Drumloaghan
Townland in the civil parish of Kildrumsherdan, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan; in Irish Droim Lócháin
- Area
- 48 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumloaghan, from 31 m² to 97,144 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Drumloaghan 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
28 Aug 2025Conditional
for a dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560512
24 Aug 2025N/a
for a dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560494
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 Drumloaghan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumloaghan.
Architectural heritage
- Ashfield Lodge, gate lodge, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Arts-and-Crafts style L-plan two-storey gabled gate lodge, built 1932, main gable to entrance drive jettied out at upper floor over canted bay window, open porch to inner corner under catslide roof, single-storey wing adjoining side gable. Pitched clay-tile roofs with clay ridge tiles and overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and plain bargeboards. Tall brick chimeystack at junction of gables with moulded cornice. First floor hung with clay tiles bellcast above tripartite first-floor window in front gable. Upper part of side gable and rear gables half-timbered. Two bipartite casement windows flanking sculpted stone cartouche of the Clements family bearings to form horizontal band to first floor of side gable. Bipartite casement window to upper level of rear gable. Ground floor of squared roughly coursed rubble limestone with rock-faced quoins. Canted timber bay window at ground level of main gable with tripartite front, cornice, and frieze over multiple-pane casements with moulded transom division and cut-limestone sill. Smaller casement windows to ground floor having red brick dressings and chamfered limestone sills. Timber posts and beams to porch, recessed timber front door having four panels to lower half of door and glazed upper section.
- Ashfield Lodge, worker's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Pictureque-style three-bay two-storey former estate gardener’s lodge, built c.1880, with off-centre gable rising from eaves and single-storey porch with roof extending to side over external canopy. Extended rear elevation under catslide roof. Now in use as private house. Pitched slated roof, crested red clay ridge tiles, tall brick chimneystacks, overhanging eaves with plain barge boards, hipped end to roof over open part of porch, replacement rainwater goods carried on brackets. Rendered walls with painted brick to corners and porch, exposed rubble-stone walls to front gable extending down to eaves of porch roof. Replacement windows with stone sills and brick flat-arch heads. Replacement timber sheeted door. Porch overhang supported on timber uprights on stone bases. Walled garden attached to rear.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumloaghan.
- 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 Drumloaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumloaghan · Droim Lócháin
- Area
- 479,733 m² (47.97 ha, 118.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Electoral division
- Ashfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ashfield electoral division: 414 people in 135 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabragh, Claragh, Corballyquill, Drumhirk, Drummury, Tonaghbane
- Placenames
- Drumloaghan 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.