Cabragh
Cabragh is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmethan, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is An Chabrach.
- Area
- 63.5 ha
- 157 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,475 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cabragh, from 899 m² to 241,990 m² (24.2 ha, 59.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Mar 2025Refuse permission & refuse retention
1) Retention permission is sought for: (i) the change of use of the wo
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0257E
3 Feb 2021Grant permission
Permission for the construction of single storey agricultural extensio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0054
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cabragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cabragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cabragh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cabragh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cabragh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cabragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Cabragh · An Chabrach
- Area
- 634,676 m² (63.47 ha, 156.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmethan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Clonmethan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 933 people lived in 282 households in the Clonmethan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Fieldstown, Killeen, Moortown, Oldtown
- Placenames
- Cabragh 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.