Drumhecknagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhecknagh, from 423 m² to 111,434 m² (11.14 ha, 27.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drumhecknagh 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.

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  for alterations to existing dormer dwelling to include extensions to the north and west of the dwelling and associated site works. Permission is also being sought for the RETENTION of the upgraded wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360241

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  to resume & complete construction of partially completed two storey dwelling (Pl.Ref 08/985). PERMISSION also sought to RETAIN conversion of domestic garage to living accommodation & all associated and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21353

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  to erect fully serviced bungalow dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19214

• 10 Oct 2018Conditional

  to demolish existing detached domestic garage and extend and alter previously approved extension to include attached domestic garage (Pl. Ref. No. 18/97) with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18413

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  to retain and continue single storey extensions to the side & rear of existing dwelling, with associated alterations to elevations. Permission also sought to upgrade existing entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1897

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a three bay calving shed, also construct a two bay extension to the existing cubicle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1839

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 Drumhecknagh.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Known as the 'fort field' (local information). Subrectangular area (int. dims. 37m E-W; 32.2m N-S) enclosed by a low modern-looking earthen bank with the exception of E quadrant where it is bounded by a deep trench which is coterminous with the townland boundary. Situated close to the base of a drumlin ridge overlooked by rising ground. Probably the site of a rath. 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 Drumhecknagh.

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

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Drumhecknagh.

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

Name

Drumhecknagh

Area

574,693 m² (57.47 ha, 142.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Killykeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killykeen electoral division: 646 people in 215 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cauhoo, Clonagonnell, Drumleny, Loughaconnick, Tonymore

Placenames

Drumhecknagh 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.