# Drumcavan, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ruan, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 935,355 m² (93.54 ha, 231.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,855 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ruan, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/ruan.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Ruan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 767 people lived in 276 households in the Ruan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6074 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31087 - Centre: latitude 52.923351, longitude -9.041925 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcavan, from 416 m² to 409,378 m² (40.94 ha, 101.16 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2610431: 409,378 m² (40.94 ha, 101.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2610431.md - Parcel 1512635: 235,385 m² (23.54 ha, 58.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512635.md - Parcel 1509314: 101,478 m² (10.15 ha, 25.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1509314.md - Parcel 1517699: 93,265 m² (9.33 ha, 23.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517699.md - Parcel 1518887: 13,199 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518887.md - Parcel 5803387: 12,905 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5803387.md - Parcel 5883517: 11,022 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5883517.md - Parcel 1518650: 10,065 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518650.md - Parcel 2610432: 6,866 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2610432.md - Parcel 2911034: 3,966 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2911034.md - Parcel 1488028: 3,704 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1488028.md - Parcel 1505599: 2,855 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505599.md - Parcel 1481039: 2,593 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481039.md - Parcel 3992012: 2,295 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3992012.md - Parcel 1456398: 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456398.md - Parcel 1458635: 2,091 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458635.md - Parcel 1473851: 1,778 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473851.md - Parcel 1499206: 1,765 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499206.md - Parcel 1439942: 1,739 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439942.md - Parcel 1489568: 1,719 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489568.md - Parcel 1497796: 1,600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1497796.md - Parcel 1477013: 794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477013.md - Parcel 1477762: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477762.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumcavan 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) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Nov 2025, Clare County Council 25364: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/25364/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballycullinan, Old Domestic Building SAC, site code 002246, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002246 - Special Area of Conservation: Ballycullinan Lake SAC, site code 000016, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000016 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballycullinan Lake, site code 000016 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL025-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-029----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcavan. ## 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 Drumcavan, about 1 in 5 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 Drumcavan. - 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/clare/drumcavan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/drumcavan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/drumcavan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumcavan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycullinan: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballycullinan.md - Cloona: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloona.md - Cloonfeaghra: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfeaghra.md - Cooga: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooga-30789.md - Cregmoher: https://everytownland.com/clare/cregmoher.md - Gregmoher: https://everytownland.com/clare/gregmoher.md - Kilkee West: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilkee-west.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeen-31487.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/clare/drumcavan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/drumcavan