Mountnugent

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountnugent, from 60 m² to 107,921 m² (10.79 ha, 26.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  to carry out renovations to existing two storey dwelling townhouse and part of property previously known as ‘Magee’s Drapery’ at Mountnugent, Co. Cavan, A82 WP02. Works to include: - demolish and rebuild side extension; demolish existing attached side covered storage area previously occupied by Magee’s Drapery and convert the space to yard / private open space; associated alterations to elevations and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460387

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  to retain a detached, single storey domestic garage, ancillary rooms and associated siteworks

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17186

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 Mountnugent.

Recorded monuments

• CV038-049 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A field report, dated 2 April 1986, records a grotto in the graveyard to the NE of St Brigid's Church and that 'a stone taken from the possible church site at Aghnaskeagh [see CV042-001001-] was at the base of this grotto. The grotto is set in a curving stone wall , the base of which is rather overgrown.' The 'stone' was located at this time and its present whereabouts are unknown. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 January 2017

• CV038-049001 Graveyard
  Description

  This is the graveyard attached to the 19th century St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church (see CV038-049002-). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 January 2017

• CV038-049002 Church
  Description

  Described in the Inventory of Irish Architectural Heritage as follows: 'Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, with three-bay nave, single bay transepts, Gothic Revival chancel and sacristy extensions c.1890, wider full-height narthex added c.1950. Pitched slate roof, roll-mould clay ridge tiles, sprocketed over sides of narthex, ashlar limestone roll-moulded fractables to chancel and sacristry on corbelled kneelers with gablets, and stepped limestone chimneystack to sacristy, with cast-iron crucifixes to gables, aluminium rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with raised channel-jointed quoins and plinth, limestone eaves course continuing as string course to gables. Rock-faced limestone chancel having smooth limestone quoins and moulded sill course. Roughcast walls to sacristy with ashlar limestone quoins and surrounds. Pointed arch leaded stained glass windows to nave and transepts. Carved stone tracery to chancel window having trefoil rose over triple trefoil-headed lights with stained glass window, hood moulding, and banded relieving arch. Main gable of c.1950 having stained-glass oculus with hood moulding over block-and start ashlar doorcase set in advanced rock-faced limestone projection with battered sides and stepped coping, narrow triple lancets to outer bays. Sheeted timber door, similar to north transept with limestone surround. Segmental-headed timber boarded door to porch, having roll-moulded limestone lintel and block-and-start surround. Interior having facetted plaster ceiling with moulded cornice and fluted timber beams rising from colonettes on stone wall brackets. Figurative stained glass to chancel window with hood mould over. Timber gallery to entrance end. Historic pews. Cast-iron belfry to south with decorative columns and cast-iron bell on concrete plinth. Site bounded by rendered stone walls. http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV&regno=40403810 (accessed 16 January 2017) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 January 2017

• CV038-050 Mass-rock
  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.

• CV038-073 Headstone
  Description

  Situated against the N bank of an E-W section of the road from Mountnugent to Aghanskeagh, and c. 170m from the centre of Mountnugent. It was brought to attention by Alan Mc Millan. The top part of a headstone is a roughly triangular sandstone (Wth 0.85m; H 0.75m; T 0.1m) and is inscribed in roman letters. It reads: IHS / PRAY FOR THE / SOUL OF / PHILIP REILLY / DHO DIED AUGUST / THE 30 / 1759 AGED 25 / AND JUSTINE NELLY REIL / LY WHO DIED THE 16 / OF JANUARY 1751 AGED 21. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 August, 2016

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-span limestone road bridge, built c.1750, over tributary to Lough Sheelin, with possible extension to north c.1820. Uncoursed random rubble spandrels and parapet with battered stone copings to east and Scotch copings to west. Round arches with regular roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, random rubble barrel on wide piers having rubble stone V-cutwaters on recent concrete footings to upstream elevation. Uncoursed random rubble wing walls battered at base.

• St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, with three-bay nave, single bay transepts, Gothic Revival chancel and sacristy extensions c.1890, wider full-height narthex added c.1950. Pitched slate roof, roll-mould clay ridge tiles, sprocketed over sides of narthex, ashlar limestone roll-moulded fractables to chancel and sacristry on corbelled kneelers with gablets, and stepped limestone chimneystack to sacristy, with cast-iron crucifixes to gables, aluminium rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with raised channel-jointed quoins and plinth, limestone eaves course continuing as string course to gables. Rock-faced limestone chancel having smooth limestone quoins and moulded sill course. Roughcast walls to sacristy with ashlar limestone quoins and surrounds. Pointed arch leaded stained glass windows to nave and transepts. Carved stone tracery to chancel window having trefoil rose over triple trefoil-headed lights with stained glass window, hood moulding, and banded relieving arch. Main gable of c.1950 having stained-glass oculus with hood moulding over block-and start ashlar doorcase set in advanced rock-faced limestone projection with battered sides and stepped coping, narrow triple lancets to outer bays. Sheeted timber door, similar to north transept with limestone surround. Segmental-headed timber boarded door to porch, having roll-moulded limestone lintel and block-and-start surround. Interior having facetted plaster ceiling with moulded cornice and fluted timber beams rising from colonettes on stone wall brackets. Figurative stained glass to chancel window with hood mould over. Timber gallery to entrance end. Historic pews. Cast-iron belfry to south with decorative columns and cast-iron bell on concrete plinth. Site bounded by rendered stone walls.

• St Bride's Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival hall-and-tower church, built 1804, with three-stage tower flanked by lean-to vestry and ancillary space, two-bay nave, and shallow gabled chancel. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, limestone barge copings with pedestal over nave gable, cast-iron rainwater goods. Single pitched slate roofs to flanking tower blocks, altered from original form with platband to gables at eaves level. Crenellated ashlar parapet to tower having corner pinnacles with ball finials. Plat bands below and further platbands marking stages of random-rubble tower. Pointed and louvred belfry opening to upper stage, medallions to middle stage, one inscribed 'The / Ground on which / this Church is erected / was the Gift of Oliver / Nugent of Bobsgrove Esq / to the parish of Kilbride / the Rt. Hon:ble & R. Rev. / Thos. L. O. Beirne Bishop / Rev. Thos. Fred. Knipe / Rector M. Chris. Spin[?] / C. Warden / 1804'. Pointed arch door opening with square-headed replacement door and overlight, limestone surrounds with concave-profile hood moulding over carved inset blocks. Multiple-pane lancets flank doors in tower flanking blocks. Random rubble walls to nave having decorative limestone plaque to south reading, "LIFE / MORE ABUNDANTLY. / ST. JOHN 10 V. 10." Pointed arch twin-light multiple-pane timber windows to nave with sliding bottom sash, leaded stained glass twin-light window to chancel, all having dressed limestone surrounds and tooled sills. Moulding at sill level to interior, and sloped plaster ceiling with Gothic Revival timber cornice. Bench pews on raised timber floor. Geometric encaustic tiles in front of chancel. Tiled chancel raised over two stone steps having timber panelling up to sill level on three sides with decorative ironwork supporting timber altar rail. Panelled timber gallery on octagonal-profile columns having profiled capitals to west end, with responding pilasters to side walls. Flagstone floor to lobby. Dressed limestone staircase to tower. Set within graveyard and surrounded by cast-iron railings on rendered boundary walls flanking with double-leaf cast-iron gates set in octagonal-profile cut-stone posts with profiled caps.

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 Mountnugent, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mountnugent · Droichead Uí Dhálaigh

Area

553,382 m² (55.34 ha, 136.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

998 people lived in 338 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghawonan, Ballaghanna, Garrysallagh (O'Reilly), Lisnabrinnia, Pollareagh, Racraveen, Tullyagan

Placenames

Mountnugent 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.