Cavangarden

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavangarden, from 213 m² to 88,327 m² (8.83 ha, 21.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Cavangarden 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.

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660394

• 29 Jan 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF AN EXISTING DOMESTIC STORE TO USE AS AN ORGANIC FARM PRODUCE PACKAGING AREA AND CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL DOMESTIC STORAGE AT 1ST FLOOR LEVEL OF THE SAME BUILDING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560103

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF GARAGE DOOR WITH PATIO DOOR, ADDITIONAL SIDE WINDOW AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462108

• 28 Aug 2024Refused

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO INCLUDE REPLACEMENT OF GARAGE DOOR WITH PATIO DOOR, ADDITIONAL SIDE WINDOW AND INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461305

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING DISPOSAL PAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460571

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLURRY STORAGE TANK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251509

• 12 Oct 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED SHED IN LIEU OF A STRAW AND MACHINERY STORAGE SHED PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 12/20024

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051487

• 9 Jul 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING CONSISTING OF SLATTED HOUSE TO ACCOMMODATE CATTLE ALONG WITH A CONCRETE APRON

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050907

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 Cavangarden.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-011 Souterrain
  Description

  A rock-cut souterrain which seems to have exploited a natural fissure in a rock outcrop. It is' 8.18m long SSW-NNE and widens from .73m at the S end to .84m at the N. It is 1.35m high at its N, increasing to 1.8m near the middle, then sloping to 1m towards the S entrance. It is unroofed for c. 5m, but the remainder is roofed with flagstones. There are some packing stones at the N end adjoining the roof. The only internal feature is a niche .8m wide, .75m high, 1m deep on the floor near the N end. It is situated in an area of rock outcrop surrounded by pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Cashelard Post Office, post office, house, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former post office, built c. 1920, having central projecting single-bay single-storey gable-fronted enclosed entrance porch to the main elevation (south) and with rendered extension to the rear (north). Now out of use and derelict. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with central metal chimney vent and with metal rainwater goods; pitched corrugated-metal roof to porch with decorative timber bargeboards to front face (south). Corrugated-metal clad walls; rendered walls to rear extension. Metal letter slot to the west end of the main elevation. Square-headed window openings with timber surrounds and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level, paired timber casement windows to the east end of the front elevation at ground floor level, and paired one-over-one pane timber sash windows to the west end of the front elevation at ground floor level; metal security bars to ground floor openings. Square-headed door opening to west face of porch having battened timber door. Set slightly back from road in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballyshannon. Single-storey outbuildings to the rear (north) including single-bay outside toilet with corrugated-metal walls and roof.

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 Cavangarden, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Cavangarden, Ballyshannon5 sales

Name

Cavangarden · Cabhán an Gharraí

Area

1,252,467 m² (125.25 ha, 309.49 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cavangarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 153 households in the Cavangarden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alla, Ardgillew, Ardpattan, Behy, Cashel, Cashelard, Laheen, Lurgan, Tullyhorky

Placenames

Cavangarden 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.