Drumbrade

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbrade, from 102 m² to 72,282 m² (7.23 ha, 17.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Drumbrade 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.

• 9 Sept 2026N/a

  for the replacement of existing septic tank and soakaway serving existing dwelling house with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660517

• 4 Aug 2026N/a

  to RETAIN 2 No as constructed ancillary agricultural buildings and also RETAIN and complete extensions and alterations to previously approved slatted shed re 07/786 incorporating an extension of existing underground slatted tanks, extension of existing building to include milking parlour and increased covered area together with all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2632

• 22 Apr 2026Conditional

  for 1. The redevelopment of existing part two-storey, part dormer dwelling house to include internal alterations, demolition of existing balcony, revisions to elevations comprising amendments to location and dimensions of window and door openings, revised external wall finishes and revised roof profiles; 2. Construction of a single storey domestic garage; 3. Replacement of existing septic tank and soakaway with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and purpose built percolation area and 4. Construction of entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660198

• 18 Oct 2019Conditional

  to extend and carry out alterations to existing dwelling, incorporating porch extension, extend dormer element to two-storey and new roof construction to remainder, develop attic space for study, alterations to elevations, detached domestic garage and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19400

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 Drumbrade.

Recorded monuments

• CV018-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.5m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a narrow, deep, partly waterlogged fosse which is well preserved from ENE-S-WSW and largely infilled elsewhere. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded that the original entrance was at SE. 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 Drumbrade.

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 Drumbrade.

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

Name

Drumbrade · Droim Brád

Area

986,801 m² (98.68 ha, 243.84 acres)

Civil parish

Drumgoon, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Cootehill Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cootehill Rural electoral division: 1,138 people in 412 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baraghy, Boagh, Drumod (Co. Monaghan), Lisnaclea, Lisnagoon

Placenames

Drumbrade 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.