Drummuck
Townland in the civil parish of Larah, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 95.2 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,752 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummuck, from 33 m² to 109,577 m² (10.96 ha, 27.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Drummuck 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
22 Apr 2026Conditional
for a single storey 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, 2660201
17 Dec 2025Conditional
for alterations to floor plans and elevations of previous approved planning reference 23/60098 and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560744
15 Jul 2023Conditional
for a single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, demolition of existing extension, alterations to plans and elevations of existing dwelling, alterations to site boundaries, sewerage treatment facilities and all associated and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360098
7 Sept 2022Conditional
for (1) RETENTION Permission for as constructed alterations to unfinished dwelling house to include additional basement level comprising of domestic garage (previous approval granted under 04/2257); and (2) Planning PERMISSION to complete unfinished dwelling house and associated site development works including site entrance works, and installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22367
7 Oct 2019Conditional
EXTENSION OF TIME 15/258 to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 19382
17 Jul 2017Conditional
construct slatted shed and loose housing with underground slurry storage, dungstead, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17314
10 Jul 2017Conditional
construct two and a half storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area, revisions to existing road entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17313
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 Drummuck.
Recorded monuments
- CV026-033001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 29.1m) enclosed by two earthen banks with wide, deep intermediate fosse. The inner bank is very substantial while the outer bank is clearly modern. Break in inner bank with accompanying causeway at SE represents original entrance. Possible souterrain within internal area (CV026-033002-). 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
- CV026-033002 Souterrain
Description
At Drummuck rath (CV026-033001-). Inside the bank at S is a Y-shaped depression which probably marks the site of a souterrain. Local tradition of a tunnel here. 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
- CV026-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised almost circular area (int. diam. 30.8m N-S) enclosed by a partly modernised, slight earthen bank and an almost totally infilled fosse. Break in bank at S probably represents original entrance. W of the centre of the internal area is a subrectangular depression (dims. 8m E-W; 3.2m N-S; D 0.3m) of unknown significance. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drummuck.
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 high, 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 Drummuck.
- 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 Drummuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummuck
- Area
- 952,350 m² (95.24 ha, 235.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Larah, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Stradone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Stradone electoral division: 855 people in 294 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardardagh, Corfad, Kilnacreevy, Mullymagowan, Tirlahode Lower
- Placenames
- Drummuck 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.