Drumakeenan

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumakeenan, from 448 m² to 120,376 m² (12.04 ha, 29.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560273

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct 1 no. pig house (to provide for enhanced animal welfare standards), together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the development, significant further information received

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23262

• 16 Nov 2022Conditional

  to erect part 2 storey/ part single storey extension to side of existing dressing rooms building, connection to existing services, relocation of existing storage building within the site, demolish existing separate storage building, associated alterations to floor plans and elevations of existing dressing rooms building, alterations to car-parking layout and all associated and ancillary works at Knockroe, Redhills, Co. Cavan. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22464

• 28 Oct 2022N/a

  to construct a new single storey extension to the rear of existing montessori/pre-school childcare building, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22436

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  for change of use to an existing detached domestic garage building from ancillary domestic use, to use as a Montessori/pre-school childcare facility, together with all associated works, including new signage and connect to existing on-site wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20299

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls and piers, waste water treatment facilities, and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans indicating adjustments to the entrance location and site boundary have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18108

• 25 Jan 2017Conditional

  to alter existing pitch layout, boundary treatments and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1719

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV016-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 20.2m) enclosed by a very low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse which is only identifiable from NW-N. The site is further enclosed by modern field boundaries from N-S-NW. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV016-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An earlier report (OPW 1968) described a raised oval area (int. dims. c. 38m NW-SE; c. 28m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and fosse. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at WSW presumably marked original entrance. Site has since been levelled. 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

• Redhills Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay single-storey Garda Síochána station with projecting central porch, built c.1945, with four-bay rear elevation, combining living and administrative functions. Hipped concrete tile roof with wide overhanging eaves, pitched roof to porch. Rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Wet-dashed walls with smooth rendered plinth. Limestone sills to six-over-six timber sliding-sash windows with exposed sash boxes. Narrower four-over-four sash windows flanking porch. Round-headed arch to porch with plain rendered responds and recent timber panelled door. Set back from the road behind rubble stone boundary walls and square-profile piers.

• Redhills Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Methodist church, built c.1870, with advanced single-bay porch to front and three-bay side elevation. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Round-headed windows with plain reveals and stone sills, six-over-six timber sliding-sash windows with arced panes to upper register. Plain interior with simple historic benches. Set back from the streetline behind recent fence.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Drumakeenan.

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.

No address of the register names Drumakeenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drumakeenan · Droim Uí Chianáin

Area

537,791 m² (53.78 ha, 132.89 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Redhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Redhill electoral division: 468 people in 166 households; 85% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killoughter, Killybandrick, Knockroe, Mullanavarnoge, Redhill Demesne, Shannow Wood

Placenames

Drumakeenan 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.