Tomassan
Townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan; in Irish Tuaim Easáin
- Area
- 51.7 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 7,215 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomassan, from 22 m² to 92,170 m² (9.22 ha, 22.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Tomassan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Dec 2018Conditional
to erect single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18558
19 Jul 2017Conditional
for Glamping Site for 6 no. glamping pods, auxiliary building, incorporating recreational area, wc's, showers etc., site entrance, car park, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works. An NIS is included in this application. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17322
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
Recorded monuments
- CV010-023 Crannog
Description
Small circular island in Cuillaghan Lough, c. 150m from the shoreline. Marked on all OS eds. Hall recorded digging into a mound at the centre of the island and finding a substantial bed of ashes and debris incorporating coarse black sherds of pottery, fragments of quernstones, large quantities of broken bones and a grooved stone. An oak dugout canoe was discovered at that time on the SE shore. 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 Tomassan.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1932 (ZIP).
- 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 Tomassan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Tomassan · Tuaim Easáin
- Area
- 517,252 m² (51.73 ha, 127.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Lower
- Electoral division
- Ardue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardue electoral division: 897 people in 278 households; 84% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardue, Camalier, Cuillaghan, Drumrush, Tomkinroad
- Placenames
- Tomassan 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.