Drummallaght

148 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummallaght, from 34 m² to 196,691 m² (19.67 ha, 48.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Drummallaght 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.

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the change of use of Residence to Commercial B & B with Spa to existing premises and the provision of a new entrance on the L3011 road at Fintawan

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660137

• 4 Mar 2026N/a

  for the change of use of Residence to Commercial B & B with Spa to existing premises and the provision of a new entrance on the L3011 road at Fintawan

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660094

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  to construct single storey dwelling, new entrance and associated site development works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660051

• 23 May 2025N/a

  to construct dormer dwelling, detached dormer garage, new entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation and associated site development works-SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560252

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2422

• 5 Jul 2023Conditional

  for : (1) domestic shed / store no. 1, (2) domestic store no. 2, (3) single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling (4) all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23258

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  for works within the curtilage of a protected structure - Billis Mill (RPS ref. CV0363): 1. construction of a clay hut outbuilding to serve as a plant room 2. alterations to the residential cottage consisting of a new oriel window to the side, internal partitioning and stairs and 3. all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360029

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the installation of an integrated constructed wetland with a gravel distribution bed for domestic wastewater treatment, to serve an existing residential dwelling house within the curtilage of a protected structure - Billis Mill (RPS ref. CV0363)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23104

• 24 May 2021Refused

  to retain fully serviced agricultural workshop containing office, storage, W/C facility and service area, entrance & all ancillary works. Planning PERMISSION sought to construct new septic tank and percolation area

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 21310

• 19 Aug 2020Conditional

  to erect fully serviced single storey extensions to the side and rear of existing dwelling, new front porch, with associated alterations to elevations, alterations to site layout and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20354

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19197

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  to carry out the following alterations to existing dwelling house: (1) Demolish single storey extension to rear of original dwelling house, (2) Construct new single storey extension and carry out renovation works to original dwelling house & (3) Upgrade existing septic tank to new mechanical waste water treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18282

• 24 May 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced clubrooms facilities with attic accommodation and turnstile building, connection to existing services and all ancillary and associated works, also permission sought to demolish existing dressing room building and stores. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17214

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 Drummallaght.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on the OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on SW shoulder of a drumlin hill. Site has 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

• Billis Grange, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with projecting two-storey gabled outer bays flanking recent single-storey entrance, south gable probably post 1910, two-storey return to south-west. Alterations comprising two-storey rear extension and timber conservatory to south c.2000, single-storey outbuildings to west, south-west and north, converted c.2005, forming rectangular yard to rear. Pitched slate roof with perforated clay ridge tile, rendered replacement chimneystacks with recent stepped profiles and historic clay pots to front and rear sections. Roof overhangs at eaves and gables with decorative timber trusses to gables, recent timber bargeboards, replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with channel jointed smooth quoins and smooth plinth. Two-over-two timber sash windows with stone sills. Bay windows to east gables with timber uprights at corners supporting slate roof with two-over-two timber sash windows. Windows above bays with recent pediments on brackets. Recent entrance porch with precast concrete columns, round-headed door opening with fanlight and recent timber door. Recent projection to south-east gable with timber doors flanked by precast concrete columns and balcony over. Outbuildings with replacement pitched slate roofs, altered and new openings with recent brick dressing, recent limestone sills and uPVC windows. Water channels connecting former mill race with lake in west and Nadreegeel Lough to south-west.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drummallaght

Area

2,991,030 m² (299.1 ha, 739.1 acres)

Civil parish

Killinkere, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Termon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Termon electoral division: 582 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Billis, Carrickeeshil, Coragh, Corracarrow, Drumfomina, Drummanbane, Drummanduff, Fintawan, Lackanmore, Lattoon

Placenames

Drummallaght 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.