Cavan
Cavan is a townland in the civil parish of Clones, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Cabhán.
Parcel 315102
- Area
- 3,296 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 137 m².
- 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
- Cavan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 71.8 ha
- 177 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 31,087 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan, from 426 m² to 120,865 m² (12.09 ha, 29.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Sept 2026N/a
planning permission to construct a storey & a half / dormer type dwelling house, with detached domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system, upgraded site entrance & new site access section, together with other associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660399
20 Nov 2024Refused
I Gerry Courtney, intend to apply for retention permission for development at Cavan & Carrivetragh Td., Clones, Co. Monaghan. The development consists of; A retention of 2 No. Agricultural sheds one of which has been partially converted into an independent living unit and all associated site works, Significant Further information received relates to submitted, Company letter to remove Turkey waste, letter from Irish bait & Tackle Ltd removing dead birds, Fertiliser Plan 2025,Water protection check list, Visibilty splays and response letter to submitter,
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460421
17 Sept 2024N/a
permission for retention of a development at Cavan & Carrivetragh Td., Clones, Co. Monaghan.The development consists of; A retention of 2 No. Agricultural sheds one of which has been partially converted into an independent living unit and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460347
24 Jul 2024N/a
retention of 2No. Agricultural sheds one of which has been partially converted into an independent living unit and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460257
28 Jun 2024N/a
retention permission for 2 no. agricultural sheds one of which has been partially converted into an independent living unit and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460229
22 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission to erect fully serviced bungalow type extension to existing dwelling, alterations to elevations, with detached domestic garage, new sewerage treatment facilities, alterations to site boundaries, site entrance & all ancillary works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20385
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 Cavan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cavan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cavan, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cavan · An Cabhán
- Area
- 717,651 m² (71.77 ha, 177.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clones, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Clones Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,612 people lived in 603 households in the Clones Rural electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrivetragh, Gortnawinny, Magheranure
- 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.