Cavanacaw
Cavanacaw is a townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 34.6 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavanacaw, from 395 m² to 98,684 m² (9.87 ha, 24.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Cavanacaw 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
6 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF 2 NO. AGRICULTURAL SHEDS, WITH 1 NO. COW SHED INCORPORATING A SLATTED FLOOR SECTION AND UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND 1 NO. TO CONSIST OF A MILKING PARLOUR WITH REFRIGERATED MILK STORAGE TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151768
7 Jul 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DORMER STYLE DOMESTIC DWELLING, WITH DETACHED TWO CAR GARAGE/STORE, PACKAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050890
19 Apr 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ROOFSPACE ROOMS, ALSO WITH DETACHED GARAGE/STORE, SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750585
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 Cavanacaw.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavanacaw.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cavanacaw.
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 Cavanacaw, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cavanacaw.
- 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
No address of the register names Cavanacaw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cavanacaw
- Area
- 345,978 m² (34.6 ha, 85.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taughboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- St. Johnstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creaghadoos, Creatland, Ratteen, Swilly
- Placenames
- Cavanacaw 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.