Cavan (Moutray)

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cavan (Moutray), from 151 m² to 76,376 m² (7.64 ha, 18.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Cavan (Moutray) 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.

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  permission to erect new extension to rear and side of existing dwelling, insert new filter unit and percolation area (as replacement for existing septic tank) and re-design existing exit on to public road and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2664

• 8 Jan 2026Conditional

  permission will consist of the construction of a new 2 storey dwelling with an attached domestic garage and car-port, including a wastewater treatment plant and raised polishing filter, with new access onto public road, and associated works, significant further information received includes revised drawings

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 261

• 11 Dec 2025N/a

  permission for a development which will consist of 2 storey dwelling with an attached domestic garage and car port, including a wastewater treatment plant and raised polishing filter, with new access on to public road and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 25106

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  The construction of a bunaglow type dwelling, a detached domestic garage, a waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 179003

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 Cavan (Moutray).

Recorded monuments

• MO001-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.6m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a scarp (at W: Wth 2.2m; H 0.65m; at E: Wth 2.1m; H 1.15m) with the entrance suggested by a dip in the perimeter at E (Wth 3.9m). There is no visible fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cavan (Moutray).

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

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Cavan (Moutray).

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 Cavan (Moutray) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Cavan (Moutray) · An Cabhán (Moutray)

Area

749,863 m² (74.99 ha, 185.3 acres)

Civil parish

Errigal Trough, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Derrygorry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derrygorry electoral division: 292 people in 104 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dernaved, Derrygorry, Derryrellan, Drumbirn, Esker, Killyslavan, Mullaghmore

Placenames

Cavan (Moutray) 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.