Drumconra or Lowforge

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumconra or Lowforge, from 1,062 m² to 88,692 m² (8.87 ha, 21.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 May 2026Conditional

  for industrial extension to existing steel manufacturing & assembly facility approved under planning reference no. 21620 consisting of a 5 bay portal frame building together with demolition of existing lean-to storage shed, connection to existing services and associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660268

• 13 Oct 2021Conditional

  to retain the change of use of 4 no. bays from agricultural workshops/storage to steel manufacturing & assembly of products and connect to all associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 21620

• 12 Jun 2020N/a

  for change of use of the following: (1) Change of use from existing agricultural machinery store (Two Bays) to a dismantling area for Vehicles/machines, (2) Change of use from maintenance workshop (1 Bay) to area for Tractor Repairs and change of use from machinery store (1 Bay) to area for Car Dismantling, (3) Construct new concrete apron for un-loading area for machines/vehicles awaiting dismantling, (4) extend concrete roadway with all aprons falling to oil/water separator unit and connect to existing storm water, (5) construct waste oils collection area which will be connected to all dismantling and workshop areas & (6) construct a hardcore area for the storage of de-polluted Vehicles/Machines and Parts, all to connect to existing associated services

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20218

• 11 Jun 2019Refused

  to construct a concrete apron to dismantle machinery/vehicles, waste oils collection area, with a lean to roof from existing machinery workshop, a compound to store dismantled goods, all to connect to existing associated services. Significant further information and revised plans have been received

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19229

• 14 Mar 2017Conditional

  to extend 7 no. existing mushroom houses by 10m in length, construct underground waste wash tank with machinery storage shed over, extend concrete aprons and all associated site works at Swanlinbar Mushrooms

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1791

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 Drumconra or Lowforge.

Recorded monuments

• CV007-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.5m) enclosed by a denuded inner earthen bank, a V-shaped fosse, outside of which is a possible berm enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, and a narrow external fosse. Breaks in external bank at SSE and WNW. No corresponding breaks in inner bank to indicate causewayed entrance. (CUCAP ALQ 19; ALQ 20). 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

• CV007-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 33.2m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a wide fosse. NE half of site has been totally levelled (OPW 1988). Original entrance not recognisable. 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 Drumconra or Lowforge.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumconra or Lowforge, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumconra or Lowforge.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumconra or Lowforge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drumconra or Lowforge

Area

770,574 m² (77.06 ha, 190.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kinawley, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Swanlinbar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

381 people lived in 163 households in the Swanlinbar electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagran, Furnaceland, Hawkswood, Uragh

Placenames

Drumconra or Lowforge 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.