Bracklagh

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bracklagh, from 1,803 m² to 70,187 m² (7.02 ha, 17.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Bracklagh 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  for a single storey style dwelling, 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, 2660088

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  for (1) RETENTION of alterations and amendments made during construction to floor plan layouts and elevations of dormer type dwelling extension from that previously granted under planning reference number 02/972 together with PERMISSION to (a) construct a dormer type extension to rear of existing dwelling to incorporate bedroom, living and domestic storage areas, (b) carry out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts, (c) decommission existing septic tank and percolation area, (d) install proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and (e) complete all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460032

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct 1 No. free range poultry house and 1 No. manure store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19359

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 Bracklagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV016-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Not marked on any OS ed. Davies (ITA Survey 1945) recorded a local tradition of a 'fort' at this location. He identified a 'small scarp' which he believed may have represented the remains of an enclosure which has since been levelled. Situated on a drumlin hilltop. Not visible at ground level. 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

• CV016-009 Souterrain
  Description

  Not marked on any OS ed. Davies (ITA Survey 1945) recorded a 'rather rough souterrain' at this location. He described it as being 'walled with boulders' and the roof constructed of rough slabs. The site is now inaccessible. Locally it is believed that the 'cave' was used as a hiding place for the Catholic clergy during Penal times. Situated on the summit of a steep hill in rough terrain. A Mass Rock lies c. 90m to SE. 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 Bracklagh.

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 low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bracklagh

Area

215,011 m² (21.5 ha, 53.13 acres)

Civil parish

Drung, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Drumcarn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarn electoral division: 518 people in 189 households; 92% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corrakeeran, Drumbo, Drumherriff North, Killyrue, Longfield

Placenames

Bracklagh 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.