Cavan Lower
Cavan Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 175.9 ha
- 435 acres
- Land parcels
- 99
- registered freehold, median 6,589 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan Lower, from 34 m² to 179,231 m² (17.92 ha, 44.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cavan Lower 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
17 Jun 2025N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A PURPOSE-BUILT SINGLE STOREY 345.4M2 COMMUNITY DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED HARD LANDSCAPING WORKS AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561020
26 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING TEAGASC BALLYBOFEY OFFICE PREMISES CONTAINING NEW ENTRANCE, RECEPTION AREA AND MEETING SPACE, (2) BUILDING SIGNAGE AND (3) RECONFIGURATION OF CAR PARKING AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560443
25 Sept 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461516
8 Feb 2022Conditional
(1) EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE (2) REVISED POSITION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO DWELLING HOUSE (3) EXISTING DOMESTIC SHEDS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250187
17 Dec 2021N/a
(1) EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE (2) REVISED POSITION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO DWELLING HOUSE (3) DOMESTIC SHEDS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152546
18 Nov 2021N/a
(1) EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE (2) REVISED POSITION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO DWELLING HOUSE (3) DOMESTIC SHEDS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152303
18 Aug 2021N/a
(1) EXTENSION TO SIDE & REAR OF DWELLING, (2) REVISED POSITION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND (3) DOMESTIC SHEDS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151659
29 Jul 2021N/a
(1) EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE (2) REVISED POSITION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) DOMESTIC SHEDS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151519
13 Mar 2020Conditional
DETACHED STRUCTURE FOR THE STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCANNING EQUIPMENT, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050324
6 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950158
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: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
- DG078-008 Burial ground
Description
No visible features survive of the 'site of Kilbobbin Burial Ground' shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was located on a small, circular hill c. 20m-30m in diameter in good land with extensive views S towards the Finn Valley. 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
- DG078-019 Castle - unclassified
Description
Castle (site of): In 1846, Fagan recorded the tradition that this castle was built by an Earl Baldwin of Co. Galway and subsequently came into the possession of Squire Hamilton, who died there in 1710. There was then no trace of this castle (Bk. 13, 15-16) and no visible remains survive today. 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 Lower.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cavan Lower, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cavan Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Cavan Lower, Killygordon5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Cavan Lower
- Area
- 1,758,674 m² (175.87 ha, 434.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Killygordon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carn, Carricknamanna, Carrickshandrum, Cavan Upper, Cooladawson, Corcam
- Placenames
- Cavan Lower 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.