Drumerkillew

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumerkillew, from 128 m² to 156,098 m² (15.61 ha, 38.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Drumerkillew 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.

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  1) To RETAIN 2 no. walled silage pits and a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tanks. 2) To construct a Slatted shed with underground slurry storage tanks, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560143

• 19 Dec 2018Refused

  to demolish existing hay shed building and erect fully serviced 2 storey dwelling with entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18540

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 Drumerkillew.

Recorded monuments

• CV022-017 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of a structure at the site now. According to the OS Memoirs for County Cavan there was a 'Giant's Grave' 40 feet(c. 12.2m) long and 12 feet (c. 3.65m) wide narrowing to 4 feet (c. 1.2m) here in the 1830s. This may have been a megalithic tomb. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 138, No. 10; OS Memoir, Kildrumsherdan parish, County Cavan) 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 Drumerkillew.

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 20 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 Drumerkillew.

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 Drumerkillew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drumerkillew

Area

2,278,364 m² (227.84 ha, 563 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Tullyvin East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullyvin East electoral division: 609 people in 171 households; 90% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnaglogh, Binbane, Bindoo, Corgreagh, Cornabeagh, Cornamucklagh, Corravoggy, Cullin, Drumhurt, Drumleague, Greaghnacross

Placenames

Drumerkillew 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.