Drumcrow

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcrow, from 296 m² to 137,256 m² (13.73 ha, 33.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drumcrow 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.

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  for a 20-year permission for quarrying and extraction of rock that will include drilling, blasting, crushing and screening along with alterations to boundaries & all associated site works. Works will also include for the provision of new settlement ponds and installation of associated site drainage infrastructure and surface water pump to proposed new settlement ponds along with provision of discharge outlet via a Klargester Interceptor. Ancillary site works to include for landscape works, planting restoration of the quarry perimeter and reprofiling of overburden as required to facilitate development of the quarry and restoration of the associated site area. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared and accompanies this application, significant further information has been received

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360027

• 10 May 2023N/a

  for a 20 year permission for quarrying and extraction of rock that will include drilling, blasting, crushing and screening along with alterations to boundaries & all associated site works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared and accompanies this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360020

• 24 Feb 2023N/a

  for a 20 year permission to complete extraction of material granted within existing quarry envelope as per previously approved planning (Ref. No. 05/1801) alterations to boundaries & all associated site works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared and accompanies this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  to extend existing quarrying facility on a site of c 10.25 hectares (existing quarry permitted under Cavan County Council Reg. Ref. 051801, 1162 and Quarry Registration No. QY7). The development will consist of the inclusion of an additional extraction of 1.04 hectares to the southeast boundary. The quarry extension is sought to a maximum depth of c. 40 metres od and will be extracted at a rate of c. 50,000 tonnes per annum. The proposed development includes all ancillary site development, areas of stockpiling, landscaping and boundary treatment works above and below ground, including the progressive restoration of the site. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19227

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 Drumcrow.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 35.3m NNW-SSE; 32.4m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse which is best preserved from NNE-S-SSW. Bank with accompanying causeway at ESE represents original entrance. A stream flows immediately N of the site, and at S there is an infilled well. 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

• CV031-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. 15.5m) enclosed by a narrow, steep-sided earthen bank and a trench, both of which look relatively modern in date. No break in bank but there is a narrow causeway crossing the trench at N. Internal area 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 Drumcrow.

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

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumcrow.

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.

No address of the register names Drumcrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drumcrow · Droim Cró

Area

576,165 m² (57.62 ha, 142.37 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Denn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Denn electoral division: 707 people in 245 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadreenagh, Ardkill More, Ardlougher, Ardvarny, Drumavaddy, Kilnacreevy

Placenames

Drumcrow 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.