Bavan

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bavan, from 221 m² to 293,763 m² (29.38 ha, 72.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Bavan 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.

• 21 Apr 2026Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650059

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561483

• 2 Dec 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF: (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING LIVING ROOM AND PROVISION FOR NEW EXTENSION AND (2) INCREASED RIDGE HEIGHT TO THE MAIN DWELLING WITH ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461966

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351259

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151100

• 25 Jan 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150076

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 Bavan.

Recorded monuments

• DG097-005001 Standing stone
  Description

  Two former standing stones now collapsed 2.8m apart. The E stone which is irregularly shaped is 3.85m × 0.3m to 1.35m × 0.28m to .63m. The W stone is 2m × 0.77m to 1.07m × 0.2m. They are located on the top of a NNW-SSE ridge at its NNW end, in fairly good pasture land. The ridge is surrounded by rough bog-covered grazing land on the N, E and W. Fagan (Bk. 19, 28) recorded a large cairn near to these stones which had been removed by 1847. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG097-005002 Standing stone
  Description

  Two former standing stones now collapsed 2.8m apart. The E stone which is irregularly shaped is 3.85m × 0.3m to 1.35m × 0.28m to .63m. The W stone is 2m × 0.77m to 1.07m × 0.2m. They are located on the top of a NNW-SSE ridge at its NNW end, in fairly good pasture land. The ridge is surrounded by rough bog-covered grazing land on the N, E and W. Fagan (Bk. 19, 28) recorded a large cairn near to these stones which had been removed by 1847. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG097-005003 Cairn - 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.

• DG097-020 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This excavated monument is c. 7km W of Killybegs. It stands at the head of a rocky, bog-grown valley and overlooks two other excavated court tombs Shalwy (Dg. 113), 400m to the SW, and Croaghbeg (Dg. 40), a further 200m to the SW. The last is c. 300m from a small sandy beach on the N side of Donegal Bay, across which there is an extensive outlook to the north Connacht coastline. Ten stones stood here, and others lay prostrate when Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited the monument in 1847, but by the mid-20th century only six orthostats were visible (de Valera 1960). The excavation, conducted over two seasons in 1964 and 1965 (Flanagan and Flanagan 1966), revealed much of the ground plan of the monument. This showed an oval full court, at the SE, leading to a gallery divided by jambs into two chambers. The structure stood in a cairn delimited by a revetment of drystone-walling. The plan published here is based on the excavators' plan (Flanagan and Flanagan 1966). The stones shown hatched thereon are those still extant. Excavation showed that the cairn had been levelled, apparently deliberately, but the basal layer of its dry-wall revetment, in which outcrops of rock had been incorporated, was found to have survived largely intact. Some of the stones in this layer were extremely small, and none rose more than 0.2m above original ground level. A spread of cairn material beyond the revetment was, in the opinion of the excavators, due either to primary collapse or to the later levelling of the cairn. The revetment delimited a cairn 19m long. The cairn was 10-11m wide for the greater part, but it narrowed to front and back, although the precise outline at the back was not apparent. On the basis of the configuration of the collapsed cairn material at the NW comer, the excavators postulated that the cairn edge here would have been c. 1m high and composed of at least seven courses of dry-walling. The cairn, of local quartzite rubble, had been carefully built in places. The excavators cite the example of the deliberate placing of large 'key-stones' immediately N of the front chamber of the gallery to anchor the cairn body. At other points, however, the cairn stones appear simply to have been dumped. Access to the court was via an entrance passage c. 2m long and 1.2m wide in the front of the cairn. Low stones formed the sides of the passage, which had been blocked with large stones (Flanagan and Flanagan 1966, 33). The oval court was c. 6m long and 5m wide. An arc of five orthostats forms its inner end. Two of these, 0.55m apart, served as the entrance jambs to the gallery. The northern one is 0.6m high, and the southern one 1m high. Two courtstones flank the northern jamb. That adjoining the jamb is 0.9m high, and the other is 0.7m high. The single orthostat flanking the southern jamb is 0.8m high. Beyond the arc of these five stones excavation revealed a number of fallen or broken courtstones that were generally smaller and, apparently, less securely bedded. One of these, still exposed on the S side of the court, is 0.3m high. Within the court, c. 1.2m inside the entrance passage, was a low set stone that the excavators considered to be a ritual feature. The excavation also revealed a shallow pit within the court and two small occurrences of charcoal. Before the excavation only a single orthostat of the gallery, apart from the entrance jambs, was visible. This, the segmenting jamb on the N side of the gallery, is 0.75m high. On excavation the socket of its southern counterpart, the line of the N side of the front chamber and the socket of the backstone were uncovered. An overall gallery length of c. 5m and a width of c. 3m were thus indicated. The N side of the front chamber was delineated by a built edge of cairn stones that the excavators believed abutted the missing sidestone(s). This chamber was c. 2m long and was separated from the rear chamber by transversely set segmenting jambs. The position of the socket for the backstone indicated that the rear chamber would have been c. 2.3m long. No packing-stones were found in this socket, which was c. 1.5m long and 0.4m wide. There was no trace of bone at the site, but a considerable array of stone implements, principally of flint, and some pottery sherds were found. The finds are, in the main, illustrated in the excavation report and again in Herity (1982; 1987). The numbers allotted to the finds in the excavation report are noted in parentheses below. The finds are also listed by Keeling (1988). A number of finds were recovered from the base of the cairn, all to the S of the area of the rear chamber. Five were flint implements: a plano-convex knife, its tip worked to a point (E 50:53); the tip of a plano-convex knife (E 50:52); an end scraper of roughly oval shape (E 50:49); and two leaf-shaped arrowheads (E 50:40 and E 50:44). The last has since been identified as a plano-convex knife (Herity 1987, 199, no. 6). Also found in this area were part of the blade portion of an axe of polished mudstone (E 50:57) and a crystal of clear quartz (E 50:59). From a position 'fairly high' in the cairn and to the S of the front chamber the tip of a plano-convex flint knife (E 50:51) was recovered. A number of flints were found at or just outside the cairn perimeter. A small leaf-shaped arrowhead, with part of its butt missing (E 50:42), and a hollow scraper (E 50:48) came from the original ground surface on the N side of the cairn. Part of a large worked flake (E 50:55) was found close to the kerb also on the N side of the cairn, and a small polygonal flint core (E 50:56) came from under collapsed cairn material to the N of the revetment. A small leaf-shaped arrowhead (E 50:43), its tip missing, the central portion of a javelinhead (E 50:47) and an end scraper of oval outline (E 50:50) were all found amid collapsed cairn material at the S side of the monument. A worked flint (E 50:54) was found beside the southern edge of the kerb, and a leaf-shaped arrowhead (E 50:41) was found on the original ground surface beyond the collapsed cairn material at the S side of the monument. In the court area a leaf-shaped chert arrowhead (E 50:45), its tip missing, and a lozenge-shaped flint arrowhead (E 50:46), its tip also missing, were both found in the blue clay that formed the floor of the court and gallery. The chert arrowhead was found just in front of the northern entrance jamb, and the other lay in front of the second courtstone, beyond the same jamb. A slender rod of stone (E 50:58) was found in the NW corner of the court. The majority of the finds from the gallery area were confined to the front chamber. From all over this chamber, apparently at floor level, the sherds of a large decorated bowl (E 50:21-37) were recovered. One large sherd was found lying at the base of the northern entrance jamb. Similar sherds (E 50:38), possibly of a different decorated bowl, were found in the forward area of the chamber. Three flint implements came from the floor of the chamber: a leaf-shaped arrowhead (E 50: 1), broken at its bulbar end; an intact leaf-shaped arrowhead (E 50:2) from behind the southern entrance jamb; and an end scraper (E 50:4), which appeared to have been subjected to heat, from the centre of the chamber. From the southern edge of the chamber came a flint core (E 50:8). Three beads of schistose stone—a lozenge-shaped one (E 50:5) and two of sub-spheroid shape (E 50:6 and E 50:7)—were found on the floor just to the rear of the centre of the chamber. Herity (1982, 334) refers to the finding of a flint axehead in this chamber, but it is not mentioned in his later work on the finds from court tombs (Herity 1987, 198-9) or in the excavators' report. From the floor of the rear chamber came a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead (E 50:3). This was found near the socket of the southern segmenting jamb. In addition to the finds listed above, numerous pieces of worked flint, a piece of worked quartz and worked chert were recovered from the site. S

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Bavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Bavan

Area

1,565,199 m² (156.52 ha, 386.77 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcar, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Largymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Largymore electoral division: 523 people in 216 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croaghbeg, Crownasillagh, Largymore, Meenboy, Meentakeeraghan, Shalwy, Strabrinna Lower, Strabrinna Upper

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bavan 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.