Cave

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cave, from 103 m² to 178,196 m² (17.82 ha, 44.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cave 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 Cave 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 Cave.

Recorded monuments

• MA093-097001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located at the N end of a low, roughly N–S ridge, utilising the natural fall of ground to N and W. Good views over rolling pasture, with expanses of bog to E–SE. Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Slightly raised oval area (48.5m N–S; 56.5m E–W) defined SSW–NNE by a levelled bank surviving as a low scarp (Wth slope 2m at W, 4.5m at N; H 0.7m at W, 1.6m at N); it is best preserved on the NW arc where it is cut into the natural slope. Elsewhere the scarp can be traced only as a slight rise/undulation. A short section (L 8m) of the scarp at N has been dug away. The level, grassy interior is crossed roughly centrally, on an ENE–WSW axis, by remnants of a field bank, now topped with a post and wire fence. A field wall on a NW–SE axis overlies the E edge of the rath. According to local tradition, there is a souterrain (MA093-097002-) in the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

• MA093-097002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a ringfort (MA093-097001-). There is no visible trace of a souterrain which according to local tradition is located in the rath. It may be source of the townland name, ‘Cave’. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_827 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cave with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cave · An Chéibh

Area

620,109 m² (62.01 ha, 153.23 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Loughanboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughanboy electoral division: 323 people in 131 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Barheen, Carrowreagh, Cartron, Coolnaha South, Kilmannin, Togher

Placenames

Cave 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.