Loughdawan
Loughdawan is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlumman, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan. Its name in Irish is Loch Damháin.
Parcel 445999
- Area
- 39,462 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Loughdawan
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 10 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 low, 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 184.4 ha
- 456 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 5,521 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughdawan, from 361 m² to 158,791 m² (15.88 ha, 39.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Loughdawan 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
7 May 2025Refused
for change of use of previous mushroom packing house to dog breeding establishment, exercise area and all associated works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560219
2 May 2025N/a
for change of use of previous mushroom packing house to dog breeding establishment, exercise area and all associated works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560215
4 Dec 2024Conditional
to construct a three bay agricultural shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, creep areas, dry bedded calf pens, also construct a dung stead and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2474
8 Mar 2023Conditional
to (1) Demolish rear extension, (2) Construct extension to dwelling, (3) Alter and increase height of existing single storey dwelling, (4) incorporate wastewater treatment system/percolation area and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2389
19 Apr 2021Conditional
to retain an existing detached garage together with front boundary wall with entrance as constructed, all of which services an existing dormer bungalow and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21221
8 Feb 2021Conditional
construct detached dwelling, detached domestic garage, incorporate wastewater treatment system and percolation area, form new entrance to public road and carry out associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2150
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 Loughdawan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughdawan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughdawan.
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 Loughdawan, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughdawan.
- 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 Loughdawan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Loughdawan · Loch Damháin
- Area
- 1,844,066 m² (184.41 ha, 455.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlumman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Loughdawan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 329 people lived in 126 households in the Loughdawan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickclevan, Dingins, Drumbrucklis, Drumgore, Drumhawragh, Middletown, Pottle, Woteraghy
- Placenames
- Loughdawan 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.