Drumcor
Townland in the civil parish of Drumlumman, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 151.6 ha
- 375 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 3,981 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcor, from 21 m² to 162,060 m² (16.21 ha, 40.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Drumcor 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
for alterations to the existing dwelling, including: Widening of the existing ground-floor window openings to the living room and playroom on the front (south western) elevation, with each opening replaced by 3 no. vertically emphasised windows; Alterations to the front porch area, including widening and increasing height of the front door opening and replacement of the existing projecting hipped-roof porch with a decorative flat-roofed entrance surround; Replacement of the existing single windows to 2 no. first-floor front bedrooms with 2 no. vertically emphasised windows to each bedroom; Replacement of the existing first-floor landing window with a narrower vertically emphasised window; Replacement of the existing roughcast/dash external finish with a smooth plaster finish; Construction of a domestic garage; and Connection to existing services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660494
16 Jun 2021Conditional
erect fully serviced dormer style dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21360
9 Jun 2021Conditional
to erect fully serviced dormer style dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21348
30 Apr 2019Conditional
to demolish part of, erect new two storey extension to rear of, and erect new single storey extension to side of existing two storey dwelling, in addition to new waste water treatment facilities and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19157
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 Drumcor.
Recorded monuments
- CV031-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 50.7m NW-SE; c.43m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a very substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. Modern laneway at the outer lip of the fosse from S-W. Break in bank at SSE with accompanying causeway represents original entrance. Densely overgrown with vegetation. 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 Drumcor.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Drumcor.
- 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 Drumcor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcor
- Area
- 1,516,327 m² (151.63 ha, 374.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlumman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintemple electoral division: 431 people in 147 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballytrust Lower, Drumhawnagh, Drumhawragh, Killydoon, Legwee
- Placenames
- Drumcor 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.