Drumlougher
Townland in the civil parish of Templeport, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 136.8 ha
- 338 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 9,019 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlougher, from 114 m² to 132,071 m² (13.21 ha, 32.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Drumlougher 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
12 Dec 2025Conditional
for change of use and refurbishment of existing disused schoolhouse to residential dwelling, provision of effluent treatment system & percolation, alterations to existing entrance and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560736
26 Nov 2025N/a
for change of use and refurbishment of existing disused schoolhouse to residential dwelling, provision of effluent treatment system & percolation, alterations to existing entrance and associated site development works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560704
23 May 2025Conditional
to erect 3 no. single storey residential units for tourism accommodation, new entrance, service road, car parking, waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping and associated site works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560255
22 May 2025N/a
to erect 3 no. single storey residential units for tourism accommodation, new entrance, service road, car parking, waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560250
29 Feb 2024N/a
for the indefinite retention of an attic conversion in existing dwelling including 1 No. dormer window to front elevation, 1 No. casement window to both side elevations and 3 No. rooflights to rear elevation
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460075
5 Oct 2020Conditional
to construct two-storey dwelling, detached garage, new entrance, drive, effluent treatment system, percolation, landscaping and site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20434
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 Drumlougher.
Recorded monuments
- CV009-030 Well
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumlougher.
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 10 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumlougher.
- 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 Drumlougher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumlougher
- Area
- 1,368,418 m² (136.84 ha, 338.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeport, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullyhaw
- Electoral division
- Templeport, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellaleenan, Culliagh, Gortnacargy, Owengallees, Stranadarragh, Teeboy
- Placenames
- Drumlougher 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.