Cavan Upper
Cavan Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 235.7 ha
- 582 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 3,298 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan Upper, from 240 m² to 299,444 m² (29.94 ha, 73.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Upper 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
3 Apr 2026Conditional
(A) RETENTION OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND DETACHED STORAGE SHED, AND (B) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660562
11 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2351541
30 Aug 2023Conditional
EXISTING STORAGE CONTAINER AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF ADDITIONAL STORAGE SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RIFLE RANGE GALLERY AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351294
18 Dec 2019Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR. ERECTION OF MILKING PARLOUR, DRAFTING AREA, FEED SILO AND ADDITIONAL YARD INCLUDING RELOCATED ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951964
2 Dec 2019N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR & CONSTRUCTION OF MILKING PARLOUR, DRAFTING AREA, FEED SILO AND ADDITIONAL YARD INCLUDING RELOCATION OF ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951860
14 Oct 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FOR DWELLING HOUSE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51107
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951544
17 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951107
31 May 2018Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS WITHIN FARM YARD (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED MEASURING 5,856 SQ. METRES, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SILAGE PIT AND (4) RELOCATION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT EXISTING FARM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850845
23 May 2018N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PARTIALLY SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED MEASURING 5,856 SQ. METRES, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SILAGE PIT AND (3) RELOCATION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT EXISTING FARM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850809
2 Nov 2017Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED MEASURING 1,960 SQ. METRES (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A 900 SQ. METRE EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT EXISTING FARM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751670
23 Oct 2017N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED MEASURING 1,960 SQ. METRES (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A 900 SQ. METRE EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT EXISTING FARM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751597
16 Mar 2017Conditional
CONTINUATION OF USE, OF EXISTING TARGET CLUB/RANGE, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSES OF FIREARMS USE, AND ALL OTHER APPROVED ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCES 13/51444
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750386
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cavan Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavan Upper.
Architectural heritage
- Cavan House, outbuilding, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached eleven-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1869, having blocked integral carriage-arch to the centre of the main elevation (north-west). Probably originally associated with two-storey house adjacent to the south-west. Possibly formerly associated with flax and\or corn mills to the south-east (Ordnance Survey first and third edition six-inch maps of 1836 and c. 1902). Hipped natural slate roof having cut stone eaves course, and with some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Randomly coursed rubble stone walls with flush bush-hammered limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having decorative red and yellow block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and timber louvered vents. Square-headed door openings at ground floor level and loading bays at first storey level having decorative red and yellow block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and some remaining battened timber doors. Some openings now blocked. Segmental-headed carriage-arch, now infilled with modern blockwork, having decorative red and yellow block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, and with cut stone keystone over incised ‘1869’ and ‘R.W.’. Remnant machinery evident in adjoining yard, two sandstone mill stones form entrance to neighbouring property. Located to the north-east of Stranorlar, and adjacent to the north-west of two-storey house and associated complex of outbuildings.
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
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cavan Upper.
- 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 Upper, Killygordon6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Cavan Upper
- Area
- 2,357,211 m² (235.72 ha, 582.48 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
- Bohanboy, Carricknamanna, Cavan Lower, Cooladawson, Corradooey, Craigdoo, Gortletteragh, Labbadoo
- Placenames
- Cavan Upper 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.