Drumacon
Townland in the civil parish of Drumlane, barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan; in Irish Droim Dhá Chon
- Area
- 107 ha
- 264 acres
- Land parcels
- 100
- registered freehold, median 2,623 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumacon, from 20 m² to 113,939 m² (11.39 ha, 28.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumacon 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jan 2019Conditional
erect a single storey porch and conservatory extensions to front and side of existing two storey dwelling, construct bellmouth walls and piers to existing entrance, and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1929
6 Jun 2018Conditional
to construct single storey extensions to front and side and two-storey extension to rear, detached domestic garage with loft space, alterations to elevations, associated works and connection to existing services
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18228
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumacon.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumacon.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumacon.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumacon.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumacon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumacon · Droim Dhá Chon
- Area
- 1,070,205 m² (107.02 ha, 264.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilconny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilconny electoral division: 643 people in 226 households; 79% of households own their home; 60% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavilla, Ballynamannan, Drumbarlom, Drumcole, Drummany Montiaghs, Kilconny, Lisnamaine or Sycamore Fields, Rafian
- Placenames
- Drumacon 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.