Cavancreevy
Cavancreevy is a townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Cabhán na Craoibhe.
- Area
- 89.3 ha
- 221 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 7,242 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavancreevy, from 376 m² to 161,415 m² (16.14 ha, 39.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Cavancreevy 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
14 Jan 2021Conditional
permission for a dormer dwelling, new domestic entrance, waste water treatment system, domestic garage and all associated siteworks and services
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2110
23 Sept 2020Conditional
Retention of an extension to the rear of the dwelling consisting of a flat roofed extension that incorporates a balcony with double door access from the first floor level, all internal layout revisions, the existing dwelling house was constructed under Planning Reference 04-336 and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20388
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 Cavancreevy.
Recorded monuments
- MO010-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
This location is marked only on a revision of the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map dated 1858 where it is described as ‘Site of fort’. No archaeological feature is visible on aerial images (OSAP)in an area where the field banks have altered radically between the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 26 January 2018
- MO010-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a drumlin. This location is marked only on a revision of the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map dated 1858 where it is described as ‘Site of fort’. There are slight traces of a D-shaped rise (H c. 1m) on the E side of a N-S field bank and hedge, but no feature is visible on the W side. A new house had been built just to the E by 2000 (OSAP). The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 26 January 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cavancreevy.
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 Cavancreevy, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cavancreevy.
- 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 Cavancreevy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cavancreevy · Cabhán na Craoibhe
- Area
- 893,324 m² (89.33 ha, 220.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Castleshane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,013 people lived in 332 households in the Castleshane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumneill, Groves Lower, Groves Upper, Killymonaghan
- Placenames
- Cavancreevy 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.