# Tonaghbane, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kildrumsherdan, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,114,050 m² (111.41 ha, 275.29 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 43,917 m² (4.39 ha, 10.85 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kildrumsherdan, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/kildrumsherdan.md
- Barony: Tullygarvey
- Electoral division: Ashfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 414 people lived in 135 households in the Ashfield electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4394
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21892
- Centre: latitude 54.07233, longitude -7.137278 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 487028: 237,478 m² (23.75 ha, 58.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487028.md
- Parcel 449334: 135,972 m² (13.6 ha, 33.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/449334.md
- Parcel 465129: 118,158 m² (11.82 ha, 29.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465129.md
- Parcel 478962: 76,479 m² (7.65 ha, 18.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478962.md
- Parcel 465128: 72,856 m² (7.29 ha, 18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465128.md
- Parcel 471599: 70,238 m² (7.02 ha, 17.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/471599.md
- Parcel 465130: 60,673 m² (6.07 ha, 14.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465130.md
- Parcel 485827: 49,279 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485827.md
- Parcel 449333: 47,689 m² (4.77 ha, 11.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/449333.md
- Parcel 488340: 40,145 m² (4.01 ha, 9.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488340.md
- Parcel 468229: 12,859 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468229.md
- Parcel 5464981: 10,613 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5464981.md
- Parcel 5628772: 9,183 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5628772.md
- Parcel 476384: 7,792 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476384.md
- Parcel 470478: 6,064 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/470478.md
- Parcel 4826907: 4,948 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4826907.md
- Parcel 1521615: 4,939 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1521615.md
- Parcel 449335: 3,909 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/449335.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 31 May 2019, Cavan County Council 19209: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19209/0
- 10 Oct 2018, Cavan County Council 18410: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18410/0
- 16 Aug 2017, Cavan County Council 17358: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain extension and alterations to existing dwelling and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17358/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonaghbane.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CV017-063: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV017-063----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV017-064----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV017-065----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV017-066----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Tonaghbane Parochial Hall, church hall/parish hall, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40401702, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40401702. 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, registry number 40401703, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40401703. 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, registry number 40401742, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40401742. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Tonaghbane, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tonaghbane.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tonaghbane.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tonaghbane.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Tonaghbane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carrickalwy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/carrickalwy.md
- Corballyquill: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corballyquill.md
- Corweelis: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corweelis-20605.md
- Drumloaghan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumloaghan.md
- Drummury: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummury.md
- Killycreeny: https://everytownland.com/cavan/killycreeny.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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