78 ha, 6.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/482156.md - Parcel 469710: 21,998 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469710.md - Parcel 434313: 18,021 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434313.md - Parcel 4641647: 15,743 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641647.md - Parcel 470490: 14,755 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/470490.md - Parcel 444791: 8,388 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444791.md - Parcel 482664: 6,491 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/482664.md - Parcel 444715: 5,340 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444715.md - Parcel 478982: 5,319 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478982.md - Parcel 444790: 5,118 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444790.md - Parcel 5224332: 3,063 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5224332.md - Parcel 469713: 3,022 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469713.md - Parcel 469711: 2,747 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469711.md - Parcel 441483: 1,840 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/441483.md - Parcel 465979: 1,839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/465979.md - Parcel 491175: 1,354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/491175.md - Parcel 473264: 1,224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/473264.md - Parcel 2995889: 1,168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995889.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Skerrig in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Mar 2026, Cavan County Council 2660134: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to revise site boundaries that were previously approved under Planning Reference No. 22184 and all ancillary site work. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660134/0 - 5 Dec 2025, Cavan County Council 2560723: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a single storey detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, landscaping, boundaries, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560723/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Skerrig. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Skerrig. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skerrig. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Skerrig, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skerrig. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/skerrig.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/skerrig.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/skerrig.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skerrig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghagashlan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghagashlan.md - Dunmakenna (Co. Monaghan): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunmakenna.md - Mayo: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mayo.md - Tullybrick: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tullybrick-21930.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/skerrig - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/skerrig