Drummonum
Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 122.5 ha
- 303 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 9,547 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummonum, from 1,324 m² to 17,771 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Drummonum 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
No planning application touches the townland of Drummonum 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
- Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummonum.
Architectural heritage
- Sandy Row, worker's house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Terrace of four three-bay single-storey former workers’ houses, built c.1830, with recent extension to rear of eastern house. Now in use as private houses. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves to gable supported by timber battens, small skylight to rear pitch of roofs, rendered red brick chimneystacks, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to squared rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills. Multiple pane timber casement windows with fixed double-pane overlight to front elevation, fixed four-pane windows to gable and rear elevation. uPVC windows to eastern two houses. Sheeted timber doors to western two houses. Door to one of eastern two houses blocked, other replaced uPVC door. Single cast-iron gate with fleur-de-lis finial provides access to path to front of houses.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2050 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drummonum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummonum
- Area
- 1,224,730 m² (122.47 ha, 302.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Urney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Cavan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cavan Rural electoral division: 8,747 people in 2,931 households; 59% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Deredis Upper, Derryheen, Drumlaunaght, Drummullan, Farnham, Killygowan, Paddock
- Placenames
- Drummonum 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.