Owengallees

91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Owengallees, from 47 m² to 274,403 m² (27.44 ha, 67.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Owengallees 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.

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  erect a single storey dwelling house with attached single storey domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance, complete with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21465

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 Owengallees.

Recorded monuments

• CV009-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 27.5m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, which has been removed from SSE-S-SW, and a wide, deep fosse. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. 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

• CV009-021 Crannog
  Description

  Small, circular, tree-covered island (diam. c. 12m) situated in Larkfield Lough, c.100m from the shoreline. 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

• Jampa Ling Buddhist Centre, country house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Victorian Italianate style double-pile six-bay two-storey over basement former country house, built c.1850, with advanced eastern bays, single-storey projecting porch adjoining with gablet to parapet, single-storey projections flanking side entrance to west, and canted bay window to east. Now in use as retreat centre. Hipped slate roof with lead-roll hips and ridges, rendered chimneystacks, wide projecting eaves with timber sheeting over and exposed timber rafters carved in serrated profile, and pressed-metal rainwater goods. Squared rock-faced coursed limestone walls, with yellow brick courses at eaves, smooth ashlar block-and-start quoins, and bevelled stone plinth. Variety of single, paired, and triple window openings having one-over-one timber sash windows in smooth ashlar segmental-arched block-and-start surrounds with relieving arches of rock-faced voussoirs and stone sills. Paired and triple openings having stone mullions, some openings with stone transom. Tripartite stair window with serrated arrises to upper register and banded colonettes below. Bay window with serrated arrises to heads and transoms of upper register and flanking vertical incisions. Decorative recesses to head of top frame of upper storey windows. Gabled porch to main entrance with round-headed door opening having single-pane overlight, stone transom, timber panelled double-leaf doors, and stone steps. Second entrance to western bay of front elevation in round-headed opening with ashlar surround, single-pane overlight, stone transom, panelled door and stone steps. Internal entrance lobby with timber glazed screen. Interior retains original layout with main timber stairs and hall to east, secondary timber stairs to south-west. Secondary entrance originally to corridor and timber panelled farm office door with opening panel. Detached two-storey former outbuilding to south, now in use as domestic accommodation, with hipped slate roof, rubble stone walls, uPVC windows, and recent glazed lobby on north side. Ruins of rubble stone outbuildings further south. Walled garden still in use with rubble stone walls to north and east. Rock-faced square-profile stone piers with pyramidal caps and rubble-stone quadrant walls flanking entrance to main road.

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 Owengallees, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Owengallees

Area

1,905,397 m² (190.54 ha, 470.83 acres)

Civil parish

Templeport, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Bawnboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

625 people lived in 229 households in the Bawnboy electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boley, Drumlougher, Gortnacargy, Gowlagh South, Lakefield, Mullaghmore, Newtown, Stranadarragh

Placenames

Owengallees 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.