Drumcor
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 43.9 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 4,410 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcor, from 1,135 m² to 168,141 m² (16.81 ha, 41.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
4 Jul 2025Conditional
for retention permission for (1) Retention of detached domestic garage (2) Retention of single storey extension to side of existing dwelling and (3) alterations to site layout and all ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560363
17 Dec 2021Refused
to erect a fully serviced part two storey, part storey and a half dwelling, entrance, boundary walls and piers, waste water treatment facilities, detached domestic garage and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21763
20 Dec 2017Conditional
demolish existing derelict structures and construct a part two-storey, part storey and a half dwelling, entrance, boundary walls and piers, waste water treatment facilities and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Significant further information and revised plans indicating adjustments to the entrance location have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17548
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
- Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007
Recorded monuments
- CV020-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 25.8m) enclosed by a low earthen bank modified and incorporated into the field boundary, and a fosse which survives from NW-NNE, has been replaced by a drain and trackway from NNE-SSE and infilled elsewhere. 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 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 20 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
- 438,675 m² (43.87 ha, 108.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Killykeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killykeen electoral division: 646 people in 215 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bleancup, Drumgor, Drummurry, Drumskeagh, Farranydaly, Togher or Danesfort Demesne
- 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.