Drumcalpin
Townland in the civil parish of Larah, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 134 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 4,103 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcalpin, from 500 m² to 135,983 m² (13.6 ha, 33.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumcalpin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Feb 2021Conditional
to (1) construct agricultural shed to incorporate bedded areas with external feed apron and (2) completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2171
29 Jul 2020Conditional
to retain (1) existing milking parlour building to eastern boundary of site boundary incorporating milking parlour area, dairy, plant room, medicine storage, drafting/cow dispersal area and external underground slatted washings storage tank, (2) retention of adjacent underground slatted slurry storage tank and full PLANNING PERMISSION is sought to (a) construct agricultural shed over existing slatted slurry storage tank subject to retention to incorporate slatted areas, cubicle accommodation, feed and link passages, (b) completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures
Retention · Cavan County Council, 20310
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumcalpin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcalpin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcalpin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 Drumcalpin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumcalpin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcalpin
- Area
- 1,340,149 m² (134.01 ha, 331.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Larah, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Electoral division
- Larah North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Larah North electoral division: 478 people in 161 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Artonagh, Carrickallen, Drumnagar, Edrans, Greaghcrottagh, Tullyunshin
- Placenames
- Drumcalpin 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.