# Cauran, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumraney, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 512,343 m² (51.23 ha, 126.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,358 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumraney, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/drumraney.md - Barony: Kilkenny West - Electoral division: Ardnagragh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ardnagragh electoral division: 494 people in 152 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51029 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230356 - Centre: latitude 53.472879, longitude -7.804539 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cauran, from 4 m² to 108,733 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 122012: 108,733 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122012.md - Parcel 97649: 62,409 m² (6.24 ha, 15.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97649.md - Parcel 122014: 57,581 m² (5.76 ha, 14.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122014.md - Parcel 122015: 51,989 m² (5.2 ha, 12.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122015.md - Parcel 97650: 46,128 m² (4.61 ha, 11.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97650.md - Parcel 98120: 40,410 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98120.md - Parcel 5001387: 32,634 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5001387.md - Parcel 97190: 28,601 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97190.md - Parcel 120075: 16,856 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120075.md - Parcel 122939: 14,888 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122939.md - Parcel 5773717: 4,985 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5773717.md - Parcel 122013: 4,596 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122013.md - Parcel 216334: 4,505 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/216334.md - Parcel 122115: 4,089 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122115.md - Parcel 5678479: 3,727 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5678479.md - Parcel 4996698: 2,989 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4996698.md - Parcel 5894073: 2,687 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5894073.md - Parcel 122107: 2,637 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122107.md - Parcel 120133: 2,548 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120133.md - Parcel 120131: 2,314 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120131.md - Parcel 122017: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122017.md - Parcel 4795396: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795396.md - Parcel 3294008: 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294008.md - Parcel 120117: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120117.md - Parcel 120132: 1,694 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/120132.md - Parcel 120135: 1,631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/120135.md - Parcel 5931563: 1,222 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5931563.md - Parcel 130292: 845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/130292.md - Parcel 122923: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/122923.md - Parcel 5397340: 4 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5397340.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cauran in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 8 Aug 2026, Westmeath County Council 2660420: N/a. Retention. RETENTION planning permission is for existing vehicle storage and maintenance shed, roadway and entrance, pump house, low garden wall and for the temporary retention of storage container and planning permission is sought for the adjustment of road boundary hedge and for the instillation of septic tank and percolation area and the change of use of small store to toilet and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660420/0 - 9 Jul 2026, Westmeath County Council 2660369: N/a. Permission. to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area and to close up an existing agricultural entrance and construct a new combined domestic and agricultural entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660369/0 - 16 Mar 2021, Westmeath County Council 21127: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21127/0 - 2 Sept 2020, Westmeath County Council 207129: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning permission for the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, domestic garage, new road entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/207129/0 - 23 Aug 2019, Westmeath County Council 197186: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to partially demolish, internally and externally alter and to construct a two storey extension to my family home, permission is also sought to upgrade and replace existing septic tank and percolation area, to demolish existing shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/197186/0 - 8 Apr 2019, Westmeath County Council 197082: Refused. Permission. Partial demolition, internal and external alteration and construction of a two-storey extension to the family home. Permission is also sought to replace existing septic tank & percolation area with new septic tank & percolation area and to demolish existing shed and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/197082/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cauran. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cauran. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cauran. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cauran. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cauran.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cauran.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cauran.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cauran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardnagragh (Digby): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ardnagragh-digby.md - Fearmore: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fearmore-230622.md - Kilkenny Abbey: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kilkenny-abbey.md - Pishanagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/pishanagh-231079.md - Rath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/rath-231115.md - Walderstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/walderstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cauran - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/cauran