Castlesaunderson Demesne

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlesaunderson Demesne, from 30 m² to 1,695,155 m² (169.52 ha, 418.88 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlesaunderson Demesne 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.

• 6 Oct 2023Refused

  of an existing prefabricated unit for storage use with hard-standing area surrounding the structure together with improvement works to existing roadside entrance and associated works, all within the curtilage of an existing dwellinghouse

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360217

• 11 Sept 2023N/a

  to retain an existing prefabricated container unit for storage use within the curtilage of an existing dwelling house

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2360175

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  of (1) alterations made to site layout including revised entrance position, (2) revised alterations and amendments made to elevations and floor plans from that previously granted under planning reference no. 04/2038 and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17503

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV011-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Davies (1948, 100) recorded that this site was constructed by Col. Wolseley in 1689. It is now largely occupied by a modern Church of Ireland chapel and graveyard. Bradley and Dunne (OPW 1989, 25-6) were of the opinion that 'it had been originally square with salient angled bastions at each corner'. Only the S side has survived. This comprises a substantial linear earthen rampart with external fosse and bastions at each end. Very slight traces of the NW bastion are also identifiable. The W and E ramparts and the NE bastion have been destroyed as a result of grave-digging. The graveyard wall and the modern roadway at its external foot are built on the site of the N rampart. 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

• CV011-004001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Captain Alexander Saunderson reputedly built a house of lime and stone and a bawn accompanied by two flankers, at this site. It was destroyed during the Williamite wars. The present 'Castle Saunderson' is a composite structure dating to the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. (Hill 1872,54-9; Saunderson 1936, 11-12). 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

• CV011-004002 Bawn
  Description

  Captain Alexander Saunderson reputedly built a house of lime and stone and a bawn accompanied by two flankers, at this site. It was destroyed during the Williamite wars. The present 'Castle Saunderson' is a composite structure dating to the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but the bawn may have been located on the site of the courtyard, just W of the house. (Hill 1877, 54-9; Saunderson 1936, 11-12). 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: 13 April, 2016

• CV011-005 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as a large oval enclosure on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the SW slope of a drumlin hill in a heavily wooded area. Not visible at ground level. 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

• CV011-006 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV011-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Depicted as a small oval enclosure on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Destroyed from SE-S-NNW as a result of road building. Elsewhere site outline is still clearly identifiable despite having been levelled. 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

• Castle Saunderson, country house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor Gothic irregular-plan multiple-bay two- and three-storey country house, built c.1835, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c.1780. Now in ruins. Four-bay two-storey entrance elevation to north having advanced square-plan three-stage tower to west, corner turret to east and engaged octagonal-plan entrance tower with castellated doorcase, mullioned-and transomed hood-moulded windows of varying size and smaller incidental windows. Symmetrical seven-bay east elevation with square-plan corner turrets, central square-plan single-bay three-storey tower with four-stage octagonal-plan corner turrets and wide mullioned-and transomed windows, rendered two-storey flanking bays with stucco detailing. South elevation more informal in composition (access was restricted). Roof no longer extant. Chimneystacks of rock-faced ashlar, main chimneystack as crenellated turrets on profiled corbel tables with clay chimney pots, other chimneystacks simplified versions of these. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced ashlar walls with picturesque arrangement of projecting bays and corner towers, bevelled stone plinth, some bays in smooth ashlar, others with string courses, walls topped by turrets and crenellated parapets. Remains of multiple-pane sash and casement timber windows and one-over-one timber sash windows. Hood profiles to window openings, some with stone mullions and transoms. Slit and cruciform balistraria openings in towers. Doors to front and side elevations in Tudor-arched openings with crenellated stone surrounds. Long castellated arcade screening outbuildings extending to south terminating in castellated turret. Main courtyard west of the house entered through large picturesque gate with tall flanking tower in style of house. Gate elevation of rendered rubble wall with flanking square-plan rock-faced ashlar tower surmounted by octagonal-plan turret with vertical arched openings. Two-storey outbuildings to courtyard, some pitched slate roofs remain, with rubble stone walls, window openings with brick dressings, stone sills, some arched openings to ground floor at north and south outbuildings. Remains of timber sash windows, some with margin panes. Walled garden attached to west and south-west of courtyard. Detached two-storey stone outbuilding with pitched roof in walled area north of walled garden. Long and narrow single-storey formerly glazed arcade attached to south of house with rock-faced ashlar walls with buttresses and crenellations, four large pointed arch openings having turret tower at south end screening narrow yard to rear with single-storey outbuilding opposite. Approach drive to north elevation flanked by low stone wall to east side and terminated by turreted gazebo. Large stepped garden terraces in front of east elevation, stone terrace steps remain. House and outbuildings set in extensive parkland landscape.

• Castle Saunderson, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding neo classical demesne entrance screen, built c.1780. Decorative cast-iron gates, flanked by tall square-profile ashlar piers with V-jointed rustication, square profile string course, large stone block forming frieze with Adamesque ovoid fan in low-relief, and shallow capping stones to top. Decorative wing railings set on low stone parapet walls terminated by square-profile stone piers.

• Castle Saunderson, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Tudor Gothic Church of Ireland church, built c.1835, having three-bay nave, entrance to north-east nave elevation, three-stage turret to north-west, crypt with entrance from south-east. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with roll-mould ridge stones, stone fractables with rolled profile to gables. Corbelled octagonal-profile stone chimneystack surmounting south-east gable with decorative profiled base and profiled collar. Octagonal-profile corner pinnacles similar to gable chimneystack on gabled bases. Concealed gutters, cast-iron downpipes. Octagonal-profile turret as ashlar spire with stone cross to apex, cornice at base with machicolation motif on stepped corbels. Octagonal-plan belfry stage with dressed corner arrises and louvred lancets openings. Square-plan second stage having dressed square-headed openings with hood mouldings. Stepped diagonal buttresses to corners. Square blind windows to lower stage of tower and flanking gable wall in splayed surrounds, lancet window to west side, string course above. Squared coursed rock-faced walls to nave with splayed smooth plinth course. Stepped buttresses to nave bays with diagonal buttresses to corners, rock-faced finish with dressed arrises. Four-centred arched windows to nave with dressed stone surrounds and multiple-pane timber, triple-light timber window in four-centred arched to east gable. Central double-leaf doors with four-centred head to north-east in profiled surround having four-panels each and overpanel with switch-line panel motif. Projecting crypt entrance at south-east gable with stone tomb chest having relief panels supported on a rock-faced base with voussoir relieving arch above a four-centre arched doorway and decorative cast-iron gate. Stone paved ramp to crypt with rock-faced retaining walls. Graveyard to north with monuments. Remains of fluted decorative cast-iron gate post to east.

• Castle Saunderson, bridge, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stone demesne bridge, built c.1835, on approach avenue to Castle Saunderson. Rock-faced walls with large coping stones to parapet having droved arrises. Decorative octagonal-profile posts with profiled pointed caps and 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 20 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 Castlesaunderson Demesne.

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

Name

Castlesaunderson Demesne · Caisleán Shandarsan

Area

3,761,930 m² (376.19 ha, 929.59 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Castlesaunderson, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlesaunderson electoral division: 314 people in 107 households; 88% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlaghaloo, Derryhoo, Drummany, Killyfana, Leggykelly

Placenames

Castlesaunderson Demesne 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.