Gallon Etra

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallon Etra, from 62 m² to 159,580 m² (15.96 ha, 39.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Gallon Etra 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.

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  for development of: 1) Retention of extensions to the existing dwelling including two storey extension to the side & single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, internal & external alterations, 2) Retention of the single storey extension to the front of the existing domestic garage / gym, and 3) All ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460146

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 Gallon Etra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gallon Etra.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gallon Etra, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gallon Etra

Area

810,254 m² (81.03 ha, 200.22 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Canningstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

543 people lived in 204 households in the Canningstown electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmone East, Dooreagh, Drutamon, Latsey, Tonyhull

Placenames

Gallon Etra 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.