Drumlon

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlon, from 80 m² to 280,725 m² (28.07 ha, 69.37 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumlon 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumlon in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumlon.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised almost circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank and wide fosse which has been partially recut and is now waterlogged. Spoil from this excavation forms a modern counterscarp bank at the outer lip of the fosse. Original entrance at E. 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

• CV028-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a shelf at the base of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin and at the crest of an E-facing slope down to Drumlon Lough. A circular grass-covered area (ext. diam. c. 35m) that is probably defined by a wide earthen bank (Wth c. 5m) is visible in low winter sunlight on Google Earth (17/01/2020). It is also visible on OSI images (2000), and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached view from Google Earth (17/01/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 March 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumlon.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumlon.

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

Name

Drumlon

Area

839,805 m² (83.98 ha, 207.52 acres)

Civil parish

Bailieborough, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Bailieborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bailieborough electoral division: 4,230 people in 1,546 households; 73% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrynure, Gartnaneane, Lisball, Lisgar

Placenames

Drumlon 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.