Toghernaross

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toghernaross, from 1,086 m² to 155,454 m² (15.55 ha, 38.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Toghernaross 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct new machinery storage shed and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560211

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  to construct new silage slab with concrete apron, ancillary concrete and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2331

• 30 Nov 2022N/a

  to construct new silage slab with concrete apron, ancillary concrete and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22480

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 Toghernaross.

Recorded monuments

• CV037-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the W slope of a drumlin ridge. Almost completely levelled. All that now remains to indicate the presence of the site is a kink in the field boundary from W-NW-N. Otherwise nothing visible at ground level. 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

• CV037-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a low earthen bank. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toghernaross.

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

At the centre of the townland of Toghernaross, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Toghernaross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Toghernaross

Area

1,119,366 m² (111.94 ha, 276.6 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlumman, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilgolagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

331 people lived in 122 households in the Kilgolagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawn, Cloncovet, Cullaboy Lower, Freeduff, Kilcogy, Moynagh Lower, Pottlebane

Placenames

Toghernaross 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.