# Drumhecknagh, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 574,693 m² (57.47 ha, 142.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,957 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/kilmore.md - Barony: Loughtee Upper - Electoral division: Killykeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 646 people lived in 215 households in the Killykeen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5130 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20911 - Centre: latitude 53.961261, longitude -7.397294 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhecknagh, from 423 m² to 111,434 m² (11.14 ha, 27.54 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 466888: 111,434 m² (11.14 ha, 27.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/466888.md - Parcel 435441: 105,350 m² (10.54 ha, 26.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435441.md - Parcel 443705: 57,881 m² (5.79 ha, 14.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443705.md - Parcel 3629135: 55,286 m² (5.53 ha, 13.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3629135.md - Parcel 488221: 54,600 m² (5.46 ha, 13.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488221.md - Parcel 489995: 54,174 m² (5.42 ha, 13.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/489995.md - Parcel 464625: 46,733 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/464625.md - Parcel 3830314: 21,120 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3830314.md - Parcel 3830309: 14,125 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3830309.md - Parcel 3830304: 14,037 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3830304.md - Parcel 444981: 5,719 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/444981.md - Parcel 487850: 4,352 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487850.md - Parcel 3049895: 3,957 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3049895.md - Parcel 488676: 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488676.md - Parcel 476727: 3,261 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476727.md - Parcel 5692870: 3,214 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5692870.md - Parcel 4830950: 3,192 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4830950.md - Parcel 474367: 2,680 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/474367.md - Parcel 481488: 2,114 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481488.md - Parcel 438159: 2,042 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/438159.md - Parcel 6030767: 1,307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6030767.md - Parcel 3049775: 1,232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3049775.md - Parcel 438732: 1,180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/438732.md - Parcel 436632: 646 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/436632.md - Parcel 486394: 423 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/486394.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumhecknagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 25 Oct 2023, Cavan County Council 2360241: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for alterations to existing dormer dwelling to include extensions to the north and west of the dwelling and associated site works. Permission is also being sought for the RETENTION of the upgraded wastewater treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360241/0 - 9 Jun 2021, Cavan County Council 21353: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to resume & complete construction of partially completed two storey dwelling (Pl.Ref 08/985). PERMISSION also sought to RETAIN conversion of domestic garage to living accommodation & all associated and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21353/0 - 5 Jun 2019, Cavan County Council 19214: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect fully serviced bungalow dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19214/0 - 10 Oct 2018, Cavan County Council 18413: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish existing detached domestic garage and extend and alter previously approved extension to include attached domestic garage (Pl. Ref. No. 18/97) with all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18413/0 - 7 Mar 2018, Cavan County Council 1897: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain and continue single storey extensions to the side & rear of existing dwelling, with associated alterations to elevations. Permission also sought to upgrade existing entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1897/0 - 1 Feb 2018, Cavan County Council 1839: Conditional. Permission. to construct a three bay calving shed, also construct a two bay extension to the existing cubicle shed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1839/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumhecknagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV025-050: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV025-050----. Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Known as the 'fort field' (local information). Subrectangular area (int. dims. 37m E-W; 32.2m N-S) enclosed by a low modern-looking earthen bank with the exception of E quadrant where it is bounded by a deep trench which is coterminous with the townland boundary. Situated close to the base of a drumlin ridge overlooked by rising ground. Probably the site of a rath. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumhecknagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumhecknagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumhecknagh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumhecknagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumhecknagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumhecknagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumhecknagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cauhoo: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cauhoo.md - Clonagonnell: https://everytownland.com/cavan/clonagonnell.md - Drumleny: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumleny.md - Loughaconnick: https://everytownland.com/cavan/loughaconnick.md - Tonymore: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tonymore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumhecknagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/drumhecknagh