Drumard

162 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumard, from 69 m² to 160,303 m² (16.03 ha, 39.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Drumard 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.

• 4 Feb 2026Refused

  for permission for the proposed development of 4 no. holiday chalets and change of use for tourism accommodation on a 1.01 hectare site at Drumard, Lough Carratraw, Co. Cavan. The development consists of the proposed erection of 4 no. holiday chalets, consisting of 2 no. 2 person occupancy chalets, 1 no. 4 person and 1 no. 6 person occupancy chalets serviced by an incorporated, established access point and route of a proposed improved permeable gravel surface as leads to a parking area for 6 no. cars, integrated covered cycle parking (14 no.) and refuse storage; a proposed wastewater treatment system (14 p.e. biocycle plant) and associated polishing filter percolation area with all associated above and below ground ancillary works and landscaping scheme. The planning application is accompanied with a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660047

• 29 Jan 2026N/a

  for the proposed development of 4 no. holiday chalets and change of use for tourism accommodation on a 1.01 hectare site at Drumard, Lough Carratraw, Co. Cavan. The development consists of the proposed erection of 4 no. holiday chalets, consisting of 2 no. 2 person occupancy chalets, 2 no. 4 person occupancy chalets serviced by an incorporated established access point and route of a proposed improved permeable gravel surface as leads to a parking area for 6 no. cars, integrated covered cycle parking (12 no.) and refuse storage; a proposed wastewater treatment system (14 p.e. biocycle plant) and associated polishing filter percolation area with all associated above and below ground ancillary works and landscaping scheme. . The planning application is accompanied with a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660037

• 30 Jun 2023Refused

  for holidaying and recreational use of the lands as allows for camping and caravanning on a site area of circa. 2.55 Hectares. The proposed development comprises the occasional and periodic use of the lands for camping, caravanning, holidaying and recreational breaks and to place no more than two caravans and two no. tents at any one time during a calendar year and to allow for periodic and intermittent stays for recreational purposes and to be utilised no more than 120 no. days per calendar year. The principal use of the lands being maintained and continued for agricultural purposes for the growing of fruit and vegetables for consumption and use by the landowner and family members

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360076

• 13 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct new slatted sheds together with all associated site works. Significant further information or revised plans as appropriate has been furnished to the Planning Authority and a Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with the further information

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17437

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
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV020-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 39.6m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide fosse which has been infilled from SE-S-SSW. Wide break in the bank at ESE may represent original entrance. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumard.

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 Drumard.

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

Name

Drumard

Area

1,218,987 m² (121.9 ha, 301.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Carrafin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrafin electoral division: 439 people in 147 households; 89% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corracanvy, Derrynagan, Derrywinny, Gartbrattan, Inishconnell, Killygowan, Pottle

Placenames

Drumard 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.