Drumcartagh or Diamondhill

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcartagh or Diamondhill, from 471 m² to 48,705 m² (4.87 ha, 12.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Drumcartagh or Diamondhill 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 Jul 2025Refused

  to retain garage substructure and complete domestic storage portal frame garage and associated site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2560409

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  for a ten-year planning permission for a solar energy development comprising photovoltaic solar panels on mounting frames; electrical control building and MV power station; underground electrical and communications cabling; access tracks; security fencing; pole-mounted security cameras; and all associated and ancillary site development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development is 35-years. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560231

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  to retain and complete part single storey/ part two storey dwelling under construction whis is a change of house type from that previously approved under planning reference 19/464 which included removal of an existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21783

• 20 Nov 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing bungalow dwelling and construct replacement part single storey/part dormer dwelling, use and upgrade existing entrance, decommission existing septic tank and provide new effluent treatment system, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19464

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 Drumcartagh or Diamondhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcartagh or Diamondhill.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcartagh or Diamondhill.

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 Drumcartagh or Diamondhill, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumcartagh or Diamondhill.

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

Name

Drumcartagh or Diamondhill · Droim Chartach

Area

278,788 m² (27.88 ha, 68.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kildallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Diamond, the unit of the census

Census 2022

151 people lived in 58 households in the Diamond electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bocade Glebe, Drumbagh, Drumcanon, Druminiskill, Drummully West

Placenames

Drumcartagh or Diamondhill 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.