# Drummora Great, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,130,450 m² (113.05 ha, 279.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,384 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmore, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/kilmore.md - Barony: Loughtee Upper - Electoral division: Crossdoney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 610 people lived in 210 households in the Crossdoney electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4782 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20990 - Centre: latitude 53.96455, longitude -7.463876 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummora Great, from 115 m² to 283,186 m² (28.32 ha, 69.98 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 459158: 283,186 m² (28.32 ha, 69.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459158.md - Parcel 459447: 177,497 m² (17.75 ha, 43.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459447.md - Parcel 459160: 114,528 m² (11.45 ha, 28.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459160.md - Parcel 459157: 97,628 m² (9.76 ha, 24.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459157.md - Parcel 456774: 87,551 m² (8.76 ha, 21.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456774.md - Parcel 456776: 49,612 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456776.md - Parcel 459444: 47,988 m² (4.8 ha, 11.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459444.md - Parcel 456777: 45,938 m² (4.59 ha, 11.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456777.md - Parcel 456778: 45,127 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456778.md - Parcel 456779: 43,708 m² (4.37 ha, 10.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/456779.md - Parcel 459194: 36,003 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459194.md - Parcel 477800: 14,694 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477800.md - Parcel 459446: 10,048 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459446.md - Parcel 459161: 7,301 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459161.md - Parcel 3085657: 3,521 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3085657.md - Parcel 486392: 3,324 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486392.md - Parcel 4890793: 3,179 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4890793.md - Parcel 435423: 3,175 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/435423.md - Parcel 459164: 2,842 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459164.md - Parcel 2995962: 2,835 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995962.md - Parcel 481487: 2,673 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481487.md - Parcel 459166: 2,668 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459166.md - Parcel 450651: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450651.md - Parcel 459169: 2,397 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459169.md - Parcel 457146: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/457146.md - Parcel 2995963: 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995963.md - Parcel 459433: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/459433.md - Parcel 487849: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487849.md - Parcel 2995965: 2,179 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995965.md - Parcel 2995964: 1,832 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2995964.md - Parcel 456775: 1,786 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/456775.md - Parcel 433678: 1,719 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/433678.md - Parcel 456780: 1,719 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/456780.md - Parcel 459432: 1,501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/459432.md - Parcel 456984: 1,389 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/456984.md - Parcel 476655: 1,361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/476655.md - Parcel 459445: 1,342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/459445.md - Parcel 459159: 1,319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/459159.md - Parcel 3068072: 1,308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3068072.md - Parcel 2423912: 1,293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2423912.md - Parcel 456986: 1,168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/456986.md - Parcel 445955: 1,053 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/445955.md - Parcel 483067: 941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/483067.md - Parcel 489871: 785 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/489871.md - Parcel 483172: 757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/483172.md - Parcel 445035: 466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/445035.md - Parcel 486848: 311 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/486848.md - Parcel 476726: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/476726.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drummora Great in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 4 Nov 2025, Cavan County Council 2560656: Conditional. Retention. for the following works operating as a car dealership (motor sales), including: A) (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) On office - removal of high gable wall in line with slope of roof, and facing with natural stone. (iv) On store - removal of pedestrian door, and decorative ornaments on capping, increase in pitch of lean-to roof, incorporating translucent sheeting; (v) removal of front boundary wall and gate with construction of pier and relocation of farm gate. (vi) metal structure, used as a valeting area; (v) an open vehicle storage/sales yard; (vi) associated signage, hardstanding and ancillary site works; B) Retention permission also sought for alterations to existing derelict dwelling house to include; (i) increase in roof pitch including 3 no. roof lights to front and rear respectively, (ii) exposing of existing natural stone on external walls, (iii) metal sheeting on gable walls, (iv) removal of gable windows at both gables, addition of flue on rear elevation (v) widening of entrance gates, removing blockwork pillars either side, (vi) erection of separation fence at northwest of dwelling, (vii) window replacing door on northwest rear elevation, (viii) roof fitted to store attached to northeast gable of dwelling, (ix) and associated site works and hard surfaces. C (i) With use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply for the the office and dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560656/0 - 15 Oct 2025, Cavan County Council 2560618: N/a. Permission. for PERMISSION for the following works operating as a car dealership (motor sales), including: A) (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) On office - removal of high gable wall in line with slope of roof, and facing with natural stone. (iv) On store - removal of pedestrian door, and decorative ornaments on capping, increase in pitch of lean-to roof, incorporating translucent sheeting; (v) removal of front boundary wall and gate with construction of pier and relocation of farm gate. (vi) metal structure, used as a valeting area; (v) an open vehicle storage/sales yard; (vi) associated signage, hardstanding and ancillary site works; B) RETENTION permission also sought for alterations to existing derelict dwelling house to include; (i) increase in roof pitch including 3 no. roof lights to front and rear respectively, (ii) exposing of existing natural stone on external walls, (iii) metal sheeting on gable walls, (iv) removal of gable windows at both gables, addition of flue on rear elevation (v) widening of entrance gates, removing blockwork pillars either side, (vi) erection of separation fence at northwest of dwelling, (vii) window replacing door on northwest rear elevation, (viii) roof fitted to store attached to northeast gable of dwelling, (ix) and associated site works and hard surfaces. C) (i) With use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply for the the office and dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560618/0 - 1 Sept 2025, Cavan County Council 2560516: N/a. Retention. for the retention of: (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) a valeting area; (iv) an open vehicle storage yard; (v) associated hardstanding, signage, and all ancillary site works; and (vi) use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560516/0 - 28 Aug 2025, Cavan County Council 2560513: N/a. Retention. for (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) a valeting area; (iv) an open vehicle storage yard; (v) associated hardstanding, signage, and all ancillary site works; and (vi) use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560513/0 - 21 Aug 2025, Cavan County Council 2560487: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the demolition of existing extensions to front, side and rear of existing dwelling and demolition of existing shed. Erection of new part 2 storey, part single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling with associated alterations to elevations, erection of new detached domestic garage and shed. Alterations to site boundary and all ancillary site works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560487/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC, site code 000007, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000007 - Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA, site code 004049, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004049 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs, site code 000007 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV025-054: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV025-054----. Although site has been levelled, the outline of the perimeter is still identifiable enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 43m). From NW-NNW the perimeter has been extensively modified and incorporated into field boundary. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bellahillan Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40402502, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CV®no=40402502. Four-arch stone road bridge, built c.1780, over River Erne, having semi-circular arches and flat deck. Squared stone blocks to abutments and piers with V-cutwaters. Roughly squared rubble stone barrels with roughly cut thin stone voussoirs to arch rings. Squared rubble stone spandrels and parapet walls with large roughly squared coping blocks. Rubble stone wing walls. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drummora Great, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummora Great. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummora-great.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummora-great.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummora-great.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drummora Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/annagh-20080.md - Clonloskan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/clonloskan.md - Drummora Little: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummora-little.md - Farranseer: https://everytownland.com/cavan/farranseer.md - Legaland: https://everytownland.com/cavan/legaland.md - Marahill: https://everytownland.com/cavan/marahill-21582.md - Monnery Lower: https://everytownland.com/cavan/monnery-lower.md - Slanore: https://everytownland.com/cavan/slanore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drummora-great - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/drummora-great