Munlough North
Townland in the civil parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan; in Irish Mionlach Thuaidh
Parcel 478409
- Area
- 858 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 50 m² on the ground
- 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
- Munlough North
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 41.3 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,210 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Munlough North, from 181 m² to 63,385 m² (6.34 ha, 15.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Munlough North 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Apr 2026Conditional
to make the following modifications to a recently permitted development to construct a self-contained detached single storey family flat to existing dwelling house, install new approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, and all associated development works (Planning Reg. No. 25/60612), The development will consist of. (1) Revised floor plans & elevations of single storey family flat from that previously approved. Overall floor area is to be reduced
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660178
23 Oct 2025Conditional
to renovate existing derelict cottage, erect single storey rear extension, alterations to building elevations & internal layout, modify existing site entrance & erect piers, install wastewater treatment system & Ecoflo Coco Filter and all ancillary site works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560640
15 Oct 2025Conditional
to construct a self-contained detached single storey family flat to existing dwelling house, together with the installation of an approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, and all associated site development works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560612
6 Aug 2025N/a
to construct a new single storey dwelling house, form new combined vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560445
18 Aug 2020Conditional
to retain (A) alterations to floor plans and elevations from previously approved dwelling under planning ref. no. 0561, first floor residential accommodation, additional rooflights, increased ridge height of dwelling house, (B) Retain position of dwelling and alterations to south boundary from previously approved under planning ref. no. 0561, and (C) Retain garage as constructed and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20350
3 May 2017Conditional
to retain and complete a fully serviced single storey dwelling with attic accommodation, detached domestic garage, sewage treatment unit, percolation area, entrance walls & piers, together with all associated works as approved under planning reference 10/79
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17177
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Munlough North.
Recorded monuments
- CV009-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. dims. 38.7m NW-SE; 36.9m NE-SW) enclosed by the remains of a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Bank has been reduced down to level of interior, and fosse infilled from SW-W-N. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Munlough North.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1816 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Munlough North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Munlough North · Mionlach Thuaidh
- Area
- 413,224 m² (41.32 ha, 102.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeport, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhaw
- Electoral division
- Bawnboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bawnboy electoral division: 625 people in 229 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cavanaquill, Clontycarnaghan, Corneen, Keenagh, Killywaum, Kilsallagh, Munlough South, Urhannagh
- Placenames
- Munlough North 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.