Drumlion

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlion, from 255 m² to 148,224 m² (14.82 ha, 36.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Drumlion 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.

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a new single storey dwelling house with domestic garage / storage at basement level, form new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560633

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  to erect fully serviced single story extension to rear of existing dwelling. Works to include partial demolition to rear of dwelling, new sewage treatment & percolation area, new entrance and driveway & all ancillary works. RETENTION is also sought to retain site entrance clearance works & temporary mobile home & associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560561

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  to erect a fully serviced bungalow type dwelling with integrated carport, form new entrance, install sewage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460325

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 Drumlion.

Recorded monuments

• CV031-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An almost circular raised area (int. diam. 37.6m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Modern field boundaries at the outer lip of the fosse from NNW-E-S. Break in bank at W with accompanying causeway represents original entrance. 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

• CV031-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 40.7m) enclosed by the outline of a bank and fosse. Perimeter levelled but outline still identifiable from W-N-S. Elsewhere it has been modified and incorporated into the 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

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

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 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumlion

Area

679,402 m² (67.94 ha, 167.88 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintemple, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Bellananagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellananagh electoral division: 1,628 people in 579 households; 64% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Bellananagh, Garrymore, Shancor, Urney

Placenames

Drumlion 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.