Drumeague

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumeague, from 652 m² to 321,731 m² (32.17 ha, 79.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Drumeague 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.

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  to make alterations to previously approved slatted shed with underground storage tank under planning ref. no. 2360275 consisting of adding a second underground storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660257

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks, a milking parlour, a collecting yard with underground storage tanks and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560730

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the development of the replacement of existing traditional septic tank and soakaway serving existing two-storey dwelling house with a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460166

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  to; a) construct a shed for the housing of livestock (including underground slatted slurry-storage tank), & b) construct a roof over portion of existing yard area (as an extension to an existing roof), together with other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360275

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  for retention for alterations to existing slatted shed with underground storage tanks previously granted under planning ref: no: 19/408 and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 22361

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  a two storey style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, upgrade existing site entrance, walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21212

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  to construct extensions to 2 No. existing Poultry houses together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) has been submitted with this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 20545

• 22 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19408

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 Drumeague.

Recorded monuments

• CV028-016 Crannog
  Description

  Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Small almost oval-shaped island (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) in Drumeague Lough Lower, c. 25m from the shoreline. 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

• CV028-018 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV028-019 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock. This is a well- preserved gallery, aligned roughly SSW-NNE. There are two outer wall stones to N and S and a facade- stone stands forward of the N side of the gallery. The structure stands in a mound 9.5m by 7m by 1m high. The main chamber, 5.5m long, is closed by a tall, transverse slab at the W. In front of this a small stone, on which rests a displaced slab, may form the S side of a portico. Six stones form the N side of the main chamber, five remain at the S, and it is closed by a low backstone. The eastern pair of stones on both sides are stepped in from the line of the others and are markedly lower than them. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 129-30, No. 29; CUCAP BGL 76) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumeague.

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

Name

Drumeague · Droim Éag

Area

1,638,681 m² (163.87 ha, 404.93 acres)

Civil parish

Knockbride, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Skeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skeagh electoral division: 445 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cavanskeldragh, Corleck, Corravilla, Corweelis, Drumamuck Glebe, Knockbride, Skeagh, Tattyreagh

Placenames

Drumeague 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.