Drumacarrow

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumacarrow, from 27 m² to 267,883 m² (26.79 ha, 66.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Drumacarrow 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.

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey garage to the rear of the property. Access to the garage will be via the existing entrance. Garage to match existing brick and pebble dash facade of existing house. 6m to the peak of the roof

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560119

• 19 Mar 2025N/a

  for the construction of a single story garage to the rear of the house. 6m to the peak of the roof. Access to the garage will be via the existing entrance

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560109

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  for the development of a storey and a half dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, use of existing laneway and vehicular entrance, provision of entrance piers, together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460042

• 25 Sept 2023N/a

  to construct a two storey extension to the side and rear of existing single storey detached dwelling, demolition of existing single storey extension, upgrade waste water treatment system, polishing filter and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360197

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  to install a 24m multi-user lattice type telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fenced compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works, including a new access track on lands. Significant further information has been received

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23272

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  for a detached domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22112

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  construct single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, install proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area, form new entrance from public road together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19512

• 22 May 2019Conditional

  of (1) single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling, (2) RETENTION of existing canopy/awning to dwelling, and (3) all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19194

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  for the following alterations to dwelling and domestic garage previously approved under planning application ref. no. 07/1024: (a) RETENTION of single storey front porch (originally designed as a two storey), (b) RETENTION of omission of single storey bedroom wing indicated on the original approved plans, (c) PERMISSION to construct a single storey sun room to side and a detached domestic garage, (d) together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19167

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  of (a) conversion of attic space in existing dwelling, (b) 3 no. rooflights in front roof of existing dwelling, (c) 1 no. rooflight in rear roof of existing dwelling, (d) domestic garage, (e) location of existing entrance as to what was previously approved and (f) all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19136

• 25 Jul 2018Conditional

  the following alterations to dwelling and domestic garage previously approved under planning application ref. no. 07/1024: (a) retain single storey front porch (originally designed as a two storey) (b) retain omission of a single storey sun room and single storey bedroom wing indicated on the original approved plans (c) permission is also sought to construct a detached domestic garage in revised location from that approved under the original planning application (d) together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18314

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 Drumacarrow.

Recorded monuments

• CV034-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' and indicated as a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 40m) on the OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Site is divided into two unequal portions by a field boundary running NNE-SSW. A raised area enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and traces of a fosse is visible WNW of the boundary. The larger portion ESE of this has been levelled. 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

• CV034-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Conjoined raths now separated by a laneway which probably overlies a fosse. The NW rath comprises a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and traces of a fosse. From NNE-SE bank has been modified and incorporated into field boundary. It is accompanied by a modern narrow external trench. From SE-S-W and from NW-N-NNE fosse has been destroyed and replaced by a laneway. Original entrance not recognisable. The SE rath comprises a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse and substantial earthen bank. Original entrance at SE. 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

• Drumacarrow House, farm house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular farmhouse, built c.1810, with irregularly fenestrated rear elevation having projecting windbreak porch. Pitched articifial slate roof with red brick chimneystacks flanking centre bay and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render worn to expose coursed rubble stone masonry with dressed limestone block-and-start quoins. Two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, four-over-four and six-over-six timber sliding sash windows to rear, all with limestone sills. Replacement uPVC door to front and timber battened door to rear porch. Farmyard comprising three ranges of outbuildings, two single-storey ranges with galvanised roofs and one two-storey building with slate roof. Smooth-rendered wing walls and piers with forged ironwork gates to entrance.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Drumacarrow, Bailieborough6 sales

Name

Drumacarrow

Area

2,084,295 m² (208.43 ha, 515.04 acres)

Civil parish

Bailieborough, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Bailieborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bailieborough electoral division: 4,230 people in 1,546 households; 73% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnalynch, Corlurgan, Cornanaff, Dromore, Drutamy, Galbolie, Monaghanoose

Placenames

Drumacarrow 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.