Cahanagh

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahanagh, from 245 m² to 89,500 m² (8.95 ha, 22.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cahanagh 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.

• 18 Sept 2025N/a

  of an existing garage type structure as constructed and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560202

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing derelict dwelling house & outhouses together with the construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460060

• 14 Dec 2022Refused

  the proposed demolition of existing derelict dwelling house & outhouses together with the construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22285

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  erection of a 3 bay shed, concrete forecourt/parking area, entrance roadway, front gates and wing walls whereby it is now also proposed to relocate & re-orientate the proposed 3 bay shed to the north-eastern corner of the site and also to seek full planning permission for the retention & completion of existing works carried out to date which include; (i) the demolition of existing structure to the rear of existing dwelling house and (ii) retention & completion of the recently constructed concrete yard

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21154

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 Cahanagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cahanagh.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cahanagh.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cahanagh, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1714 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Cahanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cahanagh · Cathanach

Area

734,387 m² (73.44 ha, 181.47 acres)

Civil parish

Clongesh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Caldragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,690 people lived in 937 households in the Caldragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonrallagh, Creenagh, Knockawalky, Lismoy

Placenames

Cahanagh 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.