Drumgora

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgora, from 442 m² to 374,586 m² (37.46 ha, 92.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Drumgora 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.

• 28 Jan 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing farm building and construct in their place a six bays agricultural shed consisting of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, calf pens, manure storage area general purpose area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 255

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 Drumgora.

Recorded monuments

• CV039-043 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The site is divided into two unequal portions by a modern field boundary running NNW-SSE, flanked by a modern laneway on its W side. The larger portion, NE of this, has been levelled. The surviving portion is defined by a partially defaced steep scarp from S-NW. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• Bellasis Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay single-cell Presbyterian church, built 1837, two-storey two-bay addition to south gable, recent boiler house to rear. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge and hip tiles, hipped roof to south attachment, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth ruled-and-lined rendered walls with corbel stone at eaves, channel jointed smooth quoins to corners. Recessed inscribed stone plaques between windows, south plaque ‘REV. JOHN KING / MINISTER’ and north plaque ‘BELLASIS / 1837’. Round-headed openings to nave with smooth plaster surrounds, stone sills, and replacement multiple pane timber windows. Timber sheeted entrance door. Interior with flat plaster ceiling having recessed timber vents above aisle. Concave cornice profile to plastered walls, with timber dado to lower section of north wall. Timber sheeted double doors to entrance lobby. Steps to north end with timber lectern, font, and desk. Coloured clay tiles to entrance lobby with timber stairs leading to upper level. Timber wall bench in ground floor room off lobby. Stone grave monuments in graveyard directly east of church. Rendered masonry boundary walls having octagonal-profile stone piers with profiled caps flanking forged metal gates. Recent metal gates and masonry piers to pedestrian entrance to east of church. Detached single-storey corrugated-iron building, c.1950, to south.

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 Drumgora, 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 high, 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 Drumgora.

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

Name

Drumgora

Area

1,133,054 m² (113.31 ha, 279.98 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,210 people lived in 1,733 households in the Virginia electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornaslieve, Correagh Glebe, Drumagolan, Fintawan, Killyduff, Lisgrea, Lisnafana, Pollamalady

Placenames

Drumgora 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.