Bavan

161 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bavan, from 59 m² to 41,815 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 65 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bavan 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660591

• 17 Oct 2025Refused

  Permission for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560657

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of a single storey extension to provide one new classroom together with ancillary accommodation, internal modifications, and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211476

• 24 Sept 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211204

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for development that will consist of one dwellinghouse, waste water treatment system and all associated development works *Further Information received on 23/02/2022*

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211152

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for a domestic garage/shed for the storage of vintage vehicles (cars, motorbikes, lorries and tractors) for personal hobby use and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21967

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new EN Certified septic tank & intermittent soil polishing filter area, new private water well, together with all associated site development works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 16/10/2018**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18458

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  Permission for the provision of two temporary classrooms for pre-school facilities along with all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17114

• 17 Feb 2017N/a

  Permission for the provision of all-weather play areas, associated enclosures and site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17115

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carlingford Mountain SAC 000453
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlingford Mountain 000453

Recorded monuments

• LH005-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 35m E-W, 30m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 3.3m, H 0.6m internally, 1m externally) with possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at E. Slight earth and stone bank divides off SE quadrant of interior.

• LH005-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 28m E-W, 30m N-S) enclosed by much-degraded earth and stone bank (Wth 4m, H 0.4m internally, 1.4m externally) with modern drystone masonry facing on nearly the whole circumference.

• LH005-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (int. diam. c. 39m) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 3m, H 0.5m internally, 1m externally). The bank is greatly modified by modern field walls.

• LH005-013 Hut site
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Remains of hut site situated in poor grazing land at the edge of a ravine. The site is circular in plan (int. diam. 4.8m) with a low grass-covered stone wall (Wth 1.7m, ext. H 0.2m, int. H 0.5m) enclosing a slightly sloping interior. A gap (Wth 1.3m) at the SE may represent the original entrance. Referred to by Stubbs (CLAJ 1908, 37) as a 'mount' and known locally as a 'fort' (OS Memorandum 6364 A).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bavan.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Bavan, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bavan.

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.

No address of the register names Bavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Bavan · An Bábhún

Area

2,037,492 m² (203.75 ha, 503.48 acres)

Civil parish

Carlingford, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Drummullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,505 people lived in 527 households in the Drummullagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaghy, Ballinteskin, Corrakit, Knocknagoran, Ravensdale Park, Tullaghomeath

Placenames

Bavan 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.