Straheglin

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straheglin, from 7 m² to 253,396 m² (25.34 ha, 62.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Public Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 31 Jan 2024Refused

  to upgrade existing entrance and driveway to former rectory and provide staff/visitors carpark to service existing pharmacy, provide new recessed walls and piers to gate existing rectory and associated site works at Lower Bridge Street, Belturbet, Co. Cavan. (H14Y426). The proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460033

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct a 2 no. shipping container structure to provide workshop covered area and store as an extension of the Men's Shed facility, and associated works. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of the protected structures CV0752, CV0753, CV0191, Cv0192 & CV0193.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360254

• 6 Oct 2023N/a

  to construct a 2 no. shipping container structure to provide workshop covered area and store as an extension of the Men's Shed facility, and associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360218

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  to erect a life size woolly mammoth structure and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21683

• 25 Nov 2020Conditional

  to erect 3 bay slatted agricultural shed with underground storage tanks and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20532

• 16 Aug 2019Conditional

  for partial change of use from canoe and boat storage building (Boathouse) to holiday let, and RETENTION to retain alterations to elevations, external finishes and associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19317

• 24 Jan 2019Conditional

  for single storey domestic extension and associated works to existing terrace house

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1919

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17553

• 28 Jun 2017Conditional

  to retain single storey office, retail and store within existing structure and retain extension of shop with loft storage and alteration to elevations. Protected Structure under Cavan County Development Plan CV 11017

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 17291

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV011-013002 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Strategically situated on Turbet Island, an important fording point on the River Erne, close to the boundary between the medieval kingdoms of East Breifne and Fermanagh. Constructed in 1210/11 by John Grey, King John's Justiciar. It was one of seven fortifications erected to isolate Ulster (in native Irish control) from Connacht. The campaign was short-lived as the Irish under Aedh O'Neill threw back the invaders. Davies (1947a, 82) believed that the Turbet Island motte and bailey had probably been abandoned by 1213. Motte comprises a high, steep-sided earthen mound, oval in plan (dims of base 47.5m WNW-ESE; 34m ENE-WSW) and basically conoid in profile (H 5.5m). At its highest point, at ESE, there are foundations of a small, subcircular, mortared stone structure (int. dims 2.05m x 2.9m). Davies (ibid., 81) interpreted this as the remains of a tower and speculated that it may be 16th-century in date. At the centre of the summit of the mound there is a deep, precipitous depression (Wth 9m; D 3.6m) aligned NNE-SSW which separates the highest ESE part of the motte from a crescent-shaped area (max. dims 8.4m NW-SE; 6.2m NE-SW) set at a lower level at WNW. A narrow fosse separates motte from bailey at SSW. Bailey is a raised subrectangular area (dims 38.8m NNE-SSW; 38m WNW-ESE) covering some 1278 square meters and enclosed by an earthen bank, traces of which are identifiable at SSW. Three low earthen mounds (dims 1.2m, 2m and 3.2m respectively) of unknown significance also occur at SSW, close to the perimeter of the bailey. A wide, deep fosse running from NNW-W-ENE effectively isolates motte and bailey from the island. Shoreline of island has been scarped at ESE and WNW. There are no visible remains of the castle. A modern church and accompanying carpark encroach on the site as indicated on the OS 6-inch map. (O'Donovan 1991-2) Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV011-013003 Structure
  Description

  At the highest point of the motte (CV011-013002-), at ESE, there are foundations of a small, subcircular, mortared stone structure (int. dims. 2.05m x 2.9m). Davies (1947, 81) interpreted this as the remains of a tower and speculated that it may be 16th-century in date. 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: 22 January 2015

Architectural heritage

• House, bank/financial institution, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey former bank manager’s house and adjoining four-bay single-storey bank, built 1906-1907, with two-storey extensions to rear. Now in use as presbytery. Pitched slated roof to house with brick chimneys at gables, slate roof to bay windows. Flat roof to bank. Replacement pressed metal rainwater goods. Brick elevation to house with canted bay windows flanking entrance, stone sills and lintels and uPVC windows. Brick elevation to bank with render entablature having decorative relief panel for bank name over cornice forming heads of windows. Plain brick piers between window openings with rendered band at cill and brick below. Replacement uPVC transom windows. Porch composed of render Ionic pilasters with rounded arrises, corner volutes, and panelled enlarged capitals, surmounted by cornice with lower corbelled cornice above door. Timber panelled doors with fixed overlights to buildings, double leaf to bank. Cast-iron railings on stone plinth with cast-iron gates.

• Church/chapel, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival former Methodist church with gable-fronted porch, built 1903, with recent single-storey extension to the north gable. Now in use as house. Pitched artificial slate roofs and ridge tiles, with stone fractables to gables of main roof and porch with roll-moulding at apex and concave brackets at eaves, replacement box gutters on stone corbels with square cast-iron downpipes. Recent dormers to north-east. Random coursed rock-faced limestone ashlar walls with smooth block-and-start quoins to corners. Limestone dressings to window and door openings and bevelled plinth. Pair of lancet windows with quatrefoil rose window to north gable, triple lancets to south, three lancets to nave entrance elevation. Pointed arch opening in porch, with square-headed side windows. Timber sheeted entrance door and replacement timber windows throughout. Rubble stone wall to south-west, cast-iron railings on rendered bevelled plinth with double wrought-iron gates to entrance.

• Erne Bridge, bridge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-span elliptical-arched limestone bridge, built 1836, spanning River Erne, supporting a ramped deck with highest point above higher central arch. Rock-faced ashlar parapets with saddle stone coping, square-profile end piers and inscribed recessed plaques in rectangular pedestals to centre of parapets on road side. String course below parapets to riverside elevations rising to apex over central arch. Advanced battered buttresses flanking three-arched central section. Spandrels of dressed random-coursed stone, arch rings of rock-faced V-jointed stepped voussoirs rising from rock-faced abutments with impost course and pointed cutwaters with rounded caps to upstream and downstream sides. Arch soffit of coursed cut stone. Wing walls extend to connect with street embankments.

• Erne Vale, distillery, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey former distillery, built 1825, incorporating remains of an earlier structure and later nineteenth century extensions. Now in use as private house, with L-plan single-storey addition with entrance set in internal corner to west gable. Pitched slate roof with decorative clay ridge cresting, red brick chimneystacks with moulded courses to gables and unevenly spaces along ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render quoins. Six-over-six replacement sliding sash windows with patent reveals and stone sills to front and sides. Recent timber bay windows with similar windows flanking main entrance door and in end bay to west. uPVC windows to rear. Round-headed front entrance with replacement panelled door and historic leaded spider's web fanlight. Square-headed door to western extension with reused eighteenth century eight-panelled door with margin panes to overlight. Retaining internal timber shutters to front elevation. Rubble stone outbuildings flank rear yard with brick dressing to square, arched and circular openings. Rubble stone wall marks boundary to adjacent yard with single-storey slated rubble stone outbuildings. Extensive front garden area with plain wrought-iron double-leaf gates flanked by similar pedestrian gates all in rendered piers.

• Belturbet Railway Station, train shed, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey railway engine shed, built 1887, now disused. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge with elongated timebr ridge ventilator, timber fascia and barge boards. Squared random-coursed rock-faced limestone walls, with cut-stone arrises. Round-headed window openings to side elevations and west gable with three-course arches of engineering brick and stone sills, now boarded up. Round-arched door opening to east elevation with four-course brick arch and full-height timber sheeted double-leaf doors. Set in gravel area formerly amongst railway lines close to former railway station and station master’s house located to north-east.

• Belturbet Railway Station, railway station, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached nine-bay single-storey former railway station, built 1887, with gabled breakfront and projecting canopy, roofed platform and track to rear. Now in use as visitor's centre. Hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves with fascia and barge boards. Clay roll-moulded ridge tiles with three stone chimney stacks having string course and tapered capping, cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber canopy to entrance resting on decorative curved cast-iron wall brackets, timber sheeting to sides with serrated fringe. Snecked random coursed rock-faced ashlar limestone walls over, projecting plinth. Segmental-headed window openings and paired round-headed windows in breakfront flanking entrance, all with smooth dressed chamfered arrises and reveals, stone sills and historic timber sash windows with margin panes. Round-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled doors with fanlight. Entrance hall with cast-iron fireplace to west end, plaster cornice and surrounds to openings, rendered walls and recent timber floor. Platform elevation as entrance elevation. Corrugated-iron roof on steel truss roof resting on station platform elevation and squared-random rock-faced stone wall opposite. End gables of platform roof with vertical timber sheeting with serrated fringe. Platform floor of recent concrete paving slabs.

• Bridge, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arched limestone bridge over the River Erne, built c.1885, formerly carrying the narrow gauge Cavan-Leitrim Railway, having a narrow flat deck between high river banks. Now in use as pedestrian bridge. Rendered parapets with U-shaped refuges over half-round piers. Rock-faced ashlar spandrels and piers of varying course heights with string course below parapets. Segmental arches of regular rock-faced voussoirs, smooth dressed arch barrels on rock-faced abutments, having rounded ends forming cutwaters to upstream and downstream sides with smooth dressed chamfered caps as bases to piers.

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Straheglin

Area

1,071,113 m² (107.11 ha, 264.68 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Grilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grilly electoral division: 512 people in 165 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornadarragh (Pleydell), Corporation Lands, Drumavaddy, Feugh (Maxwell), Kilconny, Putiaghan Lower, Tawlaght

Placenames

Straheglin 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.