# Drumconra or Lowforge, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kinawley, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 770,574 m² (77.06 ha, 190.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,364 m² (4.04 ha, 9.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M4 White Lands, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kinawley, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/kinawley.md - Barony: Tullyhaw - Electoral division: Swanlinbar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4089 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20856 - Centre: latitude 54.199701, longitude -7.693988 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumconra or Lowforge, from 1,062 m² to 88,692 m² (8.87 ha, 21.92 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 435939: 88,692 m² (8.87 ha, 21.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435939.md - Parcel 435749: 79,396 m² (7.94 ha, 19.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435749.md - Parcel 483475: 74,590 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483475.md - Parcel 435931: 71,037 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435931.md - Parcel 435945: 66,887 m² (6.69 ha, 16.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435945.md - Parcel 435942: 66,269 m² (6.63 ha, 16.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435942.md - Parcel 482506: 63,639 m² (6.36 ha, 15.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/482506.md - Parcel 467261: 54,159 m² (5.42 ha, 13.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/467261.md - Parcel 483465: 49,588 m² (4.96 ha, 12.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483465.md - Parcel 434183: 42,155 m² (4.22 ha, 10.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434183.md - Parcel 435944: 38,574 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435944.md - Parcel 3184831: 35,349 m² (3.53 ha, 8.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3184831.md - Parcel 434044: 10,782 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/434044.md - Parcel 435943: 8,535 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435943.md - Parcel 2995445: 7,115 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995445.md - Parcel 483474: 4,404 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/483474.md - Parcel 4856576: 4,066 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856576.md - Parcel 2531950: 3,042 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2531950.md - Parcel 435940: 1,757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/435940.md - Parcel 436478: 1,062 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/436478.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M4 White Lands (Built up area): Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.cavancoco.ie/media/y0ka04fz/chapter-14_.pdf#page=11 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 20 May 2026, Cavan County Council 2660268: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660268/0 - 13 Oct 2021, Cavan County Council 21620: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21620/0 - 12 Jun 2020, Cavan County Council 20218: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20218/0 - 11 Jun 2019, Cavan County Council 19229: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19229/0 - 14 Mar 2017, Cavan County Council 1791: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1791/0 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 Drumconra or Lowforge. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV007-010: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV007-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV007-011----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumconra or Lowforge. ## 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 Drumconra or Lowforge, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/drumconra-or-lowforge.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumconra-or-lowforge.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumconra-or-lowforge.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cornagran: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cornagran-20492.md - Furnaceland: https://everytownland.com/cavan/furnaceland.md - Hawkswood: https://everytownland.com/cavan/hawkswood.md - Uragh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/uragh-21974.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/drumconra-or-lowforge - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/drumconra-or-lowforge