Drummury

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummury, from 43 m² to 224,444 m² (22.44 ha, 55.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drummury 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.

• 2 Jul 2026N/a

  to decommission/complete the decommissioning of 1 No. existing above ground manure storage tank, and, to construct 1 No. replacement manure storage tank, together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above development. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660378

• 19 Jun 2026Conditional

  to demolish the existing derelict dwelling and barn, and the construction of a replacement two storey dwelling house, domestic detached garage, incorporating the existing site vehicular entrance and driveway, install proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2623

• 27 May 2026N/a

  to decommission 1 No. existing above ground manure storage tank, and, to construct 1 No. replacement manure storage tank, together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above development 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 (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660287

• 21 May 2026N/a

  to decommission 1 No. existing above ground manure storage tank, and, to construct 1 No. replacement manure storage tank, together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660274

• 3 Dec 2019Conditional

  to retain the as built position of the dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank& percolation area and PLANNING PERMISSION to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, upgrade existing septic tank to sewerage treatment unit & percolation area, alterations to site boundaries and all ancillary site works from that previously granted under planning ref no. 85/15833

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19488

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 Drummury.

Recorded monuments

• CV017-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated a short distance from the summit of a drumlin hill. An earlier report (OPW 1969) described a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with wide, deep, waterlogged intervening fosse. Original entrance may have been at NE. Levelled in the early 1960s leaving nothing 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

• CV017-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Depicted on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. as a large oval-shaped enclosure (int. dims. c. 65m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE), with the designation 'Fort', situated within a tree plantation. The enclosing elements comprising a substantial earthen bank and a fosse survive only from N-E. Elsewhere both features have been much modified and incorporated into the boundary of the tree plantation. Original entrance not recognisable. The internal area has been planted with trees and is heavily overgrown with vegetation. 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

• St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic-Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1863, with five-bay nave, chancel to west, rectangular-plan three-stage entrance bell tower to north-west end of nave, porch to south elevation, sacristies flanking chancel. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, gable copings with roll-mould apex and flush gablets as kneelers, pyramidal slate roof to bell tower with scalloped slates and metal cross finial, and replacement rainwater goods. Hipped slated roofs to sacristies, porch on south elevation with a cross finial on gable. Random-coursed sandstone walls with cut yellow sandstone quoins. Yellow sandstone surrounds to lancet windows with block-and-start jambs and yellow polychromatic brick relieving arches over. Single lancets to the nave, with paired lancets in the eastern bay, and a pair of tall lancets to west gable. Four short lancets in wide east gable of chancel with plate tracery rose window over central pair and glazed quatrefoils over lower outer lights. Pointed arch windows to sides of south porch. Rock-faced upper stage of tower with recessed open pointed belfry arches with sloped sill flanked on side faces of belfry by weathered buttresses over moulded string course. Plain lower stages without divisions having trefoil window to second stage with brick relieving arch, pointed arch door opening to ground stage with timber sheeted doors. Timber sheeted doors also to porch on south elevation and to sacristy doors. Interior with exposed timber truss roof having king posts and panelled coffers. Low relief hood moulds to lancet windows. String course at sill height runs around interior. Lower single-bay chancel behind a pointed chancel arch with half-octagonal pier responds. Freestanding historic altar and reredos behind which are two tiers of stained glass windows with row of four lancets at triforium level, over this a rose window with four-centred rear-arch and flanked by quatrefoils with similar smaller rear arches. Timber gallery at west end over entrance porches. Timber pews. Recent rubble-stone boundary wall to roadside to north with ashlar piers and metal gates.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummury.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drummury with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Drummury

Area

833,113 m² (83.31 ha, 205.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

414 people lived in 135 households in the Ashfield electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corick, Drumhirk, Drumloaghan, Killycreeny, Raludan, Tonaghbane

Placenames

Drummury 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.