Fortland

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortland, from 70 m² to 165,798 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Fortland 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.

• 28 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct a two-storey dwelling, a single storey detached domestic garage and install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area, together with all associated site works, at Fortland, Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan, on behalf of Orna Cassells. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660212

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  1) To demolish a domestic shed and extension to the side and rear of existing two storied dwelling house, 2) To construct a part two storied, part single storied extension to the rear of the dwelling house including internal and external alterations to the house, 3) To close up and decommission an existing septic tank and soak pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 4) All ancillary sites development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560244

• 16 May 2025N/a

  1) To demolish a domestic shed and extension to the side and rear of existing two storied dwelling house, 2) To construct a part two storied, part single storied extension to the rear of the dwelling house including internal and external alterations to the house, 3) To close up and decommission an existing septic tank and soak pit and to install a new proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 4) All ancillary sites development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560242

• 7 Sept 2022Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION of 17/367: to construct a five bay slatted shed with an underground slurry holding tank and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 22365

• 10 Nov 2021Conditional

  for alterations & dormer extension to side elevation of the existing dwelling to include entrance hall, utility room, toilet, kitchen, pantry, dining, living area and at first floor, a bedroom, dressing and bathroom

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21682

• 3 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and ancillary site services and development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21664

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  construct silage pit with retaining walls and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21379

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  construct dwelling house and domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and ancillary site services and development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21372

• 13 Dec 2017Refused

  to construct new entrance walls, piers, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17521

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  to construct a five bay slatted shed with an underground slurry holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17367

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  to decommission and relocate the existing septic tank as constructed under PL64/7401 and permission to construct a new sewage treatment plant and percolation area within the boundary of my existing site and attached ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17361

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Sheelin SPA 004065
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Sheelin 000987

Recorded monuments

• CV038-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Large raised circular area (int. diam. 71m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a fosse which is identifiable from W-N-E. Original entrance not recognisable. Situated within a former tree plantation. Site is not marked on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. 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

• CV038-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 33m) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide, deep intermediate fosse. A modern field boundary merges with the outer face of the counterscarp bank at SE. Breaks in banks with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. (CUCAP ALJ 74) 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

• CV038-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 68m) enclosed by a low earthen bank which is no longer identifiable from NE-SE. Original entrance not recognisable. The rath has been planted with trees. 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

• CV038-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 38m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Break in bank at N may represent original entrance. (CUCAP ALJ 77) 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

• CV038-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Large circular area (int. diam. 102m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse identifiable only in SE quadrant. A modern drain occurs at the external foot of bank in NE quadrant. The site is divided into four roughly equal portions by a crossroads. The NW and SW quadrants have been levelled and no surface remains are now identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. The site was formerly utilised as a tree-ring. (CUCAP ALJ 77) 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

• CV038-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 41m) enclosed by a very low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse outside of which is an apparently modern low counterscarp bank. An earlier report (OPW 1970) suggested that the original entrance may have been at ENE. (CUCAP ALJ 73) 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

• Gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey with dormer attic gate lodge, built c.1830, with principal gabled elevation facing to drive, windbreak to largely unfenestrated road elevation, late-nineteenth century addition forming L-plan with unfenestrated gable at roadside. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, oversailing verge with bargeboards, and timber brackets forming broken pediment facing drive. Concrete barge coping to addition and forming roof of windbreak. Central rendered brick chimneystacks to lodge and addition, steel rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls, random rubble to gable of addition. Square-headed window openings, widened to north gable, attic having bipartite six-pane casement window with timber mullion, all with limestone sills. Timber boarded doors with limestone thresholds. Corrugated-iron lean-to and outbuilding to rear of addition. Opens onto forecourt enclosed by convex quadrant wing of gate screen, comprising cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials on ashlar plinth, double-leaf demesne gates in ashlar piers, symmetrical quadrant to north of gates, rubble stone wall between south pier and gable of addition. Wrought-iron gate encloses site of gate lodge inside demesne 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 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 Fortland.

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

Name

Fortland

Area

1,634,201 m² (163.42 ha, 403.82 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymachugh, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Ballymachugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymachugh electoral division: 838 people in 276 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crover, Lavagh, Lisduff, Omard, Turin

Placenames

Fortland 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.