diff --git a/WHATS_NEW b/WHATS_NEW
index 810411914..b06071c42 100644
--- a/WHATS_NEW
+++ b/WHATS_NEW
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Version 2.03.13 - 
 ===============================
+  Fix detection of active components of external origin volume.
   Add vdoimport tool to support conversion of VDO volumes.
   Support configurable allocation/vdo_pool_header_size.
   Fix handling of lvconvert --type vdo-pool --virtualsize.
diff --git a/lib/activate/activate.c b/lib/activate/activate.c
index 6bda7385b..94fc9441d 100644
--- a/lib/activate/activate.c
+++ b/lib/activate/activate.c
@@ -2740,7 +2740,10 @@ static int _component_cb(struct logical_volume *lv, void *data)
 	    (lv_is_thin_pool(lv) && pool_is_active(lv)))
 		return -1;
 
-	if (lv_is_active(lv)) {
+	/* External origin is activated through thinLV and uses -real suffix.
+	 * Note: for old clustered logic we would need to check for all thins */
+	if ((lv_is_external_origin(lv) && lv_info(lv->vg->cmd, lv, 1, NULL, 0, 0)) ||
+	    lv_is_active(lv)) {
 		if (!lv_is_component(lv) || lv_is_visible(lv))
 			return -1;	/* skip whole subtree */
 
diff --git a/test/shell/lvconvert-cache-thin.sh b/test/shell/lvconvert-cache-thin.sh
index 7dda6e6ff..9254239ee 100644
--- a/test/shell/lvconvert-cache-thin.sh
+++ b/test/shell/lvconvert-cache-thin.sh
@@ -67,4 +67,26 @@ fail lvconvert --yes --thinpool $vg/$lv1 --poolmetadata $vg/$lv
 # Thin-pool CAN use cached data LV
 lvconvert --yes --thinpool $vg/$lv
 
+lvremove -f $vg
+
+# Check we can active snapshot of cached external origin (BZ: 1967744)
+lvcreate -T -L10M $vg/pool "$dev1"
+
+lvcreate -L10M -n origin $vg "$dev1"
+lvcreate -H -L4M -n CPOOL $vg/origin "$dev2"
+
+# Use cached origin as external origin
+lvconvert -y -T --thinpool $vg/pool --originname extorig origin
+
+# Check we can easily create snapshot of such LV
+lvcreate -y -kn -n snap -s $vg/origin
+
+# Deactivate everything and do a component activation of _cmeta volume
+lvchange -an $vg
+lvchange -ay -y $vg/CPOOL_cpool_cmeta
+
+# Now this must fail since component volume is active
+not lvcreate -y -kn -n snap2 -s $vg/origin |& tee err
+grep "cmeta is active" err
+
 vgremove -f $vg