Drumlion

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlion, from 152 m² to 97,615 m² (9.76 ha, 24.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Drumlion 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.

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  to erect two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, alterations to existing plans & elevations and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560261

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 Drumlion.

Recorded monuments

• CV020-038 Sweathouse
  Description

  Not marked on 1836 or 1876 eds. Situated in a small valley, 30m SW of a stream. The site has been quarried away. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) recorded that the site was once occupied by an extensive brickworks within which was a small vaulted building. He described the building as being of 18th or early 19th-century style. No visible remains at ground level. 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

• Gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1840, recent extension to avenue elevation. Hipped slate roof. Ashlar walls with central gabled breakfront entrance bay having a skewtable returned to form an open pediment.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2051 (ZIP).

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

Name

Drumlion

Area

345,849 m² (34.58 ha, 85.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Killykeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killykeen electoral division: 646 people in 215 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coras Point, Drumcon, Kilmore Lower, Kilmore Upper, Paddock, Tonymore

Placenames

Drumlion 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.