Drumrat
Townland in the civil parish of Mullagh, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 57.2 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumrat, from 29 m² to 132,439 m² (13.24 ha, 32.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Drumrat 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
11 Apr 2024Conditional
to construct a domestic garage and storage to the west side of an existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2429
21 Dec 2023Conditional
to construct a single storey style dwelling, detached domestic garage, install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area and form new entrance from existing laneway together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360334
6 Dec 2023N/a
construct a single storey style dwelling, detached domestic garage, install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area and form new entrance from existing laneway together with all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360296
7 Jun 2023N/a
to construct a dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area and form new entrance from existing laneway together with all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23233
7 Jun 2023Conditional
to construct a part storey and a half/ part single storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, install proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, form new entrance from public road together, with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23234
3 Feb 2021N/a
to construct a dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, install propriety sewage treatment unit and percolation area and form new entrance from existing laneway together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2146
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 Drumrat.
Recorded monuments
- CV039-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on the W shoulder of a ridge of high ground. Not visible at ground level. 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
- CV040-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 24m) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and the remains of a fosse identifiable only from E-SSE and at N. Wide break in bank at ENE presumably represents original entrance. 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 Drumrat.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumrat.
- 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 Drumrat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Drumrat
- Area
- 572,140 m² (57.21 ha, 141.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Crossbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossbane electoral division: 677 people in 223 households; 93% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corfad, Cornaglea Lower, Cuilcagh, Raffony
- Placenames
- Drumrat 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.