Cave

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cave, from 204 m² to 136,611 m² (13.66 ha, 33.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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.

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  of (1) domestic private double garage and (2) planning retention of turf/storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561295

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

• GA073-056 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In gently rolling farmland. A very poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) defined by a bank and external fosse best preserved at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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. Galway.

Name

Cave · An Chéibh

Area

2,388,253 m² (238.83 ha, 590.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Ballymacward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacward electoral division: 316 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Ballymacward, Ballyvoneen, Carrownakelly, Carrownea, Corskeagh (Trench), Garrymore, Kinreask, Mountventure, Moyarwood

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.