Drumcanon

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcanon, from 107 m² to 96,886 m² (9.69 ha, 23.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drumcanon 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.

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  for a ten-year planning permission for a solar energy development comprising photovoltaic solar panels on mounting frames; electrical control building and MV power station; underground electrical and communications cabling; access tracks; security fencing; pole-mounted security cameras; and all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560231

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumcanon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcanon.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcanon.

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 20 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 Drumcanon.

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 Drumcanon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drumcanon

Area

329,258 m² (32.93 ha, 81.36 acres)

Civil parish

Kildallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Diamond, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Diamond electoral division: 151 people in 58 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bocade Glebe, Claraghpottle Glebe, Drumcartagh or Diamondhill, Druminiskill, Keilagh

Placenames

Drumcanon 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.