Drummullig
Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 47.6 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 39,205 m² (3.92 ha, 9.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummullig, from 1,213 m² to 123,463 m² (12.35 ha, 30.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Drummullig 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
13 May 2026Conditional
for (A) retention of house extension (B) new percolation area and treatment system (C) alterations to site boundary and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660251
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
- CV020-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 41.1m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary, and a wide, shallow fosse, which while infilled throughout most of its course, is nonetheless traceable. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at E may represent original entrance. Modern laneway running NNE-SSW divides the internal area into two roughly equal portions. 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
- CV020-043 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 24.7m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, shallow, partly waterlogged fosse. From SW-S-SSE fosse has been scarped and faced with drystone masonry. Original entrance not definitely recognisable but was probably either at E or NW. 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 Drummullig.
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 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_2069 (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 Drummullig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drummullig
- Area
- 475,643 m² (47.56 ha, 117.53 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
- Corracreeny, Deredis Lower, Derrygid, Drummany, Rahultan
- Placenames
- Drummullig 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.