Carrickacroy

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickacroy, from 97 m² to 92,252 m² (9.23 ha, 22.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Carrickacroy 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 2021Conditional

  for extension & alterations to existing dwelling to include living area (previous planning 00/1134)

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21243

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 Carrickacroy.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-004 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated near the top of a ridge. This small chamber, 1.2m long and not more than 0.8mwide, is entered from the N. The entrance was formed by two portal-stones with a sill, 0.6m high, between them. The W portal-stone is 1.3m high and the other, now prostrate, would have been of similar height. Single stones form the sides and back of the chamber. All three are about 0.5m lower than the portal-stone. The backstone is gable-shaped and leans inwards. A displaced roofstone lies prostrate to the E of the chamber. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 133, No. 35) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

• St Patrick’s Church Kildrumferton, church/chapel, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding hall-and-tower Church of Ireland church, built 1812, having three-bay nave, three-stage entrance tower to south-west, vestry to north-east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, barge stones with kneelers, cast-iron rainwater goods. Crenellated stone parapet and corner pinnacles to tower. Random rubble stone walls, formerly rendered, with raised block-and-start quoins to nave and vestry. Upper stage of tower with string courses and corner pilasters, block-and-start quoins to lower stages. Square-headed louvred openings to upper belfry, stone dressed oculus to middle stage above dressed pointed arch to entrance. Pointed arch louvred opening with hood profile to middle stage of south-west elevation. Twin-light multiple-pane timber sash windows to nave with switch-line tracery heads and raised dressed stone surrounds and stone sills. Bipartite timber two-over-two sash window to vestry. Timber sheeted doors, glazed timber fanlight with tracery above tower entrance door. Interior with trussed roof structure resting on stone corbels in side walls. Timber sheeted door in pointed arch opening to vestry. Decorative tile to floor in sanctuary area. Timber pews, lectern, pulpit, altar, and altar rails. Graveyard to site with rubble stone boundary walls flanking double-leaf wrought-iron gates in ashlar square-profile piers having bevelled plinths, fluted friezes, and shallow pyramidal caps.

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over-basement rectory, built c.1810, two-storey extension to north-east, advanced canted central porch addition with splayed flight of steps, single-storey outbuilding to north recently converted for domestic use and connected to house. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, pair of recently rendered chimneystacks with clay pots flanking centre bay, replacement rainwater goods. Replacement hipped roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls. Replacement uPVC windows in wide openings at ground level, reduced in width at upper level, having patent reveals with stone and precast concrete sills. Two-over-two timber sash windows to front basement elevation, round-headed multi-pane sash window to north elevation stair landing. Splayed flight of concrete steps to entrance. Outbuildings with pitched slate roofs, some cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered rubble-stone walls with brick dressings to openings, stone voussoirs to carriage arch, some timber sash windows and timber sheeted doors remaining. Rubble stone walls to yard and garden. Chamfered cut-stone gate piers flanking double-leaf wrought-iron 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 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 Carrickacroy.

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

Name

Carrickacroy · Carraigeach Chrua

Area

959,360 m² (95.94 ha, 237.06 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Kilnaleck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaleck electoral division: 1,216 people in 442 households; 69% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crosserlough, Cullow, Druminisclin, Mullacastle, Rockfield

Placenames

Carrickacroy 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.