Killygowan

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killygowan, from 591 m² to 185,639 m² (18.56 ha, 45.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 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.

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  for changes made from previous planning reference no. 04/2680 at Drummullan, Cavan, Co. Cavan, H12 FC66 by Dermot & Gillian Madden to include the following: West (Front) Elevation: (i) Addition of an arch over the front door. (ii) Relocation of two chimneys externally to both gables. (iii) Addition of a chimney internally at the apex of the roof. North (Left) Elevation: (iv) Addition of a window to the first floor Bedroom 1. East (Rear) Elevation: (v) Construction of a new living area at ground floor level. (vi) Extension of Bedroom 3 at first floor level and addition of a balcony. South (Right) Elevation: (vii) Addition of windows to the first floor, including Bedroom 3, Bedroom 2, and its ensuite - And all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Cavan County Council, 2560333

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV020-052 Ringfort - unclassified
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Rose Cottage, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey with dormer attic lobby-entry thatched vernacular house, built c.1780, extended to the west in 1980 and north-west in 2004 in style to imitate original house. Hipped water reed roof having raised ridge course with latticed scallops, rendered chimneystack. Lime rendered random rubble and mud walls with slight batter, mud north wall collapsed and rebuilt in rubble stone in 1980. Square-headed window openings with painted cut stone sills and three-over-six timber sash windows, recent sash windows to extension. Windbreak porch having square-headed door opening with replacement timber matchboard half-door. Pitched canopy over glazed and panelled door to extension. Set back from road, bounded by low rubble stone wall. Outbuilding, 2004, to north of house.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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.

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

Name

Killygowan

Area

1,190,480 m² (119.05 ha, 294.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Carrafin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrafin electoral division: 439 people in 147 households; 89% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derryheen, Derrywinny, Drumard, Drummonum, Drummullan

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.