# Cavan, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Haynestown, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish An Cabhán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 969,616 m² (96.96 ha, 239.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Haynestown, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/haynestown.md - Barony: Dundalk Upper - Electoral division: Haggardstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 9,301 people lived in 3,293 households in the Haggardstown electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 54% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33826 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140158 - Centre: latitude 53.967778, longitude -6.445961 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan, from 27 m² to 520,276 m² (52.03 ha, 128.56 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1134240: 520,276 m² (52.03 ha, 128.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134240.md - Parcel 1120042: 200,622 m² (20.06 ha, 49.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120042.md - Parcel 1132217: 111,955 m² (11.2 ha, 27.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132217.md - Parcel 1120069: 45,525 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120069.md - Parcel 1136407: 43,571 m² (4.36 ha, 10.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136407.md - Parcel 5679876: 11,631 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5679876.md - Parcel 5586214: 10,075 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5586214.md - Parcel 1098356: 3,918 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1098356.md - Parcel 4997519: 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4997519.md - Parcel 6106084: 3,077 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6106084.md - Parcel 1123385: 2,254 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123385.md - Parcel 1126315: 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126315.md - Parcel 1129184: 1,661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129184.md - Parcel 1132571: 1,607 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132571.md - Parcel 4990530: 1,582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4990530.md - Parcel 1135839: 1,489 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135839.md - Parcel 5009561: 1,266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5009561.md - Parcel 2739866: 1,248 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2739866.md - Parcel 1121287: 754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121287.md - Parcel 5333312: 250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5333312.md - Parcel 1099011: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099011.md - Parcel 1100704: 93 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1100704.md - Parcel 1101973: 27 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1101973.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cavan 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 7 Feb 2024, Louth County Council 2460066: Conditional. Permission. Permission for the installation of 4,150m2 (840kWp) ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and all associated ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460066/0 - 28 Sept 2023, Louth County Council 23427: Refused. Permission, 2 homes. Permission for the construction of a new detached two storey house, domestic garage, new proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, provision of new vehicular entrance, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/23427/0 - 26 Jun 2023, Louth County Council 2360179: Refused. Outline permission, 1 home. Outline Planning Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works at Cavan/Rathroal, Knockbridge, Co Louth.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360179/0 - 9 Mar 2022, Louth County Council 22173: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the demolition of an existing attached garage and a single storey extension to the rear of the property. Permission for a single storey extension to the side and rear of the property, a single storey extension to the front of the property and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22173/0 - 25 Nov 2021, Louth County Council 211414: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. permission for change of house type from previously granted permission under planning ref. no. 13/22 and 18/329, and all associated site development works including amendments to garage*Significant Further Information received on 04/05/2022*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/211414/0 - 27 Apr 2020, Louth County Council 20307: Conditional. Permission, 3 homes. Permission for new dwelling house with attached indoor swimming pool, Home gym, and domestic garage, external courtyard and garden walling, provision of waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works *Significant Further Information submitted 14/10/2020 which provides for inter alia revised plans/amended design proposal which comprises of removal of swimming pool*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20307/0 - 2 May 2018, Louth County Council 18329: Conditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. Extension of Duration: Parent Ref: 13/22 - Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (ref no of outline permission 09/576) for development that will consist of dwelling, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system with percolation area & associated site development works off existing entrance. Significant further information was received 23rd May 2013.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18329/0 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 Cavan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH012-001001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH012-001001-. 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 enclosure (max. dims. c. 32m N-S, c. 28m E-W) overlapping the NE corner of a rectilinear enclosure (LH012-001002-) showing on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDG 94). - LH012-001002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH012-001002-. 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 Cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDG 94) suggests a sub-rectilinear enclosure (max. dims. c. 60m N-S, c. 30m E-W) associated with cropmark of a circular enclosure (LH012-001001-). - LH012-119: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH012-119----. Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’. It is also faintly visible as a cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature on OSI images (1995). See the attached view from OSI images (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 19 November 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cavan. ## 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 Cavan, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cavan. - 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/louth/cavan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/cavan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/cavan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybarrack: https://everytownland.com/louth/ballybarrack.md - Dunmahon: https://everytownland.com/louth/dunmahon.md - Gibstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/gibstown.md - Knockattin: https://everytownland.com/louth/knockattin.md - Newtownbabe: https://everytownland.com/louth/newtownbabe.md - Newtownfane: https://everytownland.com/louth/newtownfane.md - Rathroal: https://everytownland.com/louth/rathroal.md - Tates and Carrans Park: https://everytownland.com/louth/tates-and-carrans-park.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/louth/cavan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/cavan