Urney

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Urney, from 50 m² to 98,575 m² (9.86 ha, 24.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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.

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a split-level two storey style dwelling with attached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560345

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a roofed manure pit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23263

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  for part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21760

• 9 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20399

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  to (1) retain location and orientation of existing bungalow dwelling, (2) retain detached domestic garage and (3) retain alteration to site layout

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19433

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a five bay shed which will consist of cubicles, slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18161

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 Urney.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-115001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Although this site has been levelled, the outline of the enclosing features are still visible from E-S-N, encompassing an almost circular area (diam c. 57.2m) which has been bisected by a field boundary running NE-SW. Davies (1948, 110) believed that it was probably the site of an old church (CV025-115002-). 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

• CV025-115002 Church
  Description

  Davies (1948, 110) believed that the children's burial ground in this townland (CV025-115001-) was probably the site of an early church. 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

• CV031-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 43m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks, each accompanied by wide, deep, partly waterlogged outer fosses. Corresponding breaks in banks at S with accompanying causeway across inner fosse 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

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

998,524 m² (99.85 ha, 246.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Bellananagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellananagh electoral division: 1,628 people in 579 households; 64% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellananagh, Cashel, Cormeen, Drumlion, Gortachurk, Kilmainham, Shancor

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.