Skeagh

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skeagh, from 31 m² to 175,595 m² (17.56 ha, 43.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Skeagh 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.

• 13 Mar 2026N/a

  to demolish existing outbuilding and construct a single storey extension at the side of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660117

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  for construction of boat jetty, new site entrance, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560606

• 18 Aug 2025N/a

  for alterations to previously approved boat jetty (Pl. Ref 22/251) and site layout and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560482

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  for development consisting of the modification of the existing house which was previously granted under planning references 07/1177 and 03/532 and Retention Permission which will include the following: (a) PERMISSION for changes to the existing internal layout of the house to include an extra bedroom, (b) PERMISSION for changes to existing elevations, (c) PERMISSION for a detached garage, (d) PERMISSION for modifications to road entrance design as previously granted under permission references 07/1177 and 03/532 and associated frontage works, (e) Installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area together with connection to existing services and including all ancillary site works. Also RETENTION to retain alterations to permission references 07/1177 and 03/532 including changes to the elevations of the house and minimally reduced overall floor area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23118

• 3 Mar 2023N/a

  for the modification of the existing house which was previously granted under planning references 07/1177 and 03/532 and retention permission which will include the following: (a) Permission for changes to the existing internal layout of the house to include an extra bedroom (b) Permission for changes to existing elevations (c) Permission for a detached garage (d) Permission for modifications to road entrance design as previously granted under permission 07/1177 and 03/532 and associated frontage works (e) installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area together with connection to existing services and including all ancillary site works. Also, RETENTION for alterations to permission references 07/1177 and 03/532 including changes to the elevations of the house, and minimally reduced overall floor area

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2381

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  to develop a Glamping Site comprising 4 no. self catering glamping pods, install a car parking area, install pedestrian paths, form new entrance from the public road, construct boat jetty on shore of Skeagh Lough, install wastewater treatment unit and percolation area together with all ancillary site works Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22251

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, upgrade existing driveway and entrance onto public road, waste water treatment system, polishing filter, landscaping and associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17116

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 Skeagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-043001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  According to Davies (1948a, 108) a plantation castle with a bawn and two flankers was built by William Hamilton on a low hill W of Skeagh Lough Lower and immediately SE of a 19th-century house and farmyard. The two flankers were incorporated into the farmyard structures, but these had been removed (ibid.). No features are visible now 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: 22 December 2008

• CV028-043002 Bawn
  Description

  According to Davies (1948a, 108) a plantation castle with a bawn and two flankers was built by William Hamilton on a low hill W of Skeagh Lough Lower and immediately SE of a 19th-century house and farmyard. The two flankers were incorporated into the farmyard structures, but these had been removed (ibid.). No features are visible now 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: 12 April 2016

• CV028-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 24m) enclosed by two earthen banks with outer fosses. External fosse has been recut and is now utilised as a field drain. Original entrance not recognisable. 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 Skeagh.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Skeagh · Sceitheach

Area

2,809,876 m² (280.99 ha, 694.34 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skeagh electoral division: 445 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corglass, Corleck, Corrakeeran, Corweelis, Crocknahattin, Derrydamph, Drumeague, Drumhillagh South, Drumkeery

Placenames

Skeagh 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.