Tircahan

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tircahan, from 261 m² to 102,275 m² (10.23 ha, 25.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Tircahan 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.

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the continued use of existing 44.5ha limestone quarry and ancillary works permitted under Planning Ref 02/949 (An Bord Pleanála Ref PL.02.203303) with quarrying operations continuing to extend laterally over an area of c. 4ha in order to reach the full extents of quarrying previously permitted and a vertical extension resulting in a maximum quarry floor depth of 25mAOD, over a period of up to 20 years, with the restoration to a waterbody and biodiverse habitats following the completion of extraction. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21568

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 Tircahan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tircahan.

Architectural heritage

• Tircahan Lodge, farm house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan two-storey three-bay house, built c.1890, with projecting centre bay having entrance to side, single-bay side elevations with single-storey canted bay windows, double-pile two-storey two-bay return to west with projecting entrance bay at inner corner to north and lean-to to rear. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and projecting eaves having cast-iron rainwater goods on ashlar sandstone cornice. Rendered brick chimneystacks flanking centre bay, further central stacks to ridges of return, all with decorative octagonal pots. Lead-roll ridges to bay windows. Artificial stale roof to return with aluminium rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with string courses to main block forming frieze below cornice and at eaves level of bay windows, bevelled rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings, painted sandstone sills and two-over-two sash windows. One-over-one sash windows to canted bays. Three-over-three sash window to rear lean-to. Four panelled timber door to north of porch, with single-pane overlight in moulded surround on block plinths and approached by steps. Yard to north having two-storey slated and rendered outbuildings, predating house, retaining double-leaf timber doors and two-over-two sash windows. Wrought-iron gates to entrance.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tircahan · Tír Chatháin

Area

696,798 m² (69.68 ha, 172.18 acres)

Civil parish

Kinawley, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Tircahan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Borim, Drumbar, Gorteen, Gortlaunaght, Gortnaleg, Killaghaduff, Newtown

Placenames

Tircahan 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.