Drumloaghan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumloaghan, from 31 m² to 97,144 m² (9.71 ha, 24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Drumloaghan 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 Aug 2025Conditional

  for a dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560512

• 24 Aug 2025N/a

  for a dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560494

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 Drumloaghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumloaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Ashfield Lodge, gate lodge, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Arts-and-Crafts style L-plan two-storey gabled gate lodge, built 1932, main gable to entrance drive jettied out at upper floor over canted bay window, open porch to inner corner under catslide roof, single-storey wing adjoining side gable. Pitched clay-tile roofs with clay ridge tiles and overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and plain bargeboards. Tall brick chimeystack at junction of gables with moulded cornice. First floor hung with clay tiles bellcast above tripartite first-floor window in front gable. Upper part of side gable and rear gables half-timbered. Two bipartite casement windows flanking sculpted stone cartouche of the Clements family bearings to form horizontal band to first floor of side gable. Bipartite casement window to upper level of rear gable. Ground floor of squared roughly coursed rubble limestone with rock-faced quoins. Canted timber bay window at ground level of main gable with tripartite front, cornice, and frieze over multiple-pane casements with moulded transom division and cut-limestone sill. Smaller casement windows to ground floor having red brick dressings and chamfered limestone sills. Timber posts and beams to porch, recessed timber front door having four panels to lower half of door and glazed upper section.

• Ashfield Lodge, worker's house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Pictureque-style three-bay two-storey former estate gardener’s lodge, built c.1880, with off-centre gable rising from eaves and single-storey porch with roof extending to side over external canopy. Extended rear elevation under catslide roof. Now in use as private house. Pitched slated roof, crested red clay ridge tiles, tall brick chimneystacks, overhanging eaves with plain barge boards, hipped end to roof over open part of porch, replacement rainwater goods carried on brackets. Rendered walls with painted brick to corners and porch, exposed rubble-stone walls to front gable extending down to eaves of porch roof. Replacement windows with stone sills and brick flat-arch heads. Replacement timber sheeted door. Porch overhang supported on timber uprights on stone bases. Walled garden attached to rear.

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 Drumloaghan, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumloaghan · Droim Lócháin

Area

479,733 m² (47.97 ha, 118.54 acres)

Civil parish

Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Ashfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

414 people lived in 135 households in the Ashfield electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Claragh, Corballyquill, Drumhirk, Drummury, Tonaghbane

Placenames

Drumloaghan 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.