Drumauna

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumauna, from 52 m² to 132,894 m² (13.29 ha, 32.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Drumauna 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct a single storey detached family member accommodation unit to existing dwelling house, together with shared access and services with the existing dwelling. Planning permission is also sought to upgrade the existing septic tank to a new combined proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, and all associated site development works. The proposed family unit is intended for occupation by an immediate family member and will remain in use as part of the existing single dwelling unit

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560679

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  to erect a mobile home accommodation unit ancillary to the existing dwelling and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560182

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  to erect 2 no. permanent structures adjacent to existing building to form new outdoor covered areas (total area=75m2) ancillary to bar & restaurant use, together with all associated works. All the above in use solely during assigned opening hours

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21291

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 Drumauna.

Recorded monuments

• CV016-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. All that survives today is a short stretch of low earthen bank running from NNE-E, defining a much-levelled slightly raised area. From WSW-N-NNE the outline of the perimeter can be traced. Situated on the summit of a drumlin hill. 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

• Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Classical revival pedimented five-bay Roman Catholic church, built 1947-1948, having five-bay nave elevations and projecting chancel flanked by flat-roofed side wings. Pitched copper roof to nave with metal crosses on copper pedestals to gables, articulated stack to north-west corner, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth-rendered walls with channel-jointed rustication up to sill level of side elevations and tall plinth course. Open-bed pediment with deep coving to entrance gable supported on advanced rusticated outer bays, coved entablature carried round side elevations, rustication carried around corner. Central oculus to gable at high level having moulded surround and louvers. Round-headed west window with moulded archivolt and keystone over panelled pedestal surmounting main entrance door, all set in concave rusticated surround. Rusticated outer bays pierced by square-headed windows at both levels upper level window in arched recess with prominent keystone rising to entablature, ground level windows in square-headed recess with keystones. Main entrance door flanked by square-headed doors in architraves with keystones. Round-headed windows to nave with prominent keystone motif. Single-cell interior with elaborate ceiling having flat perimeter with segmental-valuted centre raised above coved entablature decorated with festoons. Freestanding reredos and freestanding altar to apse. Side altars in niches. Gallery across western bay with confessionals below. Contemporary timber bench seating with open backs on turned uprights. Square-profile five-stage bell tower connected by screen wall to south-west, having octagonal-profile top stage and square-profile with chamfered corners to three stages below. Copper domed roof. Rusticated render to ground floor, smooth render above. Round-headed belfry arches with moulded cornices to upper stage. Round-headed window in recess at fourth stage and round-headed slit windows at lower stages. Rendered boundary walls and gate piers.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumauna

Area

924,467 m² (92.45 ha, 228.44 acres)

Civil parish

Drung, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Drung, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drung electoral division: 541 people in 184 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnadaragan, Doocassan, Drumachon, Drumhillagh, Drumrane, Killymullin

Placenames

Drumauna 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.