Urney

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urney, from 589 m² to 105,719 m² (10.57 ha, 26.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Urney 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.

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the demolition of existing front porch and erection of a fully serviced single storey extension to the front of existing bungalow dwelling, alterations to existing floorplan and elevations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22248

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV015-073 Church
  Description

  Undivided nave and chancel church (int. dims. 13.2m E-W; 5.8m N-S) built of uncoursed rubble masonry. Single-light lancet E window. Two-centred chamfered arch over W doorway. Remains of plain window in E end of S wall with stone dressing indicative of late 16th-century date. An annexe, possibly a priest's quarters, adjoins church on W side and is accessed via a stairwell constructed against the inside of W gable. 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

• CV015-073001 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Urney Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch sandstone bridge, built c.1860, spanning the Annalee River. Pier and abutments of rock-faced blocks in varying course heights. Bullnose centre pier with rounded head on both elevations, having wide concrete bullnosed base. Wide equal segmental-arched spans, arch soffit of coursed stone. Rock-faced spandrels and parapet above arch rings of regular voussoirs with dressed arris. Heavily rusticated rock-faced copings to parapets, sloped ends to south parapets.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2048 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Urney

Area

517,366 m² (51.74 ha, 127.84 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Carrafin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrafin electoral division: 439 people in 147 households; 89% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrygoss, Derryleague, Derrylina, Drumcalpin, Hackelty, Inishmore, Rivory

Placenames

Urney 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.