Carrickbrannan

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickbrannan, from 1,315 m² to 130,049 m² (13 ha, 32.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Carrickbrannan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrickbrannan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carrickbrannan.

Recorded monuments

• CV005-001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Sited on a small knoll 450m W of the River Shannon. This dual court tomb, aligned NNE-SSW, has been denuded of its cairn this century. Two ruined galleries stand 15m apart. The northern, some 7m long, is divided by jambs into two chambers. A displaced lintel lies in front of the entrance jambs. There are one or possibly two courtstones beyond a fence to the NW. The sides of the front chamber are missing but the second chamber is largely intact. The remains of the southern gallery consist of two jambs marking a division between a northern chamber represented by two sidestones at the W and a southern chamber represented by two at the E. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 112-4, No. 12) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• CV005-002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Not marked on any OS ed. Sited at the foot of a hill in close proximity to a stream. Small irregular cairn of large stones (max. dim. 1.3m; H 0.6m). This feature may be associated with a gravel pit, marked on OS 1836 ed. a short distance to SW. 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

• CV005-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the NE shoulder of a low hill in rough mountainous terrain. A roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 21.7m) enclosed by the almost completely denuded remains of a drystone wall. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrickbrannan.

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 Carrickbrannan, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrickbrannan

Area

539,627 m² (53.96 ha, 133.34 acres)

Civil parish

Killinagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Dowra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

160 people lived in 72 households in the Dowra electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Cashelbane, Corradeverrid, Corrard, Tullaghyrory

Placenames

Carrickbrannan 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.