Cavan

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan, from 173 m² to 193,450 m² (19.35 ha, 47.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Cavan 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.

• 30 Apr 2026Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660773

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO FRONT OF EXISTING CATTLE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560396

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION AND FIRST FLOOR ATTIC CONVERSION AT EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560314

• 29 Aug 2024Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, POLYTUNNEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461317

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051867

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 Cavan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1958 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cavan · An Cabhán

Area

795,532 m² (79.55 ha, 196.58 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Braade, Dromore, Glebe, Glencash, Hollands, Mulnagung, Rossgeir

Placenames

Cavan 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.