Drumscruddan

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumscruddan, from 13 m² to 219,146 m² (21.91 ha, 54.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Drumscruddan 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.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  for a detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460631

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  for (1) construction of a single storey bungalow dwelling and detached domestic garage (2) To install a proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area (3) To make a new entrance onto public road along with all necessary landscaping and boundary treatment works (4) all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460424

• 12 Dec 2022Refused

  for (a) change of use of agricultural land for use for field archery (b) construction of a detached dormer style archery club room building (c) to form new vehicular entrance, driveway and associated car park (d) together with all associated site works including the installation of foul water storage tank

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22514

• 24 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct an agricultural shed which will consist of a slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath, calving pens, also to construct a two bay roofed dungstead and a new farmyard roadway and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22347

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  to a) Retain 1 No. existing feed preparation/general purpose storage shed and b) PLANNING PERMISSION to install solar PV panels on the roofs of 5 No. existing pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (incl. feed storage bins, water storage tanks etc.) and all associated site works on the site of existing pig farm at Drumscruddan, Crosserlough, Co. Cavan. This application relates to a development, which is for the purpose of an activity requiring a licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013, as amended

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 20320

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of (1) install proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, (2) decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and (3) complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1987

• 16 Aug 2017Conditional

  to retain (1) one storey extension to rear of existing one storey type dwelling incorporating sanitary and living accommodation (2) domestic storage shed to rear of site (3) revised site layout and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17359

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 Drumscruddan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumscruddan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumscruddan

Area

1,521,609 m² (152.16 ha, 376 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Kilnaleck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,216 people lived in 442 households in the Kilnaleck electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clare, Crosserlough, Duffcastle, Keenagh, Kiffagh

Placenames

Drumscruddan 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.