Killycannan

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killycannan, from 22 m² to 149,430 m² (14.94 ha, 36.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Killycannan 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.

• 27 Feb 2026Conditional

  to (1) carry out alterations to the existing dwelling to provide an extension to the front and rear of the dwelling at ground floor level, and to provide an extension to the side of the dwelling at first floor level with associated alterations to existing floor plans and elevations, (2) demolition of the existing conservatory, covered patio to the front of the house, and of existing roof structures where the proposed first floor extension is to be constructed, connection to existing services, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660087

• 11 Feb 2026N/a

  for : (1) to carry out alterations to the existing dwelling to provide an extension to the front and rear of the dwelling at ground floor level, and to provide an extension to the side of the dwelling at first floor level with associated alterations to existing floor plans and elevations, (2) demolition of the existing conservatory, covered patio to the front of the house, and of existing roof structures where the proposed first floor extension is to be constructed, connection to existing services, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660060

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  to erect single storey extension(s) to rear of existing dwelling with attached domestic garage, new sewerage treatment and peroclation area and demolish derelict outshedsand all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21311

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 Killycannan.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. 53m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by traces of an earthen bank. A field boundary running NNW-SSE divides the internal area into two roughly equal portions. Although the portion of the site E of this has been levelled, the perimeter can still be clearly traced. In recent times drystone walling has been applied to the outer face of the embankment from S-SW. There are modern trenches outside of bank from SSE-S and from NW-N. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killycannan.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2073 (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 Killycannan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Killycannan

Area

672,165 m² (67.22 ha, 166.1 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Bellananagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellananagh electoral division: 1,628 people in 579 households; 64% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Clarebane, Cornaseer, Corrakane, Corraveaty, Dreenan, Knockakishta, Shannow

Placenames

Killycannan 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.