Ticosker
Townland in the civil parish of Killashandra, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 164.2 ha
- 406 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 3,122 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- White Lands
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ticosker, from 99 m² to 226,463 m² (22.65 ha, 55.96 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4White Lands (Built up area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Dec 2025Conditional
for revised site layout with the repositioning of the dwelling house and domestic garage that was previously granted under Planning application ref: 2460139 along with all site ancillary development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560747
29 Nov 2025N/a
to revised site layout with the repositioning of the dwelling house and domestic garage that was previously granted under Planning application ref: 2460139 along with all site ancillary development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560711
14 Nov 2025Conditional
for the construction of an ambulant disabled toilet and storeroom, alterations to existing entrance and playground area, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560677
2 Oct 2024Conditional
for the demolition of existing two storey dwelling house and sheds (B) the construction of a replacement two storey dwelling house with single storey elements, boundary walls, new domestic garage and storage shed, connection to the town storm/foul sewer and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460467
10 Apr 2024Conditional
to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, and piers, with connection to town water main and town foul sewer
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460139
28 Feb 2024N/a
to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, and piers, with connection to town water main and town foul sewer
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460068
9 May 2023Conditional
for the construction of a two storey extension onto the south east side of an existing two storey terrace house consisting of dining/sitting space on ground floor and master bedroom on first floor, alterations to the internal layout and external fabric of the existing dwelling, alterations to existing garden shed, alterations to existing entrance, walls, piers and fencing and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360019
13 Jul 2021Conditional
for proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, on site suitable treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21435
28 Aug 2020Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a single storey house, domestic garage, modification to existing field entrance, installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20373
19 Nov 2019Conditional
to retain and continue with construction of a detached domestic garage and associated site development works to rear
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19463
30 Sept 2019Conditional
for the construction of a two storey extension onto the south east side of an existing two storey terrace house consisting of kitchen/sitting space on ground floor and master bedroom, walk in wardrobe and en-suite on first floor, and alterations to the internal layout and external fabric of the existing dwelling and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19377
21 Mar 2018Conditional
to construct a jetty and slipway to service Garty Lough and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 18113
26 Jan 2018Conditional
the proposed construction of an alternative entrance to service existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1828
22 Mar 2017Conditional
to erect a fully serviced storey and a half dwelling, detached domestic garage, sewage treatment unit, percolation area, entrance walls and piers, together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17108
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 Ticosker.
Recorded monuments
- CV024-066 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 45.6m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a shallow, narrow, partly waterlogged fosse. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. 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
- CV024-067 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Arvagh Church, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding Gothic Revival L-plan Church of Ireland church, built 1819, comprising three-stage entrance bell tower attached to three-bay nave, with one single-bay transept to north, vestry to east at intersection of nave and transept. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with roughcast render to north gable. Crenellated ashlar parapet to tower over corbel table. Rubble sandstone walls to tower with squared cut-stone to corners and upper stage, string courses between stages. Pointed arch louvred belfry openings to upper stage with hood moulding, square-headed twin-light trefoil windows to first stage in splayed ashlar surrounds, twin-light lancet window to west of tower with pointed arch door opening to south. Pointed arch openings having chamfered cut-stone surrounds and hood mouldings, stained glass windows to nave and chancel, twin-light timber tracery and multiple pane lattice windows to transept. Square-headed door opening to vestry approached by flight of cut stone steps. Sheeted timber doors to tower and vestry. Internally compartmented sheeted timber ceiling and timber wainscotting. Carved timber pews, altar, and pulpit. Set back from the road behind low replacement boundary wall and gates. Church surrounded by graveyard with nineteenth and twentieth century grave markers.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ticosker.
- 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 Ticosker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Ticosker
- Area
- 1,642,089 m² (164.21 ha, 405.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashandra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Electoral division
- Arvagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Arvagh electoral division: 967 people in 385 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brankill, Corhanagh, Corlisbrattan, Drumalt, Drumnawall, Fihoragh (Co. Longford), Ticosker Glebe
- Placenames
- Ticosker 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.