Drumhillagh North

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhillagh North, from 73 m² to 187,250 m² (18.73 ha, 46.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Drumhillagh North 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks and extend existing slatted shed and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660157

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  for a single storey extension, to the side and back of existing two storey detached dwelling, alterations to existing elevations, re-configuration of existing floor plan, conversion of existing outbuilding and associated site works . SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460367

• 28 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct new livestock building, together with associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18128

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  to construct new machinery shed, together with associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17365

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 North.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumhillagh North.

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron box, erected c.1940, with raised ‘P & T’ lettering in Gaelic lettering below hooded letter opening and rounded top.

• Drumhillagh Mills, mill (water), 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile gable-fronted multiple-bay three-storey mill, built c.1820, now disused. Recent pitched corrugated-iron roof and some historic cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed stone masonry walls with squared stones to corners. Square- and segmental-arched openings with roughly cut stone voussoirs to flat arches and brick camber-arched heads. Timber sheeted doors and timber louvers to windows to drying and corn-storage upper floors. Single-arched stone road bridge to east of mill having roughly-coursed parapets and spandrels with scotch copings and roughly dressed stone voussoirs.

• Annafarney Bridge, bridge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone road bridge, built c.1850, spanning Annalee River. Scotch coping to east parapet and rounded rendered coping elsewhere. Roughly-coursed rubble stone spandrels and parapets. Quarry faced V-jointed cut stone voussoirs to segmental-headed arch on tall piers, with plinth courses to arch piers. Random rubble-stone soffit and abutments. Angled approach roads and rubble-stone wing walls.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumhillagh North

Area

1,503,218 m² (150.32 ha, 371.45 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Shercock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shercock electoral division: 1,276 people in 476 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlattylannan, Corraghy, Crilea, Cullies, Druminnick, Killaliss, Kinnea

Placenames

Drumhillagh North 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.