Doocassan

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doocassan, from 199 m² to 132,630 m² (13.26 ha, 32.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Doocassan 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 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct a new part single storey & part two-storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560761

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560302

• 27 Jan 2025Refused

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560023

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  to install new sewerage treatment & percolation and all ancillary works to existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460028

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  carry out the following alterations to existing dwelling house (1) demolish single storey flat roof porch to front, (2) construct new two-storey extension to front and rear, proposed works will involve minor alterations to elevations, internal fit-out works, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23147

• 10 Mar 2023N/a

  to carry out the following alterations to an existing dwelling house: (1) Demolish single storey flat roof porch to front, (2) Construct new two storey extensions to front and rear, proposed works will involve minor alterations to elevations, internal fit-out works, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2399

• 15 Sept 2022Conditional

  of as constructed detached domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22380

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  to erect 2 no. permanent structures adjacent to existing building to form new outdoor covered areas (total area=75m2) ancillary to bar & restaurant use, together with all associated works. All the above in use solely during assigned opening hours

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21291

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a four bay slatted shed with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21178

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 Doocassan.

Recorded monuments

• CV021-024 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Sited on a low ridge. A ruined gallery stands towards the SSE end of a mound, 14.5m long, 7m in greatest width and 0.75m high. The gallery, now 3.5m long, is closed by a backstone at the SSE. Three sidestones remain at its more westerly side and four at the E. It narrows from 1.9m wide at the open NNW end to 1.1m near the backstone. The status of a number of low stones beyond the gallery sides is uncertain as is the function of a large set stone 1m SE of the backstone. 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

• CV021-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 30.3m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. The site is further encircled by a modern field boundary from SSW-N-E and by a modern roadway from E-S-SSW. A wide ditch which is presumably on the line of an external fosse, occurs outside the bank. Break in bank at E probably 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

Architectural heritage

• Drung Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Perpendicular Gothic style Church of Ireland church, built 1834, comprising four-bay nave with three-stage bell tower to west and chancel to the east flanked by vestry and boiler room. Castellated ashlar parapet to tower with octagonal pinnacled corner turrets over moulded cornice. Pitched slate roofs to nave and chancel with clay ridge tiles, eaves corbel course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut-stone pinnacles to ends of dressed barge stones with octagonal chimneystacks to apexes of nave and chancel gables, plain kneelers to chancel gable. Roughcast rendered walls with ashlar dressings. String courses defining tower stages having louvred pointed arch windows with hood moulds to belfry stage, blind oculii to middle stage. Tall lancet at lower stage to west face of tower, string course to middle stage carried over as head mould. Entrance in north face with label moulding and limestone shield as wall-plaque above. Octagonal-profile ashlar clasping buttresses to four corners of nave, stepped wall buttresses with weatherings terminating in gablets below eaves between bays. Widely spaced pointed arch windows having ashlar surrounds, angled sills and twin-lights windows with diamond panes and cusped roundels in heads, some with integral ventilators. Single-light lancets in west gable flanking tower. East window comprising four-light having timber tracery with transom creating two registers, lattice pattern to each light with margin panes, supermullions to upper section with roundels in each compartment. Cast-iron roof trusses of early twentieth-century with infill of circular motif. Quatrefoils ventilators in east and west ends of nave ceiling, appear externally as small rectangular openings. Continuous string course to interior forming hood mould over window rear arches continues over chancel arch to east and arch to belfry tower to west. Chancel arch articulated with by two orders with small colonettes, wagon-vaulted and ribbed ceiling to the chancel. Wainscotting to the walls of nave, older pattern around east. Private parlour pew as small balcony at first floor level of tower having sexpartite groin vault with ridge rib, pointed arch opening to nave with rib vaulting to arch soffit, balcony front decorated with cusped diamond panelling corbelled out over west door to nave. Stair access from ground floor of tower, diamond-paned internal lancet window to west of parlour pew borrows light from the west window of tower in stairwell. Church set in graveyard with octagonal-profile gate piers, boundary walls and gates.

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 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doocassan

Area

750,453 m² (75.05 ha, 185.44 acres)

Civil parish

Drung, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Drung, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drung electoral division: 541 people in 184 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavanarainy, Drumauna, Drumhillagh, Killymullin

Placenames

Doocassan 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.