Drumkerril

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumkerril, from 432 m² to 66,465 m² (6.65 ha, 16.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Drumkerril 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.

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  TO RETAIN 1. ALTERATIONS TO PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING 2. CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE 3. ALTERATIONS TO SITE LAYOUT PLAN, AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THAT OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO: 041385

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560045

• 4 Dec 2019Conditional

  for a single storey dwelling, detached garage and carport, effluent treatment system, percolation, new entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19482

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 Drumkerril.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumkerril.

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880. Circular banded shaft, wider fluted head with gadrooned domed cap and spike pinnacle. Spout with raised rim and projecting bucket lip, cow-tailed handle pivoted on lug projecting from one side of head. Secured on concrete slab with metal railing to two sides.

• Drumkerril National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey school, built 1886, with lower gable-fronted porch to northern bay, and three graduated windows to south gable. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered brick chimneytack to north gable with chamfered coping, exposed timber rafters to eaves, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render over rubble stone walls, smooth ruled-and-lined render to south gable. Chamfered stone plaque to porch gable with inscription ‘DRUMKERL / NATIONAL SCHOOL / 1886'. Window openings with stone sills, pair of vent openings to north gable flanking chimneystack. Six-over-six timber casement windows to west and east elevations with tilting upper section for ventilation having internal metal restrainers. Multiple pane fixed timber windows to south gable. Lath-and-plaster ceiling to interior, rendered walls with timber sheeted dado, timber window boards, suspended timber floor, cast-iron stove and flue to north end with metal guard rail, metal coat hooks in porch. Timber benches and teachers desk surviving. Rubble stone boundary wall. Rubble stone separating wall to rear yard straddled at end by single-storey rubble stone toilet structure, having single-pitched corrugated-iron roof and seperate male and female entrances on either side of separating wall.

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 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 Drumkerril.

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

Name

Drumkerril · Droim Choirill

Area

267,947 m² (26.79 ha, 66.21 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlane, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Lower

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 404 people in 148 households; 87% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncose, Drummullagh, Drumnoose, Feugh (Bishops) or Drumalla, Glasstown or Port, Tonyarraher

Placenames

Drumkerril 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.