Loughdawan

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

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.

• 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.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Loughdawan.

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

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

Loughdawan electoral division: 329 people in 126 households; 91% of households own 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.