Blackhills Lower

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackhills Lower, from 35 m² to 167,748 m² (16.77 ha, 41.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  demolish 6 no. existing pig houses and to construct 2 no. pig houses, an extension to 1 no. existing pig house and 1 no. ancillary storage shed together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this application. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21449

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  to retain a) extension to side of existing dwelling b)flat roof porch to front of existing dwelling c)septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20147

• 30 Oct 2019Conditional

  to retain new site entrance to existing dwelling, alterations to site layout and boundaries and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19430

• 14 Oct 2019Refused

  EXTENSION OF TIME 15/113 to decommission 4 no. existing pig houses and to construct extensions to 6 no. existing pig houses to provide replacement pig accommodation and an ancillary feed preparation store, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bins) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013

  Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 19393

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 Blackhills Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CV034-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. c. 19m N-S; c. 18m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide fosse. From NE-S-WSW fosse has been recut and has a modern external bank. Original entrance not recognisable. Inside the bank at N are the remains of what appears to be a small rectangular house site. 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

• CV034-003 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Sited at the foot of a high drumlin hill. Circular area (int. diam. 9m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank. Traces of a possible external fosse at NW and W. Original entrance may have been 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 Blackhills 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 Blackhills Lower, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackhills 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 Blackhills Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Blackhills Lower

Area

965,772 m² (96.58 ha, 238.65 acres)

Civil parish

Moybolgue, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Carnagarve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

627 people lived in 224 households in the Carnagarve electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Blackhills Upper, Carnans Lower, Teevurcher (Co. Meath), Tullynaskeagh

Placenames

Blackhills 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.