Castlepoles

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlepoles, from 192 m² to 216,751 m² (21.68 ha, 53.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Castlepoles 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.

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  to retain an existing surfaced yard for storage & sale of Christmas Trees and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 22345

• 20 Apr 2022Conditional

  to construct an agricultural shed which will consist of a milking parlour, cow drafting yard, dairy, plant room and a slatted collection yard with slurry holding tank underneath. Also construct new agricultural machinery entrance and erect meal bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22153

• 19 Oct 2021Refused

  construct specific split level dwelling house and detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21637

• 20 Jan 2021Conditional

  to retain existing underground slatted slurry holding tank and PERMISSION to construct a new five bay shed over existing slatted tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2113

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 Castlepoles.

Recorded monuments

• CV030-003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on a small natural spur on the NW slope of a steep rocky hill. Overlooked by higher ground to the E, S and SW. 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

• CV030-004001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A bawn wall of the Plantation period, constructed of stone and clay was, according to Davies, (1948a, 124-5) situated on an old road a little below the summit of Castlepoles hill. However, local tradition identifies the site of the castle as being c. 85m WSW of this (local information). There are no visible surface remains at either location. 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

• CV030-004002 Bawn
  Description

  A bawn wall of the Plantation period, constructed of stone and clay was, according to Davies, (1948a, 124-5) situated on an old road a little below the summit of Castlepoles hill. However, local tradition identifies the site of the castle as being c. 85m WSW of this (local information). There are no visible surface remains at either location. Date of upload: 12 April, 2016

• CV030-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised almost circular area (int. dims. 28.3m N-S; 31.6m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. At the outer lip of the fosse at W there is a short stretch of counterscarp bank. From WNW-N a modern field bank has been erected along the outer lip of the fosse. Original entrance at SSE represented by a break in the bank with accompanying causeway. 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 Castlepoles.

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 Castlepoles, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlepoles.

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.

• Castlepoles, Arva5 sales

Name

Castlepoles

Area

2,043,492 m² (204.35 ha, 504.96 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Arvagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

967 people lived in 385 households in the Arvagh electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behy, Cordonaghy, Corduff or Cormore, Corradownan, Drumshinny, Forthill, Gorteen or Gorteenaterriff, Lackan

Placenames

Castlepoles 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.