Quivvy

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quivvy, from 70 m² to 191,459 m² (19.15 ha, 47.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Quivvy 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.

• 13 Mar 2026Refused

  for construction of a part single storey, part one and half storey dwelling, detached single storey domestic garage, new site entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660114

• 24 Sept 2025Conditional

  for construction of new single storey extension to side of existing dwelling with associated alterations to plans and elevations, new detached domestic garage and carport, new sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560572

• 6 Aug 2025Refused

  for construction of a part single storey, part one and half storey dwelling, detached single storey domestic garage, new site entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560448

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  for detached domestic garage to existing dwelling and associated works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. Significant further information/revised plans have been received and a NIS has been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21234

• 4 Sept 2020Conditional

  for renovation and extension of existing single storey dwelling. Works to include erection of a single storey extension to the east side of the dwelling, alterations to the internal layout & elevations and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20388

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced part dormer, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority in connection with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19375

• 24 May 2019Refused

  to erect fully serviced part two storey, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19193

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  to retain the following development consisting of the conversion of a deconsecrated church building to residential usage, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. The building is designated as a Protected Structure in the Cavan County Development Plan 2014-2020 (Ref. No. CV11027)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17138

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Quivvy.

Architectural heritage

• Lanesborough Lodge, country house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor Revival three-bay two-storey house with canted central entrance bay, built c.1810, extended to rear in 1846. Now in ruins. Roof no longer extant. Render over stone construction, with ashlar dressings. Square-headed openings with ashlar transoms and mullions.

• Quivvy Church (Drumlane), church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival former Church of Ireland church, built 1854-6; dated 1855, having three-bay nave,gabled entrance porch to west gable, square-plan three-stage bell tower to north-west, chancel to east. and vestry to south-east. Closed, 1986, and adapted in 1993 to use as house and recording studio. Steeply pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, stone fractables to gables having fleur-de-lys finial to main gable, cast-iron gutters on profiled stone brackets, cast-iron downpipes. Ashlar stone spire with weathervane above cornice and octagonal-profile base forming belfry at uppermost stage of tower, set in pitched stone roof, over tower below. Snecked sandstone walls with buttresses and slightly battered plinth. Chamfer detail to tower corners. Raised shield below having incised Latin cross and relieving arch. Paired lancets to ground stage of tower with flush ashlar surround and recessed panel at head, similar panel to rear of tower with inscription "1855/BLESSED ARE THE PURE/OF HEART FOR THEY/SHALL SEE GOD/ MATT. V. AND 8.". Quatrefoil windows to middle stage of tower, set in raised circular stone surround. Ogee quatrefoil window to west gable, lancet windows to nave, and graduated five-lancet window to chancel, all having glazed metal windows with lattice margin and oval panes. Entrance porch with trefoil to gable over pointed arch doorway with hood mould and replacement timber and glass door, flanked by small paired side lancets. Segmental-arched door to vestry.

• Lanesborough Lodge, gate lodge, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Tudor-Revival style three-bay single-storey with dormer attic gate lodge, built 1859, with open asymmetrical porch, single- and two-storey extension, c.2000, to rear and east. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof to house and porch with clay ridge tiles, decorative timber barges and eaves, pressed metal rainwater goods, rendered chimneystack to centre of ridge. Squared and snecked roughly dressed limestone walls, with smooth block-and-start sandstone to corners and smooth bevelled plinth. Butler family coat-of-arms in square frame to main elevation, date ‘1859’ in shield motif to porch gable. Bipartite and tripartite mullioned windows at ground floor and gables with metal lattice glazing in timber frames, chamfered sandstone surrounds with Tudor hoods. Chamfered sandstone surround to door openings and to pointed arches on three faces of porch. Pointed panelled timber door with metal studs within porch having exposed timber rafters to ceiling. Set on east side of drive behind pair of bevelled stone gate piers with decorative cast-iron gates.

• Lanesborough Lodge, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school with gabled projecting central porch, built c.1845, having single-bay two-storey master's house to end gable. Now in ruins. Roof no longer extant. Red brick chimneystacks. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar sandstone dressings to square-headed window, segmental-arched door, and lancet openings.

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 Quivvy, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Quivvy.

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

Name

Quivvy · Cuibhe

Area

1,950,638 m² (195.06 ha, 482.01 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlane, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Grilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 165 households in the Grilly electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunanumery, Clowninny, Edenterriff, Greathill, Killylea, Portruan

Placenames

Quivvy 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.