# Cavanacaw, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 345,978 m² (34.6 ha, 85.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: St. Johnstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16511 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50592 - Centre: latitude 54.893777, longitude -7.486126 (WGS 84) ## 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); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1380500: 98,684 m² (9.87 ha, 24.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380500.md - Parcel 1345998: 73,501 m² (7.35 ha, 18.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345998.md - Parcel 1331531: 55,552 m² (5.56 ha, 13.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331531.md - Parcel 2744371: 7,700 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744371.md - Parcel 4613050: 4,562 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4613050.md - Parcel 1407703: 3,748 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407703.md - Parcel 1326254: 3,661 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326254.md - Parcel 1324077: 3,450 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324077.md - Parcel 1402668: 2,917 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402668.md - Parcel 1335549: 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335549.md - Parcel 6056536: 2,537 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6056536.md - Parcel 5372838: 2,531 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5372838.md - Parcel 3659263: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659263.md - Parcel 4852275: 2,342 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4852275.md - Parcel 1352826: 2,322 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352826.md - Parcel 1315218: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315218.md - Parcel 1406697: 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406697.md - Parcel 1372014: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372014.md - Parcel 4785556: 2,256 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785556.md - Parcel 4785567: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785567.md - Parcel 1410651: 2,106 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410651.md - Parcel 1333715: 2,092 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333715.md - Parcel 1301506: 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301506.md - Parcel 1357744: 1,843 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357744.md - Parcel 1392077: 1,782 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392077.md - Parcel 4613043: 1,586 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4613043.md - Parcel 2744367: 1,428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744367.md - Parcel 1386882: 1,399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386882.md - Parcel 1424063: 1,102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424063.md - Parcel 1393872: 584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393872.md - Parcel 1336401: 578 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336401.md - Parcel 1327927: 449 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327927.md - Parcel 4613047: 395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4613047.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 6 Sept 2021, Donegal County Council 2151768: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151768/0 - 7 Jul 2020, Donegal County Council 2050890: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050890/0 - 19 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750585: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750585/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cavanacaw. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavanacaw. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cavanacaw. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacaw.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacaw.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacaw.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Creaghadoos: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creaghadoos.md - Creatland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creatland.md - Ratteen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ratteen.md - Swilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/swilly.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacaw - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cavanacaw