Kevit Upper or Castlecosby

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kevit Upper or Castlecosby, from 144 m² to 439,673 m² (43.97 ha, 108.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kevit Upper or Castlecosby 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kevit Upper or Castlecosby 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 the townland of Kevit Upper or Castlecosby.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-059 Crannog
  Description

  Situated in Castlecosby Lough. Davies (1942, 20; ITA Survey 1942) described a mound c.1.5m above the water-level with 0.9m of this depth comprising habitation refuse, stones and packwork. He also noted that it contained a superimposed cobbled floor and sherds of what appeared to be medieval pottery. Not located. 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

• CV025-063001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Reputedly the site of 'Bunraskeen Castle', a 16th-century structure with two flanking towers formerly positioned at the corners of the yard of 'Castle Cosby' house (Davies 1948a, 97). All that survives is the S portion of the SW tower (int. diam. c. 2.2m) built of roughly coursed limestone masonry. Late medieval stone head in modern dwelling-house nearby (CV025-063002-). A castle at Cavatt (73) is not marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of Kilmore parish. See this web-page accessed on 11-04/2016. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Clonmoghan&c=Cavan 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 revision: 11 April 2016

• CV025-063002 Stone head
  Description

  Built into the wall of a modern dwelling-house, c. 30m SSE of the remains of a 16th-century castle (CV025-063001-). The head has a pointed chin, a flattened nose am slightly bulging eyes and is late medieval in date. 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

• CV025-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A largely ploughed-out, slightly raised circular area (int. dims. 44.6m N-S; 42.5m E-W) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank and a fosse which is identifiable only at NE. Original entrance may have been at SSE. 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

• CV025-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 45m NNE-SSW; 44.5m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Large break in the bank with accompanying causeway at ESE probably represents original entrance. Interior slopes quite steeply 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

• CV025-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  This rath has been ploughed out but its outline is clearly visible. It comprises a slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 34m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse. From W-SSW the perimeter has been destroyed by a long, narrow bank with a trench on either side planted with trees. 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

• Gate lodge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1800, segmental bow added 1856 to avenue elevation, large single-storey extension c.1970 to south-east connected by glazed link. Pitched slate roof, with scalloped slates and overhanging eaves to rounded bow end. Lead-roll ridge and hip with evidence of removed central chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls with channel-jointed pilaster quoins. Three round-headed window openings to bow, central opening originally a door, having moulded surrounds lugged at sill and impost with vermiculated keystones extendind up to soffit of eaves. Roughcast rendered walls to rear having square-headed openings. Replacement aluminium windows to openings. Entrance relocated to extension. Set inside gates to demesne of former Castle Cosby, back from roadside with blank elevation to road. Channelled rendered square-profile gate piers surmounted by urns, flanking decorative cast-iron gates with finials and husks, with aligned railings of similar pattern extending to smaller outer piers. Sweep walls extend in two sections from outer piers to road. Low square-profile roughcast rendered piers to roadside surmounted by cut-stone capstone and carved stone lions, south capstone having raised shield with date 1856 in raised interlaced numerals.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kevit Upper or Castlecosby.

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 Kevit Upper or Castlecosby with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Kevit Upper or Castlecosby

Area

554,173 m² (55.42 ha, 136.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Crossdoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellville, Cauhoo, Gortnashangan Upper or Hermitage, Kevit Lower, Lisnamandra, Tircullen

Placenames

Kevit Upper or Castlecosby 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.