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

Townland in the civil parish of Bailieborough, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,403,641 m² (140.36 ha, 346.85 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,148 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Bailieborough, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/bailieborough.md
- Barony: Clankee
- Electoral division: Bailieborough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3655
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21976
- Centre: latitude 53.911223, longitude -6.991037 (WGS 84)

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

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urcher, from 68 m² to 213,155 m² (21.32 ha, 52.67 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 489542: 213,155 m² (21.32 ha, 52.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489542.md
- Parcel 447575: 150,284 m² (15.03 ha, 37.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/447575.md
- Parcel 473620: 122,480 m² (12.25 ha, 30.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473620.md
- Parcel 475436: 108,388 m² (10.84 ha, 26.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475436.md
- Parcel 489031: 70,068 m² (7.01 ha, 17.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489031.md
- Parcel 437955: 65,930 m² (6.59 ha, 16.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/437955.md
- Parcel 489022: 65,130 m² (6.51 ha, 16.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489022.md
- Parcel 475440: 59,887 m² (5.99 ha, 14.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475440.md
- Parcel 489032: 41,118 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489032.md
- Parcel 489035: 37,208 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489035.md
- Parcel 475443: 37,067 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475443.md
- Parcel 473555: 34,190 m² (3.42 ha, 8.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473555.md
- Parcel 492386: 34,138 m² (3.41 ha, 8.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/492386.md
- Parcel 4671663: 27,113 m² (2.71 ha, 6.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671663.md
- Parcel 469901: 26,252 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469901.md
- Parcel 488247: 18,571 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488247.md
- Parcel 488245: 18,103 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488245.md
- Parcel 475435: 17,843 m² (1.78 ha, 4.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475435.md
- Parcel 451271: 14,756 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/451271.md
- Parcel 4918014: 13,923 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4918014.md
- Parcel 4889915: 11,537 m² (1.15 ha, 2.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4889915.md
- Parcel 451933: 11,477 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/451933.md
- Parcel 4861241: 10,612 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861241.md
- Parcel 448749: 10,198 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448749.md
- Parcel 475446: 10,004 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/475446.md
- Parcel 459818: 6,990 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459818.md
- Parcel 476035: 6,488 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476035.md
- Parcel 448299: 6,318 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448299.md
- Parcel 433455: 6,231 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/433455.md
- Parcel 5730532: 5,994 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5730532.md
- Parcel 2487200: 5,202 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487200.md
- Parcel 489036: 4,830 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489036.md
- Parcel 465780: 4,681 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465780.md
- Parcel 490277: 4,638 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/490277.md
- Parcel 2487201: 4,519 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487201.md
- Parcel 488566: 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488566.md
- Parcel 472585: 4,422 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472585.md
- Parcel 464173: 4,294 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464173.md
- Parcel 445434: 4,245 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/445434.md
- Parcel 435332: 4,148 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435332.md
- Parcel 443901: 4,108 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443901.md
- Parcel 2996669: 4,053 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2996669.md
- Parcel 452506: 3,940 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/452506.md
- Parcel 448030: 3,917 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448030.md
- Parcel 2487151: 3,820 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487151.md
- Parcel 460812: 3,613 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/460812.md
- Parcel 478266: 3,136 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/478266.md
- Parcel 468732: 3,054 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/468732.md
- Parcel 446332: 3,053 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/446332.md
- Parcel 435575: 2,911 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435575.md
- Parcel 3045369: 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3045369.md
- Parcel 440831: 2,633 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/440831.md
- Parcel 488244: 2,486 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488244.md
- Parcel 470657: 2,428 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/470657.md
- Parcel 464331: 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464331.md
- Parcel 474128: 2,254 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474128.md
- Parcel 436369: 2,114 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436369.md
- Parcel 477466: 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477466.md
- Parcel 476034: 1,799 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/476034.md
- Parcel 473365: 1,730 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/473365.md
- Parcel 475679: 1,638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/475679.md
- Parcel 5092814: 1,569 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5092814.md
- Parcel 456154: 1,528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/456154.md
- Parcel 487306: 1,474 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/487306.md
- Parcel 469319: 1,458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/469319.md
- Parcel 433010: 1,388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/433010.md
- Parcel 479310: 1,384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/479310.md
- Parcel 476036: 1,072 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/476036.md
- Parcel 446637: 1,054 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/446637.md
- Parcel 472341: 1,019 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/472341.md
- Parcel 490425: 910 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/490425.md
- Parcel 5092811: 589 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5092811.md
- Parcel 468190: 576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/468190.md
- Parcel 455316: 436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/455316.md
- Parcel 455777: 284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/455777.md
- Parcel 435008: 265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/435008.md
- Parcel 5620150: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620150.md
- Parcel 490096: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/490096.md
- Parcel 3045354: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3045354.md

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

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.

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

4 applications, newest first.

- 14 Nov 2025, Cavan County Council 2560675: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560675/0
- 13 Dec 2023, Cavan County Council 2360311: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of "as constructed" domestic garage with lower ground floor storage area (Previous Planning Ref No. 041491). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360311/0
- 31 Aug 2020, Cavan County Council 20377: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20377/0
- 8 May 2019, Cavan County Council 19166: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain alterations to elevations, floor plans and all ancillary works (previous planning ref 04/2450). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19166/0

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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 Urcher.

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

- CV034-052: Meeting-house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV034-052----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV034-052001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV034-053----. 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

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)

- Urcher Manse, manse, 1860–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40403403, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40403403. 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.

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

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/urcher.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/urcher.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/urcher.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Urcher, Bailieborough: 7 sales, https://everytownland.com/cavan/urcher-bailieborough.md

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

- Cloverhill: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cloverhill.md
- Corlurgan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corlurgan-20459.md
- Galbolie: https://everytownland.com/cavan/galbolie.md
- Lisanalsk: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisanalsk.md
- Lisnalea: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lisnalea.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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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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