Drumalt

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumalt, from 14 m² to 382,016 m² (38.2 ha, 94.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  for the construction of an ambulant disabled toilet and storeroom, alterations to existing entrance and playground area, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560677

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct a 3G Astro Turf pitch (70m x 45m) to the rear of the existing school building to include ancillary metal cage surrounds, netting and integrated concrete retaining ball wall, flood lighting, sprint track, storage shed, boundary walls and fencing, pedestrian and emergency vehicle entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560505

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  for proposed single-storey extension to the existing commercial premises to provide a CVR Test Centre for LGV vehicles, Associated alterations to site layout including revised car parking, Relocation of existing ESB pole, All associated site works and services

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560426

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  for change existing general purpose store building to funeral home premises. Construct single storey extension to side and front of existing building. Alter existing building facades and reclad. Carry out alterations to yard area to form carpark. Alter existing entrance onto longford street. Erect signage board

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2515

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  to retain change of use of garage previously approved under planning ref. 05/975 to habitable space to include developed attic together with alterations to elevations and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460514

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of existing two storey dwelling house and sheds (B) the construction of a replacement two storey dwelling house with single storey elements, boundary walls, new domestic garage and storage shed, connection to the town storm/foul sewer and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460467

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  for retention permission for the relocation of a two storey extension to the rear of an existing end-of-terrace townhouse, previously granted planning permission under planning reference 23/60063, which is currently under construction, completion of extension to include internal and external alterations to same and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460385

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  for change of use of an existing commercial premises to office space on ground and first floor, internal and eternal alterations and all ancillary site work

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460306

• 23 May 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a two storey detached dwelling house (on a site previously granted planning permission for 2 nr. semi-detached houses under planning ref: 99/1075) and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460226

• 18 Jan 2024Conditional

  for changes made to one-bedroom dwelling house during construction to include: change of house type granted under planning reference number: 644546, to include, changes to all walls, window and door locations, replacement of flat roof with pitch roof. With connection to existing services and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460016

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct detached house and attached garage with associated landscaping, pedestrian and vehicular access from the public lane, house 215m2, two storey, comprising of 4 no. bedrooms, study, kitchen, living, dining and ancillary spaces, garage 30m2, comprising of storage

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23325

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of an existing end-of-terrace townhouse consisting of bedroom accommodation on first floor and living accommodation on ground floor, external and internal alterations, demolition of existing exempt rear extension and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360063

• 18 Nov 2022Conditional

  to carry out the following development works to an existing end of terrace two-storey commercial building (former Bank of Ireland building) at Market Square View, Main street, Arvagh, Co. Cavan H12 W893. (1) Change of use from financial services to residential use and the provision of 4 no. new apartments (2 no. two-bedroom & 2 no. one-bedroom apartments). (2) Carry out material alterations to existing building comprising of minor alterations to external elevations and renovation works to the building fabric (3) Together with all associated site development works including provision of communal open space to the rear yard and connections to public services. This building is listed as a Protected Structure in the current Cavan County Development Plan.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22461

• 11 Jul 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of an existing end-of-terrace townhouse consisting of bedroom accommodation on first floor, living accommodation on ground floor, rear patio space, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22287

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the erection of a single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21785

• 19 Jul 2021N/a

  for the installation of an ATM machine to the existing front elevation (East) , significant further information has been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21448

• 17 Jun 2021Conditional

  erection of a single storey extension to the back / side of existing detached dwelling and associated renovations

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21375

• 12 Mar 2021Refused

  for the replacement of an existing telecommunications support structure and attached equipment (overall height of 13.3 metres) with a proposed new lattice tower support structure (overall height of 25.5 metres) carrying replacement equipment and the addition of new telecommunications antennas, dishes and associated equipment , together with new equipment cabinets, fencing and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21128

• 21 Nov 2019Conditional

  to retain extended shop to ground floor level and extended apartment to first floor level of existing building, associated alterations to elevations and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19453

• 23 Oct 2019N/a

  to retain extended shop to ground floor level and extended apartment to first floor level of existing building, associated alterations to elevations and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19411

• 21 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a jetty and slipway to service Garty Lough and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18113

• 18 Oct 2017Conditional

  to retain alterations to front elevation of shop unit including new shop front

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 17447

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  of the following: 1. demolition of single storey store to rear and side and part of first floor residential to rear 2. alterations to existing ground floor retail premises to include amalgamation of adjoining retail premises 3. a change of use from existing retail use to retail with ancillary off-licence use 4. construct a single storey extension to rear and side of existing retail unit 5. change of use of part of first floor area from residential to office use 6. alterations to shop front/elevation and addition of new signage throughout 7. additional parking to rear to include paving, lighting and landscaping; 8. all the above with associated site works and alterations

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17335

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  to install an ATM to front window of existing Bank Of Ireland building with associated elevation alterations to protected structure No. 40302006

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17265

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  to retain alterations to existing dwelling. Bay window extensions to front of dwelling. Conservatory and rear extension. Conversion of roof void and associated roof windows. Extension to existing domestic garage and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17174

The 25 most recent of 26 applications.

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 Drumalt.

Recorded monuments

• CV030-040 Crannog
  Description

  Located in a small U-shaped bay (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 50m N-S) on the S shore of the subrectangular Garty Lough (dims c. 1.23km ENE-WSW; c. 0.5-0.95km NNW-SSE), but this feature is not depicted on any map. A small wooded island (diam. c. 10m) is visible on all the available aerial imagery from 1995 onwards. It was first reported by Anne-Karoline Distel but has not yet been visited. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 November 2022

Architectural heritage

• Latrine, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron vent pipe, c.1870, with fluted base, plain cast-iron shaft and crown head.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey house and shop, built c.1870, with shopfront to ground floor and integral carriage-arch to north bay, two-storey return to rear. Pitched replacement slate roof, red brick chimneystacks to gables and ridge having plat bands and projecting bands with decorative corbels, moulded corbels at eaves, replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls, channelled to ground floor and having raised rendered plinth. Raised render quoins to south and painted quoins to north. Window openings to first floor having moulded render surrounds and stone sills supported on corbels. Channelled keystone above ground floor window. Replacement uPVC windows. Channelled voussoir above segmental-headed carriage arch. Round-headed door opening with moulded profile having freestanding barley-sugar twisted columns with Ionic capitals and stepped bases, supporting dentilated entablature and single pane fanlight. Timber door incorporating bolection panels, limestone threshold. Timber shopfront comprising central glazed door flanked by single pane display windows, segmental timber arches to transom lights above and panelled stall riser below. Fluted pilasters with carved console brackets supporting round-headed fascia-ends, dentilated course over recent fascia sign.

• Wilmik House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to north bay. Pitched slate roof, shared rendered chimneystack to party wall, replacement rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls having continuous raised strip quoins to north corner. Rubble stone walls to gable. Window openings having stone sills and two-over-two timber sash windows. Central door opening with replacement door and multiple pane overlight approached by flight of steps. Timber shopfront comprising glazed door and large display window having panelled pilasters supporting plain fascia terminated by console brackets, steps to door.

• Arvagh Library, market house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached nine-bay two-storey former market house and court house, built c.1820, with central three-bay pedimented breakfront, and outer three bays with canted bays flanking central door to north block. Renovated 2001, partly used as a courthouse until 2008, now in use as library. Pitched slate roof with perforated crested clay ridge tiles, modillions to eaves course. Brick chimneystacks with stepped collar bands to south gable and pair to north wing, cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed ashlar limestone breakfront having horizontal and raked modillion cornice to pediment and semi-circular opening with louvers to tympanum. Rendered outer bays having raised render quoins and cut stone string course at first floor sill level. Roughcast rendered walls to rear and side elevations. External stairs to south gable formerly providing access to courtroom to south. Gabled central rear bay. Window openings to first floor having moulded string course at sill level, one-over-one timber sash windows. Round-headed central arch elliptically chamfered to ground floor, recessed replacement door screen behind. Windows having moulded stucco surrounds and one-over-one timber sash windows, margin panes to centre window of ground floor. North wing having central segmental-headed door opening with moulded architrave, keystone, and stone sills to three-quarter side lights. Timber panelled door with fanlight. Stone step and threshold. Doorway flanked by canted bay windows with hipped roofs having scalloped-shaped slates, one-over-one timber sashes, timber sills, and rendered plinths. One-over-one timber sash windows and replacement doors to rear. Market scales and weight still extant internally. Set back from street line with former market square to front.

• Bank of Ireland, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace double-pile three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, with bank to ground floor c.1930. Now in use as bank. Pitched slate roof with moulded timber eaves course supported on corbels, red brick chimneystacks to north gables and ridge having collar band and projecting course supported on decorative corbels and surmounted by octagonal-profile clay pots, replacement stack to south gable, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Lined-and-ruled render to bankfront, terminating with decorative curved kneeler, sitting on smooth rendered plinth. Roughcast rendered walls to north gable elevations over smooth plinth. Segmental-headed windows with patent reveals and stone sills having one-over-one timber sash windows. Bankfront with recent fascia below convex modillioned cornice. Entrance with segmental-headed opening having timber panelled double doors. Single window bay to north and two window bays to south of entrance with deep-set windows of recent type above rendered walls. Cast-iron railings on plinth standing to front of window recesses. Segmental-headed windows with one-over-one timber sashes with exposed sash boxes to gable elevations. Round-headed opening to door in rear gable with moulded surround and replacement timber door screen.

• Hill House, house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1920, with gabled projecting full-height end bays to front elevation, and two-bay two-storey return to rear. Now also in use as veterinary surgery. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with stepped collar bands. Timber bargeboards, terracotta finals to projecting bays and return, stepped finials near eaves flanking gables, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with bevelled smooth rendered plinth. Projecting bays having channelled banding to sides and roughcast render to gables, wiith dentillated course below, moulded double profile to mid height of upper paired windows with wetdash to wall between one-over-one timber sashes. Moulded string course to sill level of upper windows continuous across façade, with continuous smooth band and smaller moulded string below. Smooth rendered walls to gables. Roughcast rendered walls to rear and return. Triple light timber casements to ground floor of projecting bays with lights to sides and curved profile sills. Central bay of main elevation with arch below balcony. Panelled timber entrance door with glazed upper sections and overlight with margin panes. Wetdash render to balcony walls with dentillated course over continuing from gables and glazed timber double doors. Open stucco balustrade to front of balcony. One-over-one timber sashes with margin panes to gable elevations, rear and return. Replacement glazed rear and return doors with side and overlights. Decorative cast-iron double gates with scrollwork with square-profile rendered piers having decorative recess panels and stepped cappings, with flanking curved wing walls, having further piers with ball finials.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Italian-Romanesque style Roman Catholic church, built 1927-9, having gabled entrance front flanked by three-stage bell-towers, seven-bay nave with side aisles, rounded apse, side entrance porches, gable fronted single-storey sacristy to north-east. Pitched slate roof, stone verge coping to gables surmounted by cross finials, limestone ashlar chimneystack with cornice detail to sacristy gable, sections of cast-iron gutters with square-profile hopper heads. Cut stone cornice and deep eaves course supported by carved corbels. Coursed squared limestone rubble walls having raised plinth with chamfered course, granite ashlar quoins. Granite plat band above windows almost continuous around church. Round-headed granite surrounds to openings with double course to arches and cut stone sills. Gabled front elevation having Lombard band to eaves, recessed rose window with granite surrounds and hood moulding. Stepped string course to elevation above door with pediment having Sacred Heart statue in front of rose window. Round-headed entrance arch with concave reveals having apsidal stoop niches, stepped archivolt, and hood moulding. Bipartite square-headed door arrangement and mosaic in tympanum above. Timber sheeted double doors with decorative ironmongery. Round-headed windows flanking opening with stone steps to entrance. Square-plan three-stage towers have overhanging pyramidal roof surmounted by crosses. Granite ashlar upper stage having Lombard band to eaves course and round-arched openings to four sides. Coursed squared limestone to lower stages with granite dressings, slit windows, and string courses. Round-headed windows to end of aisles flanking towers and having external corners marked with clasping buttresses. Granite coping to parapet of side aisles and side porches having pediment breaking parapet with blind oculus and continuing a plat band at sill level of altar end. Quatrefoil openings to north-east elevation of side aisles. Sheeted timber doors to porches having decorative ironmongery and fanlights over. Plain ashlar pilasters to apse. Barrel vault plaster ceiling to nave having transverse plaster arches supported on decorative corbels, nave arcade with stucco decoration to arches resting on plain columns, vaulted plaster ceiling to side aisles. Colour glass windows with fish-scale pattern. Gallery to entrance end spanning full width with horizontal coffered ceiling to underside. Round-headed glazed timber doors and overlights to entrances below gallery. Richly panelled marble and mosaic to altar and side altar. Timber confessionals freestanding in arched niches beside side porches. Geometric tiled floor and timber pews. Church set back from the road bounded by rubble stone walls having square-plan gate piers with carved cross to semi-circular gabled capstones and wrought-iron gates.

• Garage, 1920–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached gable-fronted two-bay double-height garage, built c.1940, having set-back extension to east. Barrel corrugated-metal roof. Smooth rendered walls to front elevation having gable with raised apex section, square concrete coping, roughcast render to gable with smooth margin band, oculus to centre with smooth rendered surround. Façade flanked by smooth rendered square-plan piers with projecting square copings standing higher than start of gable. Roughcast render to side elevations with buttresses at intervals. Square-headed opening to east with sheeted timber, glazed screen, and uPVC door to west. Open plan interior with roof supported by metal trusses. Set back from road.

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 made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Drumalt

Area

1,013,287 m² (101.33 ha, 250.39 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Arvagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Arvagh electoral division: 967 people in 385 households; 74% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brankill, Drumnawall, Farrangarve, Gartylough, Ticosker, Woodland

Placenames

Drumalt 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.