Pottlereagh

Area

33,575 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Pottlereagh

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• CV018-005 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope with a drumlin rising c. 300m to the SW and it is at the head of a small NW-SE valley. This dual court tomb was excavated by H. E. Kilbride-Jones in 1949 (1951). Aligned N-S, both tombs were within the same cairn (dims 24.5m N-S; c. 13.5m E-W). The court at N is U-shaped (dims 6.4m E-W; 4.6m N-S) while the perimeter of the southern court describes two-thirds of a circle (diam. c. 5.5m). The excavator recorded two banks overlying four post-holes closing the N court while a row of three post-holes could have closed the S court. Sockets provide evidence of facades linking both courts to the E kerb of the cairn represented now by a few kerbstones but numerous sockets were recorded in excavation. No evidence of the W side of the cairn was recovered. Each gallery (Wth 1.3-1.75m) is divided by jambs and a low sill into two chambers, the outer in each case being longer and wider than the inner. At the N the outer chamber (L c. 3m) leads to a shorter inner chamber (L c. 2.25m), while at the S the outer chamber is c. 2.6m long and the inner is c. 2.15m. A closed central chamber (L 2.25m) links the ends of both galleries, although it is represented by sockets on the W side. Evidence of paving was noted in the N court and some of the chambers. Traces of fires were also found in some of the chambers. The cremated and inhumed bones in the front chamber of the S gallery and a few teeth found in the closed central chamber during the excavation represent at least three individuals. Part of a Neolithic pottery bowl was also recovered in the outer chamber of the S gallery. (Kilbride-Jones 1951, 75-88; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 122-3, No. 22) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 179/1946), and is a National Monument in state guardianship (No. 456) accessed from the R191 Shercock to Cootehill oad c. 60m to the S, but there is no convenient safe parking. 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. See the attached views: _1 from NE; _2 from NW; _3 from SW; _4 from S Date of revision: 27 July 2018 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.