Thornhill or Mullandreenagh

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thornhill or Mullandreenagh, from 2,212 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 303,715 m² (30.37 ha, 75.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Thornhill or Mullandreenagh 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.

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  for (a) removal of existing dwelling roof complete and replace with new first floor structure (b) new front porch (c) single storey rear extension for utility room (d) demolition of one existing shed (e) replacement/upgraded wwts (f) demolition of domestic shed (g) temporary retention of mobile home

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560420

• 22 Sept 2020Conditional

  for (a) milking parlour with dairy, feed passage, slatted sections, underground storage tanks and external agitation points (b) silage pit (c) meal storage shed, (d) concrete aprons and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20421

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 Thornhill or Mullandreenagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV001-019 Church
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1991) and classified 'Church and Graveyard'. Not included in the RMP (1997). Depicted on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure with a church shown in the SW corner. There is no evidence that either the church or the graveyard are pre-1700 in date. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Largy Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1797, with three-stage entrance tower and spire to south. Now in ruins. Tower with octagonal spire and pyrmidal pinnacles to angles, ruins of adjoining south gable and west wall still extant. Squared rubble stone to tower with remnants of roughcast render, rubble stone to nave. Square-headed window openings to upper stage, plain string courses above and below middle stage. Round-arch opening to east of ground level stage forming main entrance to church. Set within graveyard with grave markers, enclosed by rubble stone boundary walls.

• Worker's house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with dormer attic railway level crossing keeper's house, built 1859, with flat-roofed entrance porch. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rooflights to south, timber fascias and barge boards, brick chimneystack to centre of ridge and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Squared coursed roughly punched rubble stone walls with finely punched quoins. Square-headed window openings with brick reveals, stone lintels, and sills. Three-over-three timber sash windows to north elevation, window to gable above entrance porch now boarded-up. Circular opening at low level to north elevation with single-pane perspex window. Recent timber doors to front and rear. Set back from road with sunken paving to perimeter and short rubblestone retaining wall to road. Low dry-stone wall to south and east boundary.walled yard to south with outbuilding. Single-pitched corrugated iron roof to outbuilding. Rock-faced walls with droved edges, sandstone coping to yard walls.

• Post box, 1930–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pier-mounted cast-iron post box, installed c.1950, with raised "P&T" initials in Gaelic script and inscribed with manufacturer's name 'Jessop Davis, Enniscorthy'. Set into rubble stone pier with pyramidal capstone and rendered finish forming chamfered surround to post box. Pier terminates low rubble stone wall forming south-east corner of crossroads with farm buildings at other end.

• Upper Thornhill House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, with gable-fronted porch to front added c.1880. Irregular fenestration to rear with lean-to porch. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks to gables and to centre of ridge, south stack having decorative clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods with hopper head to north gable, decorative timber bargeboards to porch. Smooth ruled-and-lined rendered walls to front, roughcast rendered walls to rear. Cut stone block and start quoins to front porch. Square-headed window openings with droved sandstone sills, having six-over-six sliding sash windows with convex horns to rear and north gable windows, one six-over-six surviving to front elevation, otherwise one-over-one and later replacements with one eight-over-eight window at ground level, one eight-over-eight also to rear. Gable fronted porch off-centre to front with recent multi-paned window, door opening to side facing north with recent timber door. Retaining internal timber panelled shutters. Stone-flagged kitchen to north of central chimney and porch with wide elliptical arched hearth recess having stone voussoirs. Farm yard and outbuildings to rear. Plain wrought-iron gates and railings on sandstone plinths with cast-iron piers having rope-moulding and ball finials to road side.

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 Thornhill or Mullandreenagh, about 1 in 5 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 Thornhill or Mullandreenagh.

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 Thornhill or Mullandreenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Thornhill or Mullandreenagh · Mullán Draighneach

Area

682,914 m² (68.29 ha, 168.75 acres)

Civil parish

Killinagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Eskey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

322 people lived in 74 households in the Eskey electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barran, Gortaquill, Killycarney, Kiltomulty, Loughan, Port, Roo

Placenames

Thornhill or Mullandreenagh 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.