Drumagolan

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumagolan, from 1,417 m² to 170,080 m² (17.01 ha, 42.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Drumagolan 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.

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  for development consisting of a proposed dormer style dwelling, proprietary effluent treatment system, entrance walls and piers and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23231

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half dwelling and detached domestic garage and form a new entrance from existing laneway, together with works to roadside boundary opposite junction with public road and laneway to facilitate achievement of minimum visibility distances, install waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18274

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct 1 no. pig house and extensions to 2 no. existing pig houses together with all ancillary structures and associated site works on the site of existing pig farm. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licencing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17333

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 Drumagolan.

Recorded monuments

• CV033-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 48m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse. Bank has been levelled from ESE-SSE and a laneway skirts its external face from SSW-W. Fosse identifiable only from N-ENE. Original entrance probably at SE. A small pile of stones of unknown significance lies inside the bank at SW. 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

• CV033-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) enclosed by a wide and low earthen bank and a broad but shallow fosse. Original entrance not positively identifiable but may have been at NE. Site has been planted with coniferous trees. 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

• CV033-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised oval area (int. dims. c. 35m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with intermediate narrow, shallow fosse. Outer bank and fosse not identifiable from SSW-W-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

• CV033-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated just S of the summit of a high drumlin hill. An earlier report (OPW 1969) described a roughly circular area enclosed by very slight traces of a fosse and scarp. Original entrance was not recognisable. 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

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

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 Drumagolan.

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

Name

Drumagolan

Area

2,087,725 m² (208.77 ha, 515.89 acres)

Civil parish

Killinkere, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornaslieve, Corraneden, Drumgora, Killyduff, Lateaster, Lisgrea, Lissacapple, Lissannymore, Murmod, Stramaquerty

Placenames

Drumagolan 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.