Cauran

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cauran, from 4 m² to 108,733 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Cauran 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.

• 8 Aug 2026N/a

  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

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2660420

• 9 Jul 2026N/a

  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

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660369

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21127

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  Planning permission for the construction of a new dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, domestic garage, new road entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 207129

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 197186

• 8 Apr 2019Refused

  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.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 197082

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 Cauran.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cauran.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cauran.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

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.

No address of the register names Cauran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Cauran

Area

512,343 m² (51.23 ha, 126.6 acres)

Civil parish

Drumraney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Ardnagragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagragh (digby), Fearmore, Kilkenny Abbey, Pishanagh, Rath, Walderstown

Placenames

Cauran 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.