Abbeyland

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeyland, from 12 m² to 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  to apply for change of use from residential to office use and all associated works at Farnham Street, Cavan, Co. Cavan H12 AH72. The development consists of alterations to internal room layouts and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560358

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the replacement of 1nr. ATM to existing front façade (east elevation) along with minor internal alterations and all associated site works. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560164

• 26 Mar 2025Conditional

  for alterations to the previously approved plans & elevations of Planning Ref: 24/60107 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560135

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  for change of use from existing retail unit for use as medical consultancy rooms and an office and all associated works and services

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460635

• 12 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of existing 2 storey building & erection of new 2 storey building comprising 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments with own door access, access via existing entrance, connection to existing public services, provide new car parking & boundary treatments & all associated works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460566

• 6 Nov 2024N/a

  for the demolition of existing 2 storey building & erection of new 2 storey building comprising 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments with own door access, access via existing entrance, connection to existing public services,provide new car parking & boundary treatments & all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460556

• 27 Mar 2024Conditional

  for change of use and alterations to ground floor from commercial use to healthcare use to be integrated into a single facility with the adjacent Healthcare Facility in 95/96 Main Street as per granted planning 23/60010 and all ancillary works & all associated signages. The proposed works are located within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460116

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  for change of use and subdivision of existing ground floor public house to 2 no retail units, including alterations to elevations signage, connection to existing services and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460107

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  for alterations and extension of car park (permitted under planning ref. no 23/60010) to rear of premises at no. 95-96 to include 9no. additional car parking spaces to the rear of no. 92 Main Street and all ancillary works. The proposed works are located within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360329

• 28 Aug 2023Refused

  to consist of the proposed alterations to front façade (east elevation), comprising of: 1. Installation of 1 no. new ATM, along with alterations to existing window ope. 2. Removal of section of existing boundary railing and stonework plinth. 3. Minor internal alterations, together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360153

• 10 Aug 2023N/a

  for the proposed alterations to front façade (east elevation), comprising of: 1. Installation of 1 no. new ATM, along with alterations to existing window ope. 2. Removal of section of existing boundary railing and stonework plinth. 3. Minor internal alterations, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360137

• 26 Apr 2023Conditional

  development consisting of (1). Change of use and alterations to part ground floor and first/second floor to healthcare use, (2). provision of a single storey extension and pedestrian access corridor from main street Cavan to rear car park, (3). Alterations to existing plans & elevations, (4). Demolition of dilapidated outbuildings and walls to rear of premises, (5). provision of new pedestrian access to rear car park, (6). Alterations and extension of existing car park to rear of premises at no. 95,96,97 accessed from existing vehicular entrances at Farnham Street & Thomas Ashe Street and all ancillary works. The proposed works are located within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360010

• 21 Apr 2023N/a

  development consisting of (1). Change of use and alterations to part ground floor and first/second floor to healthcare use, (2). provision of a single storey extension and pedestrian access corridor from main street Cavan to rear car park, (3). Alterations to existing plans & elevations, (4). Demolition of dilapidated outbuildings and walls to rear of premises, (5). provision of new pedestrian access to rear car park, (6). Alterations and extension of existing car park to rear of premises at no. 95,96,97 accessed from existing vehicular entrances at Farnham Street & Thomas Ashe Street and all ancillary works. The proposed works are located within the curtilage of a protected structure.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360006

• 12 Apr 2023N/a

  The development will consist of (1). Change of use and alterations to part ground floor and first/second floor to healthcare use, (2). provision of a single storey extension and pedestrian access corridor from Main Street Cavan to rear car park, (3). Alterations to existing plans & elevations, (4). Demolition of dilapidated outbuildings to rear of premises, (5). provision of new pedestrian access to rear car park, (6). Alterations and extension of existing car park to rear of premises at no. 95, 96, 97 accessed from existing vehicular entrances at Farnham Street & Thomas Ashe Steet and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360001

• 31 Mar 2023Refused

  erect 24m high monopole structure together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23152

• 10 Oct 2022Refused

  to erect a 24m high tower together with antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22412

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  to retain alterations and additional floor area to existing two storey extension

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21622

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  for change of use from existing commercial unit to coffee shop including signage, connection to all existing services and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21623

• 16 Jun 2021N/a

  for change of use from existing commercial unit to take-away food outlet including ventilation ductwork, signage, connection to all existing services and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21374

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  retain the change of use from school to Adult Education Facility at the corner of Ashe Street and Farnham Street, together with all associated changes to signage and connections to all existing services

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 20263

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  for the conversion of existing storage sheds to 2 No. Apartments (1 x 1 Bed & 1 x 2 Bed) together with all associated site works and connection to existing services on site

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19340

• 20 Mar 2019Conditional

  to retain change of use from commercial unit to fully serviced apartment, associated alterations to elevations, connection to public mains & all ancillary works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 19105

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  for a replacement shopfront, together with associated signage and siteworks

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17142

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 Abbeyland.

Recorded monuments

• CV020-055 Historic town
  Description

  Situated on the E bank of the S-N Cavan River, overlooked by higher hills around it. Its name, Cabhan in Gaelic, means a hollow place. Uniquely among Irish towns it was founded by the ruling Gaelic family of Ó Raghallaigh, or O’Reilly c. 1300 when a castle and Franciscan friary were built in close proximity. The annals (AFM, ALC) refer to the burning of the town in 1427, 1429 and 1468 by raiders from the Pale. The Irish towns of Cavan, Longford and Granard were considered such a commercial threat to the Pale towns that trade with them was forbidden by the Irish Parliament in 1479-80. The McBrady family, based in the town during the sixteenth century, also had branches in Navan and Drogheda. The anglicisation of the O’Reilly lordship as the sixteenth century advanced facilitated the development of the town, and in 1598 a government force was established there. The garrison was re-enforced in 1601, although it was abandoned after the end of the war in 1603 (Davies 1948b 84, 101). Cavan was incorporated as the county town in 1610 to serve as the administrative centre of the Plantation. It retained a large Irish contingent in its government up to 1641 when it fell to the supporters of the rising and Sir Phelim O’Neill. In 1690 the town was defended by Jacobites against an assault by Wolseley, and the town was pillaged and burned. A plan of the town made by Netherclift c. 1593 shows the Main Street with Bridge Street extending across the river as the only thoroughfares. Although it might never have been defended by walls (CV020-055001-) amongst its medieval features are the Friary (CV020-055002-), the site of the market cross (CV020-055003-), and the site of O’Reilly’s Castle (CV020-055004-). Among later medieval features are the sites of two other castles (CV020-055005-; CV020-055006-), a bridge (CV020-055008-) and a watermill (CV020-055011-). One, if not two, schools (CV020-055007-; CV020-055012-) and two inns (CV020-055013-; CV020-055014-) were established within the town in the early seventeenth century and the charter of incorporation of 1610 empowered the governing Corporation to build a ‘common hall or toltshill’ (CV020-055010-), but it is not known if it was ever built. (Bradley and Dunne 1989, 34-48) See the attached plan by Netherclift c. 1593 North is at the left Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 11 April 2018

• CV020-055002 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Franciscan friary founded between 1300 and 1330 by Gilla-Isu Roe O'Reilly. Burnt in 1405, again in 1451 through the carelessness of an inebriated friar, by the English in 1468, and finally by an enraged woman of the O'Reilly family in 1576. Depicted on Netherclift's plan of Cavan town (c. 1593). It was demolished in 1815 and all that now remains is a three-storey square tower (ext. dims. 4.3m x 4.3m; H c. 16.7m) with 18th-century moulded opes in E and W walls and similar openings in all four walls at third-floor level. (O'Connell 1937, 335; Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 245) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV020-055007 School
  Description

  In the early 17th century the Plantation commissioners decreed that Tullymongan Friary (CV020-055002-) be converted into a parish church and school. The nearby castle (CV020-055004-) was also to be used as a source of stone for these new buildings. The first schoolmaster was apparently appointed c. 1623 (Davies 1948, 101). It is possible that this is the same school as that mentioned in the Calendar Patent Rolls James I for 1622 (CV020-055----). No visible remains at ground level. (Bradley and Dunne 1989, 42) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Cavan Number One National School, school, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey school of formal classical design with single-bay single-storey end wings, built c.1800. Extended to the rear c.1950 and 2006. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks marking centre bay, parapets to wings with stone coping, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls with sandstone plinth course, having segmental-arched recesses around ground level windows, entrance door and wing windows. Six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, six-over-three to first floor and tripartite timber Wyatt windows to wings with central six-over-six sliding sashes and two-over-two side-lights. Shallow segmental cobweb timber fanlight over moulded entablature on scrolled brackets and pilasters with recent double-leaf door. Sandstone step to entrance with recent limestone threshold step. Set back from road behind recent steel railing on historic rubble-stone plinth wall.

• Abbey Graveyard, abbey, 1430–1470 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding enclosure walls of former Franciscan abbey, commenced c.1450. Retaining door opening c.1740 and rear elevations of two houses c.1850 and freestanding remains of church tower adjacent to western wall. Now enclosing public park. Coursed rubble limestone walls with rendered coping. Carved limestone door opening of c.1740 incorporated into west boundary wall adjacent to tower with ashlar archivolt, keystone and springing stones, now blocked up. Burial ground located within walls with some surviving gravemarkers, many moved from their original position and some incorporated into boundary wall. Memorial created from gravemarkers located in centre of burial ground. Square-profile limestone piers with carved stone cornice and later double gates of wrought-iron with cast-iron finials.

• Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey Italianate style bank, built 1907, with advanced end-bays and single-storey wings, having return and recent single storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Parapet with central pedimented attic window flanked by balustrade and panelled pedestals to end bays reading ‘Estd’ and ‘1825’ over wide modillioned cornice. Pitched slate roof to return. Flat roof to extension. Red brick walls to first and second floors. Round-headed window openings to second floor with lugged architrave surrounds, keystones and limestone sills supported by corbels, and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Moulded limestone string course at first-floor window head level overlapped by limestone architraves to square-headed window openings having one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Ashlar limestone frontage to ground floor, composed of arcade on pilasters with decorated spandrels overlaid by larger order of pilasters at end bays, supporting entablature across full frontage with signage band to frieze. Fixed timber windows. Double-leaf timber panelled door to south end bay. Former entrance to northern bay altered to form window. Entablature extends to embrace side wings. Round-headed feature with marble colonettes supporting impost and archivolt, and keystone bearing carved initials ‘HB’, now incorporating ATM, to north wing. Ashlar limestone round-headed carriage arch with recent double gates and ornamental wrought-iron overthrow to south wing. Double-leaf internal doors to banking hall with fixed overlight. Compartmentalised ceiling supported by cast and foliated stucco brackets and cast-iron column. Fine wrought-iron railings to street boundary supported on a limestone plinth with stylized floral motifs.

• Fox Shoes, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1870, with shopfront to ground floor and three-storey extension of c.1975 to rear. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with channel-jointed quoins. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows, painted sills and moulded architraves. Square-headed door to upstairs accommodation north of shopfront with moulded architrave and historic timber panelled door. Shopfront to ground floor flanked by panelled pilasters with decorative stucco corbels supporting fascia and cornice incorporating awning, tilted signage band with 'Footwear FOX, Specialist.' in historic gilt lettering. Recessed glazed timber door with overlight flanked by curved glass display windows with slender colonette corner mullions over rendered panelled stall risers in corresponding curve. Mosaic-tiled threshold laid in fan pattern with coloured meander border and inlaid serif lettering reading 'THE WHITE HOUSE'.

• Abbey Tower, bell tower/stand, 1450–1470 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay three-stage bell tower, built c.1460, altered c.1740, now a roofless ruin. Coursed random rubble limestone walls offset at each stage with sandstone string course terminating first stage and carved stone cornice terminating second stage, all with recent cement pointing. Plaque to Owen Roe O'Neill, erected c.1990, to south side of the tower. Round-headed openings to ground floor entrance and four sides of third stage, all with moulded architraves, plinth, impost blocks and keystones.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

No susceptibility class on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2071 (ZIP).

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

Name

Abbeyland

Area

34,870 m² (3.49 ha, 8.62 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Cavan Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cavan Urban electoral division: 3,868 people in 1,581 households; 35% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumavanagh, Keadew, Kinnypottle, Lurganboy, Townparks

Placenames

Abbeyland 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.