Tonaghbane

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonaghbane, from 3,909 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres) to 237,478 m² (23.75 ha, 58.68 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tonaghbane 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.

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a part single storey, part two storey extension to an existing dwelling house. The development will also include the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19209

• 10 Oct 2018Conditional

  to carry out the following alterations to existing dwelling house: 1) Demolish single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, 2) Construct new two-storey extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house, to include garage and carport area to rear and 3) Upgrade existing septic tank to new mechanical wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18410

• 16 Aug 2017Conditional

  to retain extension and alterations to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17358

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 Tonaghbane.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on a prominent hillock. Not 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

• CV017-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and faint traces of a fosse identifiable only from SW-N-NE. Elsewhere, fosse has been infilled and replaced by a modern trackway. Partly blocked break in bank at S may represent 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

• CV017-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 27m) enclosed by an earthen bank, which been much modified and incorporated into the field boundary from S-W-NNW, and traces of a shallow fosse. Both bank and fosse have been levelled from NNW-E-S. 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

• CV017-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.7m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse encompassed by a low but well-defined counterscarp bank from SSW-NW. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded that the original entrance may have been at ENE. 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

• Tonaghbane Parochial Hall, church hall/parish hall, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-cell parochial hall, built c.1890, with entrance porch to west gable end. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with decorative timber bargeboards, timber eaves supporting cast-iron gutters, cast-iron downpipes at corners. Corrugated-iron walls. Paired timber casement windows, upper sections with pointed heads in square-headed surrounds, timber sills, and double-leaf timber sheeted external shutters. Pointed arch door opening with timber sheeted door. Forged decorative double gates at road entrance.

• Ashfield Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Church of Ireland church, built 1796, with centrally placed four-stage entrance tower to west gable having octagonal-profile ashlar spire addition, c.1820, transepts and chancel additions and interior refurbishments dating to 1860-61, and vestry attached to north side of chancel. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, barge stones to gable with ogee kneelers at eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods carried on corbels. Cut-stone chimneystacks to transepts. Crenellated ashlar parapet with plain corner turrets to tower. Roughly coursed rubble sandstone walls having raised ashlar quoins to nave, flush quoins to later transepts and chancel, and plinths to transepts and chancel. Tower turrets set above stepped diagonal corner buttresses with weatherings at four stages. Random rubble stone walls to tower, having moulded string courses marking stages. Paired lancets to nave, triple-light windows to transept with switch-line tracery, hood mouldings, and label stops. Pointed louvred belfry openings to fourth stage of tower, short blind lancets to third stage, square-headed openings to second stage with louvre infill and splayed sides. Double light lancet to west of first stage with hood moulding and label stops. Graduated triple lancet to chancel. Paired lancets with splayed jambs and cusps to vestry. Entrance in south elevation of tower with pointed arch opening having timber sheeted double doors. Interior with timber open arch-braced collar roof with wall posts rising from corbels between bays. Transepts decorated with reduced inner order rising from plain triangular corbels with a lower plainly treated chancel arch. Gallery at west end retains early plainly treated front with trefoil headed arched panels supported on cast-iron clustered colonettes. Straight-backed bench seats, pulpit, reader’s desk, and communion rails all date to 1860-1 refurbishment. Stained glass dates to 1890-1905 period, while nave windows retain diamond patterned paned clear glass. Decorative clay floor tiles in chancel with timber step to front, and raised timber floor below pews. Surrounded by graveyard and bounded by rubble stone piers with pyramidal cappings flanking wrought-iron double gates to south-east and recent metal pedestrian gate to north-east.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of Victorian semi-detached three-bay two-storey houses, built c.1890, sharing common central gable with entrances in the outer bays, and recent single-storey extension to rear. Currently disused. Pitched slate roof with plain bargeboards, crested clay ridge tiles, central brick chimneystack with decorative brick cornice, and exposed rafters at eaves, and bargeboards at gables, with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to slate roof above porches resting on timber brackets on stone corbels. Random rubble stone walls with brick dressings to openings and quoins. Paired windows openings on front elevation, single windows in gables, and smaller windows on rear elevation, all with stone sills. Timber casement windows with eight-pane lights to upper floor and six-over-one to ground floor. Timber sheeted doors to front and rear elevations. Shared outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof, and rubble-stone walls with brick dressing to openings and corners. Remains of rubble stone walls to rear.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tonaghbane

Area

1,114,050 m² (111.41 ha, 275.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ashfield electoral division: 414 people in 135 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickalwy, Corballyquill, Corweelis, Drumloaghan, Drummury, Killycreeny

Placenames

Tonaghbane 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.