Drumgora
Townland in the civil parish of Lavey, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 71.8 ha
- 177 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 5,396 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgora, from 52 m² to 110,702 m² (11.07 ha, 27.36 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 Drumgora 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
29 Oct 2025Conditional
for retention of existing single storey pitched roof extension to the south west side of the existing dwelling and retention of single storey, pitched roof detached garage to the north east boundary
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560650
20 Oct 2025N/a
for the retention of existing single storey pitched roof extension to the south west side of the existing dwelling and retention of single storey, pitched roof detached garage to the north east boundary
Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560631
19 Apr 2023Conditional
construct all weather pitch, fencing, netting, high level lighting, perimeter walking track and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23175
15 Feb 2017Conditional
to construct fully serviced two story dwelling house, with entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works. Permission previously granted on this site (Pl. Ref. 14/338)
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1751
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 Drumgora.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumgora.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgora.
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 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 Drumgora.
- 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 Drumgora with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumgora
- Area
- 717,913 m² (71.79 ha, 177.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lavey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Waterloo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Waterloo electoral division: 780 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadreenagh, Beaghy, Carricknaveddan, Killygrogan, Knocknagillagh, Mullymagowan
- Placenames
- Drumgora 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.