Clifferna

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clifferna, from 98 m² to 235,845 m² (23.58 ha, 58.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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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 Clifferna.

Recorded monuments

• CV027-005---* Church
  Description

  Davies (1948, 111) recorded that there was an early church here, apparently a short distance to the NE of the present church. Not visible at ground level. 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

• CV027-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 23m) enclosed by an earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. A later field boundary has been superimposed on the bank at N rendering it square in plan on this side. Original entrance may be represented by a break in bank at NE. 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

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular farmhouse, built c.1820, with advanced flat-roofed porches added to front and rear elevations, c.1960. Now disued. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, galvanised rainwater goods, rendered brick chimneystacks indicating tripartite internal division. Roughcast cement-rendered walls with smooth eaves and plinth course and raised end pilasters. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with raised stucco surrounds and heavy stone sills. Flat-roofed porch on front elevation having part-glaxed door to side. Full height timber battened door to rear porch. Later nineteenth-century three-bay outbuilding forming half-courtyard layout. Set on corner site enclosed on two sides by low roughcast rendered walls with profiled coping, square-profile piers with stone caps and forged-iron pedestrian gate and matching double-leaf vehicular gates.

• Farm house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1920, with two-storey return, single-storey entrance porch. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, tall red brickstacks with yellow brick decorative band. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to ground floor below a stucco platband under first floor sills, rusticated stucco quoins, and pebbledash to first floor. Roughcast rendered walls to rear elevation and return. Flat roofed porch having ruled-and-lined rendered walls and gadroon-profiled concrete pediment as blocking course. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows with wide margin panes, raised stucco architrave, and stone sills. Replacement door and side lights. Vernacular building attached to east gable serving as side entrance porch having a curved corrugated iron roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Early vernacular farmhouse complex, c.1820, retained within farmyard to the south-east. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs and timber battened doors.

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 Clifferna, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Clifferna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Clifferna · An Chliaifearna

Area

3,525,856 m² (352.59 ha, 871.26 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Larah South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 173 households in the Larah South electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altbeagh, Ardardagh, Cormeen, Greaghagibney, Knockataggart, Tirlahode Lower, Tirlahode Upper

Placenames

Clifferna 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.