Cabragh
Townland in the civil parish of Loughan or Castlekeeran, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 161.1 ha
- 398 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 13,855 m² (1.39 ha, 3.42 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cabragh, from 734 m² to 277,998 m² (27.8 ha, 68.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 65 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
24 Jul 2026N/a
(1) Removal of existing walled silage pit, (2) Construction of replacement walled silage pit, (3) Installation of cattle handling race and associated handling area, (4) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660937
19 Oct 2024Conditional
planning permission on previously approved site reg. ref. 24/60255 for the construction of a new 1.5 storey detached dwelling including proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works with change of house type and site layout plan from that previously approved under Reg. Ref. 24/60255
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460864
12 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey detached dwelling including waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460255
13 Oct 2023Conditional
the development consists of (1) revised house plans and site layout from previously granted under ref no KA201930 and (2) ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 23973
27 Aug 2021Conditional
for development consisting of the demolition of existing agricultural building and the erection of a two-storey dwellinghouse with proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, also private entrance
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21540
11 Dec 2020Conditional
the development consists of to construct (1) storey and half type dwelling (2) domestic garage (3) proprietary wastewater system (4) new site entrance onto the road (5) and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201930
21 Jul 2020Conditional
construct a single storey style dwelling with attached domestic garage, form new entrance from from the public road, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200959
14 Jul 2020Conditional
a two storey house with proprietary effluent treatment system & percolation area, a stand alone domestic garage, a vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200920
21 Feb 2020Conditional
planning permission to construct a one and a half storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and to install a sewage treatment system with percolation area together with all associated works on site
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA200219
3 Mar 2017Conditional
Continuance of Use for existing 30 metre telecommunications support structure carrying associated antennae and link dishes, associated equipment cabinet (as per previous Planning Ref. KA/901199) and Permision for additional antennae and link dishes and associated cabinet, including existing security fencing and access tract
Permission · Meath County Council, KA170218
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cabragh.
- 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.
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. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Cabragh
- Area
- 1,611,210 m² (161.12 ha, 398.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughan or Castlekeeran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Loughan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Loughan electoral division: 471 people in 160 households; 90% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonagrouna, Cornasaus, Feegat, Leitrim (Co. Cavan), Loughan, Rahendrick
- 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.