Killygowan
Townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 48.4 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,680 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygowan, from 32 m² to 153,392 m² (15.34 ha, 37.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killygowan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Mar 2026Conditional
for demolition of existing derelict dwelling and erection of dormer dwelling with basement, install wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary works. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660143
31 May 2022Conditional
for the construction of a single storey sunroom extension to existing dormer style bungalow dwelling, internal and external alterations to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22220
25 May 2022Conditional
to construct a dormer bungalow. Works include construction of entrance walls/piers, new effluent treatment plant and percolation area and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22204
2 Mar 2022Conditional
for single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2281
1 Apr 2020Conditional
to retain (a) two storey residential extension to northeast side (rear) of existing dwelling with alterations to floor plans and elevations including front porch of previously approved permission, Planning Ref No. 08/50 together with (b) PERMISSION for two storey residential extension to west side an associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20122
23 Oct 2018Conditional
to retain alterations to existing development previously approved and commenced under planning reference no. 02/1417 which includes (a) alterations to site boundaries (b) conversion of first floor attic to habitable space (c) alterations to floorplans/elevations including increased ridge height and rooflights to rear elevation of existing dormer dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18445
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killygowan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killygowan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killygowan.
- 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. 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Killygowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Killygowan
- Area
- 484,236 m² (48.42 ha, 119.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Electoral division
- Killashandra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killashandra electoral division: 1,092 people in 438 households; 73% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghabane, Coolnashinny or Croaghan, Disert, Drumbinnis, Drumgoohy, Druminiskill, Mullaghmullan
- Placenames
- Killygowan 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.