# Cavanacor, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cabhán Corr. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 339,189 m² (33.92 ha, 83.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,163 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Clonleigh North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/16213 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50593 - Centre: latitude 54.848388, longitude -7.515656 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavanacor, from 1,303 m² to 53,945 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1330363: 53,945 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330363.md - Parcel 1338935: 47,709 m² (4.77 ha, 11.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338935.md - Parcel 1395239: 20,537 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395239.md - Parcel 1371958: 1,790 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371958.md - Parcel 4919843: 1,379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4919843.md - Parcel 1340015: 1,303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340015.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cavanacor 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) 1 application, newest first. - 30 Sept 2019, Donegal County Council 1951471: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951471/0 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 Cavanacor. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavanacor. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Cavanacor House, country house, 1600–1860, Regional interest, registry number 40834001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40834001. Detached five-bay two-storey L-plan country house, built c.1770 and possibly containing earlier fabric of c.1610, having single-bay single-storey centre porch to centre of front elevation (southeast), added c.1850 and reusing doorcase of c.1820, and having two-storey return and extensions to rear. Modern single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to southwest side elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with eaves course, and with pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends, having moulded ashlar coping and terracotta pots. Mono-pitched felt roof to porch with timber fascia to eaves. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course; smooth rendered walls to rear extension and to porch (ruled-and-lined). Square-headed window openings to front elevation having painted stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows (apparently installed in 1823). Square-headed window openings to side elevations of porch having painted stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door, doorcase comprising Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature with dentillated cornice and with floral motifs to frieze, and with square-headed overlight with spider’s web fanlight. Doorway approached by flight of cut stone steps. Former segmental-headed carriage-arch to southwest side of return, now infilled with modern glazed door and windows. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds. Section of hooped wrought-iron railings to south side of house. Complex of outbuildings arranged around yard to north of house. Detached single-bay two-storey outbuilding to west, having pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and chimneystack to west gable. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, and square-headed doorway with battened timber door. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to northwest, now converted for use as art gallery, having three-bay two-storey section to north and two-storey section to south with loop-hole openings at first floor level, and with single-bay single-storey addition to north having mono-pitched roof. Pitched natural slate roof to larger building, with projecting eaves course, central brick chimneystack, and limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor level (block to north) and four-over-eight pane at first floor level; square-headed window opening at ground floor level to block to south having fixed-pane multiple-pane timber window with loop-hole openings with brick reveals over at first floor level. Square-headed doorways to block to north and to lean-to extension, having battened timber doors. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north having pitched and hipped slate roofs, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, limewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed timber multiple-pane and replacement windows, square-headed doorways with battened timber doors, and square-headed carriage-arch with battened timber double-leaf door. Detached single-storey outbuilding to west of house having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with cast-iron lattice window and battened timber doors. Courtyard to site having rubble stone boundary walls. Gateway to courtyard having rubble stone gate square-plan piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gates. Remains of walled garden to southwest of house, having three surviving sides with rubble stone walls. Main gateway to east of house comprising pair of square-plan rubble stone piers with wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Gateway flanked by sections of rubble stone walling with terminating square-plan rubble stone piers. Redundant gateway to west of house comprising pier of cast-iron gate posts, square-plan rubble stone piers and hooped wrought-iron double-leaf gate. Derelict three-bay two-storey gate lodge with single-storey extension to rear located south of main gateway, having pitched artificial slate roof with overhanging eaves and central red brick chimneystack with stepped coping, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed replacement timber casement windows with stone sills, and central square-headed timber panelled door with overlight. ## 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 Cavanacor, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1927, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1927.zip (ZIP). - 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/cavanacor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cavanacor 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) - Ballindrait: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballindrait.md - Ballynabreen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynabreen.md - Moneen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneen.md - Murlough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/murlough-52145.md - Tyleford: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tyleford.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/cavanacor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cavanacor