Killoughter

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killoughter, from 328 m² to 139,032 m² (13.9 ha, 34.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Killoughter 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.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560273

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  to erect fully serviced part two storey, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20560

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 Killoughter.

Recorded monuments

• CV016-069001 Church
  Description

  No surviving remains of church visible at ground level. It formerly stood in an oval-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 31.6m N-S; 48.6m E-W). Davies (1948, 99) identified two c. 15th-century cut-stone architectural fragments which were reused as headstones. 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

• CV016-069002 Graveyard
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV016-069003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Redhills Parochial Hall, church hall/parish hall, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey parochial hall, built c.1880, originally four-bays, now with later extension. External stair leading to first floor to rear elevation. Pitched slate roof with crested ridge tiles, brick stack on the south gable and cast-iron rainwater goods. Plain smooth rendered walls with illegible date stone, rusticated quoins to original block, and platband at sill level of upper floor windows. Decorative fixed metal windows with framed oculi in upper and lower sections and wide margin panes. Square-headed door openings with replacement uPVC doors. Set back from road.

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 5 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 Killoughter.

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

Name

Killoughter · Cill Uachtair

Area

568,142 m² (56.81 ha, 140.39 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, 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

Drumakeenan, Drumeena, Glasdrumman, Kilnacross, Redhill Demesne, Shannow Wood, Stonepark

Placenames

Killoughter 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.