Drumhillagh

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhillagh, from 1,125 m² to 64,878 m² (6.49 ha, 16.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Drumhillagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumhillagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumhillagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV019-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 28.4m NNW-SSE; 27m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse which has been much modified for drainage purposes. Outside the fosse from S-W-N is a low earthen bank, almost certainly modern. From ESE-S-SW the perimeter has been levelled. An earlier description (OPW 1968) suggests that the original entrance may have been at SE. 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

• CV019-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on all OS eds. Situated on the summit of a drumlin hill. Davies (ITA Survey1942)) described a raised circular area (int. diam. c.28m) enclosed by a low earthen bank. 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

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumhillagh, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumhillagh

Area

514,739 m² (51.47 ha, 127.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Killashandra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,092 people lived in 438 households in the Killashandra electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghullaghy, Ardarragh, Coragh Glebe, Creenagh Glebe, Drumgerd, Drumroosk

Placenames

Drumhillagh 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.