Drumhillagh

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhillagh, from 39 m² to 125,560 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct a new dormer style dwelling house, use of an existing & established field access as a new vehicular site entrance, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660311

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

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

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560543

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and all associated site works (to include upgrading of the site entrance) arising from the above proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity which may require a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23309

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, form new entrance, install new sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated works. Significant further information has been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19203

• 28 Feb 2018Conditional

  partly demolish, rebuild and extend existing uninhabitable dwelling to form fully serviced two-storey dwelling with entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1885

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  to alter and extend previously granted slatted shed with underground storage tanks, milking parlour, under planning ref. no. 15/489 and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17408

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  demolition of the agricultural sales building, canopy and pumps and a ramp access leading to the agricultural field at the rear. Extension of the existing service station building by 130sqm increasing the total gross floor area to 558.48sqm. Reconfiguration of the internal layout of the overall building in order to provide for 3 no. food offers (17.7sqm, 16.34sqm and 13.9sqm); a net retail area of 100sqm (including ancillary off-licence 2.28sqm); a communal seating area (78.9sqm) and back of house area (138.5sqm). It is further proposed to alter the elevations of the existing service station building and provide a total of 15 no. signs/logos on the overall extended building. Provision of 3 no. pump islands with canopy over (including 3 no. signs) at north side of the service station building. All associated site works including reconfiguration of forecourt to include car parking, HGV and coach parking, new HGV fuel pump with canopy over, underground storage tank, refill point, vent pipes, new car wash, outdoor seating, outdoor play area, boundary, treatment, 'welcome' and 'exit' signage, Main ID sign and landscaping. The number of existing entrance points will be reduced from 3 to 2 and the entrance which is to be closed will be replaced with new kerbing and bollards. The existing agricultural entrance to the south will be relocated further south. Also, provision of a pumping station with new foul rising main to connect to public foul network at off-site location. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17332

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.

Recorded monuments

• CV026-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 27.4m ENE-WSW; 28.3m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a shallow fosse. Low outer bank noted in an earlier report (OPW 1970) has been almost totally levelled. Original entrance may have been at SSE where there is a narrow break in the inner bank and a causeway across the fosse. 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 Drumhillagh.

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 high, 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 Drumhillagh.

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

Name

Drumhillagh

Area

735,106 m² (73.51 ha, 181.65 acres)

Civil parish

Lavey, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Cuttragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cuttragh electoral division: 454 people in 141 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corgreagh, Feaugh, Lateever, Lismullig, Lisnananagh

Placenames

Drumhillagh 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.