Cavan

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan, from 1,150 m² to 96,800 m² (9.68 ha, 23.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

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.

• 3 Jun 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DORMER WINDOW AT DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550076

• 22 Apr 2025N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DORMER WINDOW OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550050

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (SUN ROOM)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851649

• 11 Sept 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STORY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851394

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

• DG098-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 26m WSW-ENE, 21.8m NNW-SSE. A subcircular platform c. 1m above the surrounding land enclosed by an earthen perimeter bank up to 1m in height. Outside this is a flat-bottomed fosse up to 4m wide and an external bank. The interior is flat. There are two gaps, one to the SW 1.85m wide and another to the SE 1.65m wide, in the outer bank. A stone with a depression lies on the outer bank on the E side. The site is located in fair pasture sloping gradually to the sea. 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

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

At the centre of the townland of Cavan, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cavan · An Cabhán

Area

490,201 m² (49.02 ha, 121.13 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Dunkineely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

904 people lived in 351 households in the Dunkineely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybodonnell, Rahan Far, Rahan Near

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.