Cavananore
Cavananore is a townland in the civil parish of Creggan, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Cabhán an Óir.
- Area
- 88.3 ha
- 218 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 20,592 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavananore, from 6 m² to 240,571 m² (24.06 ha, 59.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Cavananore 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
4 May 2026N/a
Permission for a two-storey dwelling house with attached single storey domestic garage, single storey horse stable block incorporating 3 stables, tack room, forage store, horse box store and isolation box, provision of new vehicular entrance and entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660255
25 Feb 2026N/a
Permission for a new single storey outbuilding for use as a home office, domestic store and gym with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660096
24 Nov 2025Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 21/1007 - Permission for the demolition of existing dilapidated dwelling and outbuilding, construction of a new single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, extension of existing access lane with use of existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 25169
1 May 2024Conditional
Retention of 1. Minor elevational revisions to 4 bay double slatted livestock shed previously approved under planning reference no. 21/335 and 2. construction of additional adjoining roofed/covered livestock stock handling yard together with all ancillary site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460242
13 Jul 2023Conditional
Permission for the change of house type from that previously granted permission under ref. no. 21/905 and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23331
23 Jun 2023Conditional
Extension of Duration of 17947-Permission for development will consist of a single storey dormer dwelling detached garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works.
Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 23309
17 May 2023Conditional
Permission for a single storey garage with home office and all associated site works in substitution for detached domestic garage as previously approved under planning reference 17/832
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360107
20 Apr 2023N/a
Permission for a single storey garage with home office and all associated site works in substitution for detached domestic garage as previously approved under planning reference 17/832.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360073
8 Mar 2023Refused
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 17/947 - Permission for development will consist of a single storey dormer dwelling detached garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works
Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 23117
24 Jan 2023Refused
Retention permission for 1. minor elevational revisions to 4 bay double slatted livestock shed approved under planning ref. no. 21/335 and 2. construction of additional adjoining 5 bay roofed livestock/blood stock handling yard together with all ancillary site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2333
11 Aug 2021Conditional
Permission for the demolition of existing dilapidated dwelling and outbuilding, construction of a new single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, extension of existing access lane with use of existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211007
29 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of the demolition of existing obsolete farm sheds and replacement with a proposed single storey 4 bay double slatted livestock shed with underground slurry storage tank, associated cattle crush and handling yard, a single storey forage and agricultural machinery storage shed together with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 21335
26 Apr 2018Conditional
The development will consist of the following: 1. Retention and completion of boundary walls to dwelling house site and 2. Permission for relocation of existing entrance to site and construction of new entrance with wing walls and gates and all associated site development works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18314
20 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission for development will consist of a single storey dormer dwelling detached garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17947
7 Nov 2017Conditional
Permission for development will consist of a two storey dwelling, detached garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17832
12 Jul 2017N/a
Permission for development to consist of a single storey dwelling, detached garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17527
16 Jun 2017N/a
Permission for development that will consist of a Two Storey dwelling, detached garage & wastewater treatment system with all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17451
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 Cavananore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavananore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cavananore.
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 Cavananore, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cavananore.
- 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 Cavananore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Cavananore · Cabhán an Óir
- Area
- 882,529 m² (88.25 ha, 218.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creggan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Creggan Upper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 875 people lived in 298 households in the Creggan Upper electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghvacky, Carrickastuck, Shortstone West, Tawnamore
- Placenames
- Cavananore 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.