Drummora Great

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummora Great, from 115 m² to 283,186 m² (28.32 ha, 69.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Drummora Great 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.

• 4 Nov 2025Conditional

  for the following works operating as a car dealership (motor sales), including: A) (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) On office - removal of high gable wall in line with slope of roof, and facing with natural stone. (iv) On store - removal of pedestrian door, and decorative ornaments on capping, increase in pitch of lean-to roof, incorporating translucent sheeting; (v) removal of front boundary wall and gate with construction of pier and relocation of farm gate. (vi) metal structure, used as a valeting area; (v) an open vehicle storage/sales yard; (vi) associated signage, hardstanding and ancillary site works; B) Retention permission also sought for alterations to existing derelict dwelling house to include; (i) increase in roof pitch including 3 no. roof lights to front and rear respectively, (ii) exposing of existing natural stone on external walls, (iii) metal sheeting on gable walls, (iv) removal of gable windows at both gables, addition of flue on rear elevation (v) widening of entrance gates, removing blockwork pillars either side, (vi) erection of separation fence at northwest of dwelling, (vii) window replacing door on northwest rear elevation, (viii) roof fitted to store attached to northeast gable of dwelling, (ix) and associated site works and hard surfaces. C (i) With use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply for the the office and dwelling house

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560656

• 15 Oct 2025N/a

  for PERMISSION for the following works operating as a car dealership (motor sales), including: A) (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) On office - removal of high gable wall in line with slope of roof, and facing with natural stone. (iv) On store - removal of pedestrian door, and decorative ornaments on capping, increase in pitch of lean-to roof, incorporating translucent sheeting; (v) removal of front boundary wall and gate with construction of pier and relocation of farm gate. (vi) metal structure, used as a valeting area; (v) an open vehicle storage/sales yard; (vi) associated signage, hardstanding and ancillary site works; B) RETENTION permission also sought for alterations to existing derelict dwelling house to include; (i) increase in roof pitch including 3 no. roof lights to front and rear respectively, (ii) exposing of existing natural stone on external walls, (iii) metal sheeting on gable walls, (iv) removal of gable windows at both gables, addition of flue on rear elevation (v) widening of entrance gates, removing blockwork pillars either side, (vi) erection of separation fence at northwest of dwelling, (vii) window replacing door on northwest rear elevation, (viii) roof fitted to store attached to northeast gable of dwelling, (ix) and associated site works and hard surfaces. C) (i) With use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply for the the office and dwelling house

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560618

• 1 Sept 2025N/a

  for the retention of: (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) a valeting area; (iv) an open vehicle storage yard; (v) associated hardstanding, signage, and all ancillary site works; and (vi) use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560516

• 28 Aug 2025N/a

  for (i) change of use of an agricultural shed to a commercial mechanics workshop with mezzanine storage level; (ii) change of use of an agricultural store to an office, toilet and store; (iii) a valeting area; (iv) an open vehicle storage yard; (v) associated hardstanding, signage, and all ancillary site works; and (vi) use of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and connection to the existing water supply

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560513

• 21 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the demolition of existing extensions to front, side and rear of existing dwelling and demolition of existing shed. Erection of new part 2 storey, part single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling with associated alterations to elevations, erection of new detached domestic garage and shed. Alterations to site boundary and all ancillary site works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560487

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Oughter and Associated Loughs SAC 000007
• Special Protection Area: Lough Oughter SPA 004049
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV025-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Although site has been levelled, the outline of the perimeter is still identifiable enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 43m). From NW-NNW the perimeter has been extensively modified and incorporated into field boundary. 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

• Bellahillan Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch stone road bridge, built c.1780, over River Erne, having semi-circular arches and flat deck. Squared stone blocks to abutments and piers with V-cutwaters. Roughly squared rubble stone barrels with roughly cut thin stone voussoirs to arch rings. Squared rubble stone spandrels and parapet walls with large roughly squared coping blocks. 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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drummora Great

Area

1,130,450 m² (113.05 ha, 279.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Crossdoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Clonloskan, Drummora Little, Farranseer, Legaland, Marahill, Monnery Lower, Slanore

Placenames

Drummora Great 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.