Cloverhill Demesne

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloverhill Demesne, from 611 m² to 12,289 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Cloverhill 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.

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  for an additional new extension to the previously granted development (planning reference number 23267 - currently under construction), alterations to site layout / yard area, revise site boundaries and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660432

• 28 Jan 2026N/a

  for the construction of single storey extension with a basement to the side of existing dwelling with external lift, garden room & terrace area at ground floor level (basement level to contain swimming pool, gym & associated areas) and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660031

• 18 Sept 2025N/a

  to construct new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, to decomission existing wastewater treatment system and carry out associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2538

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  to carry out the following alterations & works to an existing dwelling house. (1) To demolish single storey section to side & rear of dwelling house; together with detached domestic garage to side of property, and disused outbuilding to the rear of the property. (2) To construct a new part single storey & part two-storey extension to side & rear of existing dwelling house building. (3) To make some minor alterations to the front elevation of the dwelling house, and (4) To upgrade existing septic tank system to a new approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560031

• 26 Jul 2023Conditional

  to 1. demolish existing single storey toilet block and canteen. 2. demolish existing assembly shed 3. demolish existing steel cutting building and associated parts 4. construct extension to existing workshop building to accomodate - steel cutting and fabrication. 5. construct extension to existing workshop building to accomodate paint shed. 6. construct new ESB sub station and associated works 7. re-arrange existing yard area. 8. Provide screening and landscaping. 9. And carry out associated site works. 10. to RETAIN fabrication and assembly building

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23267

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct new waste water treatment system and percolation area, to decommission existing waste water treatment system and carry out associated site and ancillary works at The Old Post Inn (which is a Protected Structure)

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18169

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV015-011 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CV015-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 42.5m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse. Fosse and bank have been modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Original entrance not recognisable. The centre of the enclosed area is occupied by a large circular platform (diam. 24.3m; H 0.6m) with slight traces of an enclosing low earthen bank about its perimeter. 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

• Cloverhill, country house, 1795–1805 · National interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1800 incorporating an earlier two-storey over basement block, built 1758, attached to rear. Now in ruins. Roof to main house no longer extant, pitched slate roof to rear, hipped at junction to main house. Pair of symmetrical ashlar chimneystacks with clay pots, two brick chimneystacks to rear block. Sandstone cornice, rubble stone walls with brick dressing and stone sills to window openings to north elevation. Lucarne windows to third floor of north side elevation with sandstone cheeks and pediments. Sandstone doorcase to main entrance with timber panelled double doors and flanking windows, portico no longer extant. Remains of two-over-two timber sash windows. Brick vaults and arches to basement ceiling of main house. Stone and timber stairs remain in interior of rear wing, also timber windows and shutters. Cast-iron cooking ranges in ground floor kitchen in rear wing. Detached stable ruin directly south-west of house with rubble stone walls and brick bellcote to gable. Two-storey detached outbuilding south of stable with slate roof, rubble stone walls, brick dressing to openings and timber sash windows. Outbuildings arranged around courtyard. Walled garden further to the south.

• Saint John's Church (Annagh), church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1856, with three-bay nave and diagonally positioned three-stage entrance tower and spire to south-west corner, chancel to east, and vestry to south-east. Steeply pitched slate roof to nave and chancel, clay ridge tiles, stone weatherings to barges, cast-iron gutters on decorative cast-iron brackets. Octagonal-profile ashlar spire with lucarnes and weathervane above octagonal ashlar belfry stage. Pointed openings to belfry with hood mouldings over triangular stone weatherings forming transition to square-plan lower stages of tower over tiered diagonal corner buttresses. Squared rock-faced limestone walls to lower stages of tower and nave. Wall buttresses to north side of nave, tiered diagonal buttresses to corners of chancel and north corner of nave. Cusped lancet windows to nave with ashlar surrounds and metal lattice windows with ventilation lights, twin-light stone tracery windows to west gable and to centre bay of north having hood moulding on carved head labels, triple-light tracery with quinfoil roundel and stained glass windows to chancel window. Pointed arch double-leaf studded timber main entrance door with ornate strap hinges, set in recessed and bevelled surround with hood moulding. Square-headed vestry door with corbelled lintel and studded timber door with ornate strap hinges. Exposed timber rafters and paired trusses standing on corbels to interior. Timber sills and timber dado to ends of nave. Decorative tiled floor to aisle, entrance area, and area in front of altar, raised timber floor under pews, steps to altar area. Timber pulpit, altar, and pews with curved end to pew at entrance. Graveyard to site, surrounded by recent stone boundary walls with metal entrance gates.

• Cloverhill, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance screen, built c.1800, comprising pedimented round-arch vehicular entrance flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances set in walls terminated with square-profile piers. Ashlar sandstone piers with impost course supporting arch with moulded cornice to pediment. Flanking lined-and-ruled rendered walls with ashlar limestone surrounds to pedestrian entrances, with square-profile ashlar limestone end piers. One leaf of wrought-iron vehicular gates missing, single leaf wrought-iron gates to pedestrian entrances. Rubble stone flanking sweep walls.

• Teacher's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Victorian Picturesque style L-plan two-bay two-storey former school master’s house, built c.1860, with advanced gabled bay and gable fronted side porch to south. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves and verges having timber soffit on regular spaced timber brackets, decorative clay ridge tiles, brick chimney, cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with raised red brick block-and-start quoins. Window openings with raised block-and-start and stone sills, having side hung timber casement windows with transoms to first floor, and corresponding tripartite casement window to ground floor. Brick canted bay window to advanced bay having hipped slate roof rising to upper floor sill. Brick entrance porch with timber panelled entrance door. Timber sheeted rear door. Rubble stone outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof. Opens to front garden facing east to Cloverhill village. Straight drive to north side leads to ruin of associated former Cloverhill School beside meeting hall.

• Cloverhill, gate lodge, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Arts-and-Crafts three-bay two-storey former estate farm manager's house, built c.1890, incorporating fabric of earlier gate lodge, having carved timber entrance canopy, gabled single storey side wing, and lean-to to rear with recent extension. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof, with catslide roof extending over lean-to, decorative clay ridge tiles, lead-roll to hips. Pitched oversailing roofs to lucarnes with decorative fretwork bargeboards. Decorative gable panels to lucarnes, wing, porch and lean-to. Paired brick chimneystacks flanking centre bay, cast-iron rainwater goods supported on moulded brick corbels. Brick walls in stretcher bond having sandstone band at upper floor sill level, earlier brick in Flemish bond to canted west end. Rubble stone walls with brick quoins to east wing. Half-timbered jettied lucarnes to upper floor, having four-pane overlight with spun glass over single pane casement having decorative spandrel. Round-headed window openings in canted end set in recessed blind arches. Sandstone lintels to other ground floor windows having casement windows with four-pane ventilation lights. Two-over-two sash window to wing. Recent windows to rear. Elaborate turned timber posts to entrance porch, having six-panelled original door with multiple-pane overlight.

• Bridge, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch stone bridge, built 1885, formerly spanning railway track. Squared and snecked rock-faced walls with segmental arches having rock-faced voussoirs with dressed arris on prominent skewbacks. Upper portion of rebuilt in rubble stone with Scotch coping.

• Cloverhill, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former gate lodge, built c.1840, with gabled porch and recent lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof wide overhanging eaves having timber eaves brackets, centrally located brick chimneystack at ridge, and uPVC rainwater goods. Projecting pitched slate roof to porch with fretwork to bargeboards and gable apex, timber posts missing. Random coursed rubble stone walls with squared cornerstones. V-jointed stucco rustication to porch. Replacement timber casement windows with patent reveals, stone sills, and block and start brick dressings, recent timber Tudor hoods to ground floor. Replacement timber panelled door.

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 Cloverhill Demesne, 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 high, 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 Cloverhill Demesne.

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

Name

Cloverhill Demesne

Area

1,234,666 m² (123.47 ha, 305.09 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Castlesaunderson, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnalitteragh, Corrarod, Drumcrow, Drumellis, Knockateery, Parisee, Rahellistin

Placenames

Cloverhill 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.