Magheraboy Lower

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheraboy Lower, from 128 m² to 109,578 m² (10.96 ha, 27.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Magheraboy Lower 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.

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  to construct 1 no fully serviced, single storey dwelling, new sewage treatment system & percolation area, private well, new entrance walls and piers and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560241

• 17 Feb 2025Conditional

  for a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560047

• 22 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a two storey four bedroom dwelling to be serviced by proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and a connection to the Ballymachugh group water scheme

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2441

• 29 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct a single storey three-bedroom dwelling, install an approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, a new vehicular entrance off the public road and all necessary ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23323

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  to erect new silage pit with walls and associate concrete, connect effluent to existing silo tank from dungstead and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18391

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 Magheraboy Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CV041-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 67m E-W; c. 49m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank, partly faced with stone externally and incorporated into the field boundary, and a shallow fosse running from NE-S-NNW. 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

• CV041-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Raised oval area (int. dims. 63.2m WNW-ESE; 51.2m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank which has been recently modified and incorporated into the field boundary from N-NNE-E and from SSE-S-W. In addition, a wide cutting has been dug through the perimeter at SW. Original entrance not recognisable. Field-clearance boulders lie at the external foot of the bank at NW. 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 Magheraboy Lower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Magheraboy Lower, 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 the townland of Magheraboy Lower.

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.

No address of the register names Magheraboy Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Magheraboy Lower

Area

959,805 m² (95.98 ha, 237.17 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlumman, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilgolagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

331 people lived in 122 households in the Kilgolagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick, Carrickakillew, Magheraboy Upper, Moydristan, Moynagh Upper, Shankill, Tawlaght

Placenames

Magheraboy Lower 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.