Dowra

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dowra, from 64 m² to 154,106 m² (15.41 ha, 38.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Dowra in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Dowra.

Recorded monuments

• CV005-028 Sweathouse
  Description

  Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Situated on a rough mountainous hillside a short distance from a stream. Small circular drystone-built structure (int. diam. 1.65m) of beehive-type construction, roofed internally by a flat slab. Low lintelled entrance at E (H 0.8m; Wth 0.65m). Richardson (1939, 34) noted a chimney near it. 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

• CV005-029 Sweathouse
  Description

  Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Situated on a steep hillside in rough mountainous terrain. Small circular drystone-built structure (int. diam. 1.6m) of beehive-type construction, roofed internally by a number of flat slabs. Richardson (1939, 34) recorded that two of the closing slabs had fallen. Low lintelled entrance at W (H 0.4m; Wth 0.5m). 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

• CV005-030 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 28.2m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low drystone wall which has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary. At NE the perimeter has been destroyed and replaced by a more substantial modern stone field wall. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV005-031 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 28.6m) enclosed by a low, much-denuded drystone wall. Original entrance may have been at NW. 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

• House, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1770, with formal elevations to front and rear. Steeply pitched slate roof with roll-mould clay ridge tiles, cut stone chimneystacks to gables and off-centre in ridge. Barge coping to south-west and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Squared quarry faced random coursed limestone stone to front elevation, random rubble stone to rear elevation with punched sandstone quoins. Square-headed window openings with sandstone sills and lintels. Two-over-two timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Central square-headed door opening to front, with timber boarded door and single pane overlight. Central square-headed door opening to rear elevation with recent timber door. Single-bay single-storey structure adjoining south gable, now in ruins. Rendered boundary walls with forged iron pedestrian gate. Farmyard to rear with rendered and rubblestone walls to boundaries and outbuildings to west, now disused.

• Dowra Court House, court house, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan six-bay two-storey courthouse, built c.1930, having four-bay recessed central section. Single-storey three-bay extension to north-east and two single-bay single-storey extensions to west. Formerly also in use as Garda Station, now disused. Hipped slate roof with roll-mould clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods on over-sailing eaves supported on decorative modillions. Metal-clad ventilator with conical top to centre of ridge flanked by red brick chimneystacks with brick banding, stone cappings, and clay pots. Flat roof to extensions. Wet dash finish with raised smooth-rendered plinth course and channel-jointed quoins. Round-headed timber sash windows with fixed timber fanlights flanked by round-headed entrance doors with oculi above to recessed central section. Moulded archivolts to entrances on corbel stones at impost level with key stones, original timber fanlights and recent timber boarded doors. Multiple paned casement windows to ends of advanced wings at upper level over tripartite multiple paned timber casement windows. Square-headed window and door openings to inner sides of wings with multiple paned cross-casement windows and recent timber doors having single-pane over-lights. Interior courtroom having compartmented plaster ceiling with single timber truss to centre on scrolled acanthus corbelstones. Timber surround to judge’s entry door. Timber panelled benches to gallery with raised timber panelled bench for judge and clerk. Set back from streetline behind wrought-iron railings on rendered plinth walls, with central ashlar sandstone piers having cut-stone capstones and recent steel gates, with forged-iron pedestrian gate with rendered pier to side.

• Water pump, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, c.1910. Fluted shaft with ogee base. Capital comprising fluted dome with acorn finial and moulded necking with integral spout. Decorative bucket-stand fitted to bottom of shaft. Recent tap to side of cap. Imprint to shaft reading 'SHANNON FOUNDRY LIMERICK'. Set back from streetline on round-profile iron plinth.

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 Dowra, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dowra · An Damhshraith

Area

1,217,957 m² (121.8 ha, 300.96 acres)

Civil parish

Killinagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Dowra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

160 people lived in 72 households in the Dowra electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh Upper (Co. Leitrim), Cordressogagh, Cornageeha (Co. Leitrim), Corradeverrid, Kilduff Middle, Kilduff Upper, Kilmore (Co. Leitrim), Tullaghyrory, Unshinagh

Placenames

Dowra 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.