Ducavan

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ducavan, from 505 m² to 139,758 m² (13.98 ha, 34.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Ducavan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ducavan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ducavan.

Recorded monuments

• LH003-012001 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 Situated on top of a natural rise. Raised oval area (int. dims. 35m NE-SW, 22.5m NW-SE) enclosed by much degraded bank (Wth c. 3.7m, H 2m externally) with no visible fosse. Probable ancient entrance gap at ESE, represented by a slight depression in the bank. Interior rises on all sides to the centre. There are two hut sites (LH003-012003- and LH003-012004) in the fort. At the centre there is a rectangular hut site (dims. 7.4m WNW-ESE, 6.3m NNE-SSW) defined by a slight bank with entrance at ESE. There is a sub-circular hut (int. dims. 4.3m NE-SW, 3.3m NW-SE) defined by a defaced earthen bank in NE quadrant. Possible souterrain (LH003-012002-) in interior, to S of rectangular hut site.

• LH003-012002 Souterrain
  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 In interior of ringfort (LH003-012001-) an L-shaped depression runs from the hut site to the bank at S. This may be a collapsed souterrain.

• LH003-012003 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 One of two hut sites in ringfort (LH003-012001-). Also see LH003-012004-.

• LH003-012004 Hut site
  Description

  One of two hut sites in ringfort (LH003-012001-). Also see LH003-012003-. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 9 November 2011

• LH003-024 Barrow - unclassified
  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 Situated at the S end of a long ridge running N-S, the site consists of an oval, flat-topped mound of earth and stones (max. dims. 17m N-S, 13.2m E-W, H 1m).

• LH003-025 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Fulacht fia noted here in the Sites and Monuments Record for County Louth (1984). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ducavan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Ducavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Ducavan · Dúchabhán

Area

402,338 m² (40.23 ha, 99.42 acres)

Civil parish

Roche, 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

Ballybinaby, Edenakill, Shortstone East, Shortstone West

Placenames

Ducavan 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.