Drumheel

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumheel, from 60 m² to 97,122 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  to retain attic conversion to living accommodation, as constructed, made to dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660407

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the addition of a portacabin at the back of existing domestic property to be used as a cat boarding facility, and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460339

• 25 Jul 2024N/a

  for the addition of a portacabin at the back of existing domestic property to be used as a cat boarding facility, and all associated works.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460332

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  to RETAIN and complete partially constructed two-storey dwelling to include entrance, sewearge treatment unit, remove existing concrete base to site No. 2 and revert back to agricultural lands and all associated works (previous approved planning reg no. 03/289 & 06/1354 relates)

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 23264

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of to construct (1) dormer type domestic store/garage incorporating home office, storage and gym, (2) revised drive layout and all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21737

• 31 Mar 2021N/a

  to retain and complete partially constructed two-storey dwelling to include entrance, sewerage treatment unit, remove existing concrete base to site No. 2 and revert back to agricultural lands and all associated works (previously approved planning reg. no. 03/289 & 06/1354 relates)

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21181

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  to retain a single storey detached home office and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18202

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 Drumheel.

Recorded monuments

• CV039-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a low but well-defined bank of earth and stone which has been extensively modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Break in bank at NE may represent 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Drumheel.

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

Name

Drumheel

Area

763,671 m² (76.37 ha, 188.71 acres)

Civil parish

Lurgan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Virginia, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Burrencarragh, Burrenrea, Carrakeelty Beg, Carrigabruse, Kilnagun, Lislea

Placenames

Drumheel 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.