Kilcavan
Townland in the civil parish of Castlebrack, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois; in Irish Cill Chaomháin
Parcel 227803
- Area
- 24,520 m² (2.45 ha, 6.06 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 117 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilcavan
Planning applications on this parcel
13 Jul 2018Conditional
extend and make alterations to existing dressing rooms comprising of new multipurpose fitness rooms, entrance hallway, canopy and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18418
6 Jul 2018N/a
extend and make alterations to existing dressing rooms comprising of new multipurpose fitness rooms, entrance hallway, canopy and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18396
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 224.9 ha
- 556 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 4,430 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcavan, from 3 m² to 785,133 m² (78.51 ha, 194.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcavan 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
1 Sept 2026N/a
construct a dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, and all associated site works, at Kilcavan, Geashill, Co. Laois
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660595
25 Aug 2026N/a
construct a dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660572
21 Aug 2026N/a
construct a dwelling house, septic tank treatment system, and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660568
9 Jul 2026Conditional
construct a two-storey dwelling house domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation area, new site entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660462
7 Jul 2026N/a
construct a two-storey dwelling house domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation area, new site entrance along with all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660450
10 Apr 2026Conditional
construct extension to existing agricultural shed to include covered slatted unit, retention of existing silage pit and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660201
7 Apr 2026N/a
extend existing agricultural shed to include covered slatted unit, retention of existing silage pit and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2660191
18 Dec 2025Conditional
retain house as built previously granted planning permission under planning file no. 00/1292 & 02/811 to include amendments to dwelling house, site layout, boundaries, domestic sheds and all associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560868
23 Oct 2025Conditional
construct a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560698
21 Oct 2025N/a
construct a dwelling house, garage, installation of sewerage treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560685
10 Sept 2024Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING SHEDS AND THE REMAINS OF A FORMER DWELLING HOUSE (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A NEW ENTRANCE, DETACHED GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460525
15 May 2024Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2469
7 May 2024N/a
construct a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2463
20 Dec 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, bored well and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23294
4 Aug 2023Conditional
erect a new single storey dwelling house, connection to a new septic tank & percolation area and the erection of a new domestic garage and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 23230
24 Apr 2023Conditional
construct new single storey dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23129
20 Apr 2023N/a
construct new single storey dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, new entrance, ancillary site services and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 23126
19 Oct 2022Conditional
construct a two storey dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary works and services
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 22652
5 Oct 2021Conditional
construct dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance, and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21685
17 Jul 2019Conditional
retain extension to house incorporating extension to rear on ground floor and dormer extension, retention of sheds and permission to install percolation area
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 19408
13 Jul 2018Conditional
extend and make alterations to existing dressing rooms comprising of new multipurpose fitness rooms, entrance hallway, canopy and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18418
6 Jul 2018N/a
extend and make alterations to existing dressing rooms comprising of new multipurpose fitness rooms, entrance hallway, canopy and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 18396
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 Kilcavan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcavan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcavan.
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
- 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 Kilcavan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcavan · Cill Chaomháin
- Area
- 2,248,866 m² (224.89 ha, 555.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlebrack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Electoral division
- Garrymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garrymore electoral division: 264 people in 72 households; 93% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughans, Ballymacrossan (Co. Offaly), Cappalough, Cappanlug, Clonaghadoo, Coolavoran Coolagh and Derrymullen, Garrymore, Roskeen
- Placenames
- Kilcavan 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.