Bawn

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawn, from 67 m² to 132,762 m² (13.28 ha, 32.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Bawn 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  to (a) construct single storey extension to side of existing dwelling (b) construct two storey extension incorporating a balcony to rear of existing dwelling together with alterations to plans/elevations, (c) change of use of existing lower ground floor space from garage & utility to habitable space (d) install waste water treatment system & percolation area previously approved under planning reference 2560018 and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560568

• 21 Jan 2025Conditional

  for as-built single storey split level dwelling over garage and utility room (which differs in terms of orientation and position on site from Approved Plans, Reg. Ref. No. 645629) and associated site works. Planning Permission is sought for new rear site boundary

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560018

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  for a fully serviced, single storey duel level bungalow style dwelling, new sewage treatment & percolation area, asphalt driveway, entrance gate and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2419

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV019-006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A turreted house and bawn, possibly in Scottish baronial style, was supposedly built here in the post-Plantation period by Sir Claude Hamilton. No visible remains at ground level.The precise location of this feature is not known. (Davies 1948, 123-24) 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 Bawn.

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

At the centre of the townland of Bawn, 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 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 Bawn.

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.

No address of the register names Bawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Bawn · An Bábhún

Area

568,433 m² (56.84 ha, 140.46 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Killashandra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,092 people lived in 438 households in the Killashandra electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghavadrin, Derrindrehid, Disert, Killytawny, Portaliff or Townparks, Yewer Glebe

Placenames

Bawn 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.