Urcher

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urcher, from 68 m² to 213,155 m² (21.32 ha, 52.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Urcher 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  to (a) construct a single storey detached dwelling, (b) install new domestic entrance gate at existing agricultural entrance, (c) install new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, (d) connect to family’s existing deep bore well, (e) form new driveway, (f) together with all associated site works -SIGNIFICANT FUTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560675

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  of "as constructed" domestic garage with lower ground floor storage area (Previous Planning Ref No. 041491)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360311

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, form a new site entrance onto the public roadway, install a proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system and private well

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20377

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  to retain alterations to elevations, floor plans and all ancillary works (previous planning ref 04/2450)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19166

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 Urcher.

Recorded monuments

• CV034-052 Meeting-house
  Description

  Situated on a slight S and W-facing slope. There was a synod of the Presbyterian Church in Ulster by 1690, and Presbyterianism was the faith of the Scottish settlers since the beginning of the century. The Secession Church was a branch of Presbyterianism that arose in Scotland in 1733, and by 1770 there were two congregations in Co. Cavan, at an unknown location in Corraneary and at Urcher. In the 1880s the congregation, then known as the Second Bailieborough, built a new church in the town, partly with materials from Urcher, and the congregation became known as Trinity Bailieborough. The Secessionists had been reconciled with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland by 1840, and by 1956 the last of the Original Secessionist Church had merged with the Church of Scotland. The original meeting house at Urcher is depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an oblong building (dims c. 15m NE-SW; c. 8m NW-SE), but only part of the conserved SW wall (L 9.85m; T 0.5m; H 1m) survives. It is within a subrectangular burial ground (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 20m E-W at N to c. 45m E-W at S) defined by earthen banks with hedges and has a fine wrought iron entrance gate at the S end of the E side where there is a public road. The headstones date from c. 1830-2015, and amongst them is the horizontal memorial to the congregation’s second minister, Rev. Francis Carlile who died in 1811. His widow, Anne Jane Carlile, long outlived him, dying in 1864, and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin. She had a remarkable career as a philanthropist and was actively involved in the temperance movement. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 March 2020

• CV034-052001 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a slight S and W-facing slope. The Secession Presbyterian Church had two congregations in Co. Cavan by 1770, at an unknown location in Corraneary and at Urcher. The Urcher meeting house (CV034-052001-) is within a subrectangular burial ground (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 20m E-W at N to c. 45m E-W at S) defined by earthen banks with hedges and has a fine wrought iron entrance gate at the S end of the E side where there is a public road. The headstones date from c. 1830-2015, and amongst them is the horizontal memorial to the congregation’s second minister, Rev. Francis Carlile who died in 1811. His widow, Anne Jane Carlile, long outlived him, dying in 1864, and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin. She had a remarkable career as a philanthropist and was actively involved in the temperance movement. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 March 2020

• CV034-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Urcher Fort' on OS Fair Plan and 'Fort' on 1836 and 1876 eds. Slightly raised circular area (int. diam. c. 22m) defined by a scarp. Original entrance not recognisable. Situated on the NE shoulder of a drumlin ridge. Site has been almost totally levelled. 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

• Urcher Manse, manse, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former manse, built c.1870, with two-storey lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private dwelling. Hipped replacement slate roof with closely-spaced pair of rendered chimneystacks flanking centre bay, and uPVC rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walls with smooth render eaves course. Two-over-two timber sliding sash windows diminishing in height from ground to first floor, all with stone sills. Central round-headed entrance in recessed opening with stepped recesses to plain fanlight set over running-moulded entablature supported by colonettes having foliated capitals on chamfered pedestals. Panelled timber door with cast-iron bootscraper. Yard to rear, having rubble walls with two-bay single-storey outbuilding and wrough-iron gates. Smooth-rendered wing walls with Scotch copings and 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Urcher, Bailieborough7 sales

Name

Urcher

Area

1,403,641 m² (140.36 ha, 346.85 acres)

Civil parish

Bailieborough, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Bailieborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bailieborough electoral division: 4,230 people in 1,546 households; 73% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloverhill, Corlurgan, Galbolie, Lisanalsk, Lisnalea

Placenames

Urcher 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.