Marahill

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Marahill, from 51 m² to 76,542 m² (7.65 ha, 18.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Marahill 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.

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560672

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  to install a new waste water treatment system, polishing filter and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21103

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a two storey detached dwelling, upgrading of existing vehicular entrance onto public roadway, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18269

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 Marahill.

Recorded monuments

• CV035-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and a shallow fosse identifiable only from WNW-NNW. Site is divided into two unequal portions by a field boundary running NNW-SSE, ENE of which there are no visible remains 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

• CV035-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the E shoulder of a drumlin ridge. Site is now occupied by a modern dwelling-house and garden. 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

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey vernacular farm house of hearth-lobby plan form, built c.1840, with gabled porch. Three-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear added c.1920. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, pair of rendered chimneystacks flanking centre bays, concrete barge coping to south gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls, lime washed to front elevation only. Two-over-two timber sash windows to ground and first floor with stone sills. Timber sheeted door and overlight to porch with sandstone flagstone at door. Attached double-height outbuilding to north. Recent farm buildings to west side of rear yard.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Marahill

Area

301,178 m² (30.12 ha, 74.42 acres)

Civil parish

Enniskeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Kingscourt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kingscourt electoral division: 3,705 people in 1,231 households; 66% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Cabra, Cornagee, Corrinshigo, Drumpeak

Placenames

Marahill 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.