# Drumbar, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 175,466 m² (17.55 ha, 43.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,186 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Urney, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/urney.md - Barony: Loughtee Upper - Electoral division: Cavan Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 8,747 people lived in 2,931 households in the Cavan Rural electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4630 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20807 - Centre: latitude 53.998465, longitude -7.393206 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbar, from 1,914 m² to 55,963 m² (5.6 ha, 13.83 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 485768: 55,963 m² (5.6 ha, 13.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485768.md - Parcel 2435184: 52,821 m² (5.28 ha, 13.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2435184.md - Parcel 2416327: 13,927 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2416327.md - Parcel 4987517: 10,664 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987517.md - Parcel 5415681: 8,996 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5415681.md - Parcel 463832: 8,272 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/463832.md - Parcel 463849: 6,100 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/463849.md - Parcel 448561: 6,036 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/448561.md - Parcel 450490: 3,461 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450490.md - Parcel 4816291: 3,457 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816291.md - Parcel 477829: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477829.md - Parcel 467784: 1,914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/467784.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Cavan Town Local Area Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.cavancoco.ie/media/y0ka04fz/chapter-14_.pdf#page=6 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 14 Jan 2026, Cavan County Council 2660005: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for single storey pavilion structure as home gym totalling 58m2, including all associated site works, within the curtilage of the existing house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660005/0 - 21 May 2025, Cavan County Council 2560245: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for alterations to existing dwelling (previously approved under Pl. Ref No. 19302) to include alterations to plans, elevations, dwelling orientation, site layout, site boundaries & all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560245/0 - 7 May 2025, Cavan County Council 2560222: N/a. Retention. for retention of development at Drumbar, Cavan, Co. Cavan. The development consists of the retention of alterations to existing dwelling (previously approved under Pl. Ref No. 19302) to include alterations to plans, elevations, dwelling orientation, site layout, site boundaries & all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560222/0 - 18 Dec 2024, Cavan County Council 2460627: N/a. Retention. for retention of alterations to site layout, house orientation, site boundaries and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460627/0 - 21 Nov 2022, Cavan County Council 22470: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect a 2 storey extension to the rear of dwelling house at Drumelis, Co. Cavan. Proposal to include additional ensuite bedroom at 1st floor level, extended kitchen/ dining area at ground floor level, associated alterations to rear and side elevations and all ancillary siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22470/0 - 19 Nov 2020, Cavan County Council 20504: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain as constructed roofed structures within walled garden of Drumbar House for agricultural use and general storage use. Proposed development will include for a reduction in the height of a section of the existing roofed structures. Drumbar House, Farnham (CV44074) is listed as a protected structure in the current Cavan County Development Plan.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20504/0 - 7 Aug 2019, Cavan County Council 19302: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for development consisting of the erection of 1 No. part one, part two storey fully serviced dwelling and detached domestic carport and garage, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, provision of new entrance from public road inclusive of gates, piers and boundary walls and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19302/0 - 24 Jan 2018, Cavan County Council 1830: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, form entrance, install sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1830/0 - 21 Jun 2017, Cavan County Council 17277: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, form entrance, install sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated works. Existing planning reference 07/794 relates to this application and the application is sought to reduce the size and scale of the previously approved dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17277/0 - 8 Feb 2017, Cavan County Council 1735: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect single storey utility room extension to side and rear of dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1735/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumbar. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV020-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV020-025----. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by three earthen banks with intermediate fosses. From NE-SE the outer bank is low and wide and has a modern external trench. It has been faced with stone in recent times. Corresponding breaks in the intermediate and inner banks at SSW with accompanying causeways across the fosses may represent original entrance. An earlier description (OPW 1968) recorded a circular area (diam. 9m) defined by a very narrow, shallow, channel-like depression inside the bank at NNW. Immediately to the S of this a similar although less well-defined feature was identified. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Old Schoolhouse, school, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 40402015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402015. Detached five-bay two-storey former school, built c.1830, with recessed full-height bay to west gable and single-storey lean-to bay to east gable. Now in use as private house. Slate roof, eaves altered to have fascia, soffit, and bargeboard, rendered chimneystacks, and sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings, reducing in size to upper storey, with stone sills. Low central entrance having uPVC door. Two-over-four and two-over-two historic sash windows, uPVC windows to west gable. Two rear entrances with external stone stairs giving access to upper floor. Set at road junction with recent railings to front. Rubble stone outbuilding to rear. - Drumbar House, house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40402016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402016. Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with full-width conservatory to ground floor, two-storey return, gable-fronted addition c.1860 with canted bay window, and two-bay two-storey garden elevation to south. Pitched slate roof, moulded rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, carved bargeboards to front gable of addition with drop pendants, spiked finial to rear gable, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth-rendered plinth. Multiple pane glazed lean-to conservatory on plinth wall to front elevation. One-over-one sash windows over with margin panes. Canted-bay window to east gable of front block having six-over-six panes sashes flanked by four-over-four, six over six above. Wyatt windows to ground floor of garden elevation with six-over-six sashes above. Outbuildings to north-east of house. Gate lodge to former south entrance. Rendered gate piers and cast-iron gates to east entrance. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumbar, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2051, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2051.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbar-20807.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbar-20807.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbar-20807.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumbar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumconnick: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumconnick.md - Drumelis: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumelis.md - Edermin: https://everytownland.com/cavan/edermin.md - Farnham: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farnham.md - Paddock: https://everytownland.com/cavan/paddock.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumbar-20807 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/drumbar-20807