Drumlaunaght

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlaunaght, from 5 m² to 80,460 m² (8.05 ha, 19.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Sept 2026N/a

  for complete upgrade of the existing floodlighting installation serving main pitch, through the removal of the existing floodlighting equipment and replacement with a modern LED floodlighting system, including all associated electrical works & civil works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660505

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  for complete upgrade of the existing floodlighting installation serving main pitch, through the removal of the existing floodlighting equipment and replacement with a modern LED floodlighting system, including all associated electrical works & civil works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660483

• 19 Aug 2026N/a

  to close up existing site entrance and form a new replacement vehicular site entrance onto public roadway

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660460

• 1 Apr 2026Conditional

  for (1) use of an enclosed yard area to rear of licensed premises as a Beer Garden, together with the erection of a covered seating area comprising of a corrugated roof supported on timber posts, and (2) A Change of Use of part of existing commercial premises to use as an outdoor car sales forecourt, and part of an existing building to use as an ancillary office - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660148

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  for: 1) Renovation to derelict cottage including single storey extension to rear and two storey extension to cottage form stair well. 2) Rising of roof and walls to derelict cottage by 300mm 3) Connection of dwelling to public sewer system 4) All associates site works and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560444

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  to erect a temporary new detached steel-framed gym building, together with all associated site development works. Planning Permission is also sought to demolish vacant dwelling house & domestic storage building

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560173

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  to (1) construct a new detached domestic garage to existing dwelling house, and (2) form a new vehicular site entrance onto public roadway

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360122

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  to erect detached domestic garage and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21412

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  demolish existing derelict dwelling and erect two-storey detached replacement dwelling, detached domestic garage, relocate existing site entrance, connections to services and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20266

• 30 Nov 2017Conditional

  to retain existing signage and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 17504

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  (i) Retain change of use from two storey outbuildings to hair and beauty spa, Unit 'A'. (ii) Retain change of use from two storey outbuildings to barbers, Unit 'B'. (iii) Retain single storey cabin type dwelling, Unit 'C'. (iv) Retain single storey cabin type dwelling, Unit 'D'. (v) Retain single storey mobile home type dwelling, Unit 'E'. (vi) Retain existing external metal structure, Unit 'F', and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 17410

• 27 Sept 2017N/a

  to retain existing signage and all ancillary works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 17418

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  to retain (1) storey and half type extension to side of existing storey and half type dwelling consisting of bathroom and kitchen (2) domestic garage/store to rear (3) gazebo to rear garden and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17344

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

  to retain storage extension linked to ground floor of existing building, also change of use from first floor accommodation to office accommodation, and all ancillary works. Significant further information has been submitted

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 1786

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 Drumlaunaght.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumlaunaght.

Architectural heritage

• Gate lodge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Greek Revival three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1845, with projecting entrance porch. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with replacement ridge tiles, oversailing eaves supported on plain timber brackets, cut-stone central chimneystack and replacement rainwater goods. Walls now stripped to reveal red brick with brick cornice, having vertical ashlar strip of quoins raised to form antae, and cut-stone plinth all round. Two-stage windows flanking porch divided by stone lintel, to north bay small window over lintel with blind brick recess below, opposite arrangement to south bay. Replacement casement windows. Advanced flat-roofed porch with pilasters, full salient entablature and blocking course, and replacement timber panelled door with glazed upper sections. Corner antae framing a wide window on each gable with raised cutstone surround and stone sill, brick relieving arch over, and replacement tripartite casement windows. Rear elevation to road with same two-stage window recesses as front elevation having window to one upper section and all others as blind brick.

• Stables, 1825–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ranges of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings, built 1828-35, set around courtyard with gated opening to north-west, recent single-storey structure to south internal side of yard. Mainly now derelict except for south wing recently converted to commercial use. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, brick and rendered chimneystacks, sections of cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Replacement slate roof to south block. Quarry faced snecked stone walling with squared stones to corners. Brick dressing to square- and-segmental headed windows with stone sills. Brick jambs and elliptical heads to stable openings. South-west external face of stable block with series of four cut stone arches to ground floor having stone dressing to segmental-headed door openings. Timber sheeted doors and some six and nine pane timber casement windows. South-west arched openings with uPVC window and door screens and uPVC windows to upper floor.

• Water pump, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880. Circular banded shaft, wider fluted head with gadrooned domed cap and spike pinnacle. Spout with raised rim and projecting bucket lip, cow tailed handle pivoted on lug projecting from one side of head. Secured on concrete slab surrounded by iron railings at roadside location.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1800, with single-storey returns to rear. Shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now disused. Steeply pitched corrugated-iron roof with half-dormers having decorative timber bargeboards to rear elevation. Smooth rendered walls with plinth course and quoins to front elevation. Roughcast render over rubble stone walls and brick surround to openings to rear. Stone sills to windows with patent reveals and one-over-one timber sash windows having half-exposed sash boxes, front elevation. Stone sills and two-over-two timber sash windows to rear elevation. One-over-one timber sashes to dormers. Render architrave with sunken panels imitating block-and-start motif and keystone to entrance. Four-panelled timber door with bolection mouldings to upper panels, frame rising from socles. Shopfront having half-height four-pane casement window over stone sill, metal window guard, and receivers on lintel for wooden external shutter, timber sheeted door with frame rising from socles, all enclosed by patent reveal. Fronts directly on to street.

• Water pump, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880. Circular banded shaft, wider fluted head with gadrooned domed cap and spike pinnacle. Spout with raised rim and projecting bucket lip, cow tailed handle pivoted on lug projecting from one side of head. Secured on concrete slab at roadside location.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

• Drumlaunaght, Stradone5 sales

Name

Drumlaunaght

Area

354,690 m² (35.47 ha, 87.65 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Stradone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

855 people lived in 294 households in the Stradone electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagolrick, Clondargan, Corraneary, Raheelagh

Placenames

Drumlaunaght 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.