Cavan

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan, from 27 m² to 520,276 m² (52.03 ha, 128.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cavan 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.

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission for the installation of 4,150m2 (840kWp) ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460066

• 28 Sept 2023Refused

  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

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 23427

• 26 Jun 2023Refused

  Outline Planning Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works at Cavan/Rathroal, Knockbridge, Co Louth.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360179

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22173

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  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*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211414

• 27 Apr 2020Conditional

  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*

  Permission, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 20307

• 2 May 2018Conditional

  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.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18329

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 Cavan.

Recorded monuments

• LH012-001001 Enclosure
  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 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
  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 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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cavan, 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 Cavan.

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

Name

Cavan · An Cabhán

Area

969,616 m² (96.96 ha, 239.6 acres)

Civil parish

Haynestown, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Haggardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybarrack, Dunmahon, Gibstown, Knockattin, Newtownbabe, Newtownfane, Rathroal, Tates and Carrans Park

Placenames

Cavan 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.