Drumcrow

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcrow, from 958 m² to 358,605 m² (35.86 ha, 88.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4White Lands (Built up area)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  for the demolition of three existing purpose-built student accommodation blocks (total floor area approximately 882 sq.m), and the construction of a new two-storey purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) building providing 24 no. ensuite study bedrooms with associated shared communal facilities, ancillary accommodation, together with the part refurbishment of the existing outbuildings (protected structure) to provide communal student facilities, and all associated site works and services - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560674

• 7 Nov 2025N/a

  for the demolition of three existing purpose-built student accommodation blocks (total floor area approximately 882 sq.m), and the construction of a new two-storey purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) building providing 24 no. ensuite study bedrooms with associated shared communal facilities, ancillary accommodation, together with the part refurbishment of the existing outbuildings (protected structure) to provide communal student facilities, and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560663

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  for construction of (i) Suckler shed extension (ii) Livestock underpass with effluent tank (iii) Sheep shed with underground slatted tanks, Wash & boot area, Medicine store, toilet, office and training room and all associated site works. SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED - NIS

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460526

• 21 Oct 2024N/a

  for (i) Suckler shed extension (ii) Livestock underpass with effluent tank (iii) Sheep shed with underground slatted tanks, Wash & boot area, Medicine store, toilet, office and training room and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460506

• 26 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a 3 storey student accommodation block comprising 24 en-suite bedrooms, living and kitchen facilities, ground floor communal spaces and ancillary accommodation together with associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22434

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  for development which will provide for the the upgrade of the Ballyhaise Wastewater Treatment Plant and will generally comprise of the following: the construction of a new storm water holding tank complete with internal cleaning system, internal storm return pumps, access ladder and platform; construction of new sludge drying reed beds complete with sludge feed and filtrate return pipework and also a filtrate return pumping station; construction of new storm water forward feed and final effluent wash water pumping stations; installation of a kiosk to house electrical switchgear and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21270

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  for a new machinery shelter together with an extension to an existing machinery shelter and all ancillary and associated site development works at Ballyhaise Agricultural College (Protected Structure)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18516

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Oughter And Associated Loughs 000007

Recorded monuments

• CV016-052001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle was apparently erected by John Taylor at Ballyhaise c. 1610, on the instruction of the Lord Deputy. Although there are now no visible remains of this structure, Davies (1948a, 111-12) described it as a 'timber house' probably built on the site of the present Ballyhaise House, which itself was partly constructed in 1705. It is situated on a gentle slope commanding a view of the Annalee River and a ford upon which a bridge was built in the early 18th century. 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: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Ballyhaise Agricultural College, country house, 1730–1740 · National interest
  Description

  Detached eleven-bay two-storey over basement former country house, built c.1735, possibly with core of c.1700, comprising seven-bay central block having pedimented centre bays with superimposed orders and a three-bay semi-circular bow to rear elevation. Lower outer bays added c.1820 with recessed intermediate bays and advanced end bays having tripartite windows, southern bay forming end of four-bay side elevation. Now in use as college. Hipped and slated roofs with lead ridges and rendered chimneystacks of simplified Vanbrughesque design, having clay chimneypots with lotus-flower decoration. Parapet to central block as stone entablature with central pediment retaining trace of tympanum sculpture, similar entablature over bow to rear, lower stone cornices to outer bays and south wing. Red brick walls with architectural detailing of ashlar sandstone to front of main block and to later end wings, ashlar stone to centre three bays. Centre bays articulated with pilasters in superimposed Doric and Ionic orders, upper Ionic order having pulvinated frieze and cornice extending across higher central block. Doric order having blank metope frieze, cornice carried across central block and intermediate bays with plain ashlar band above and plain frieze below. Plain raised ashlar bands flanking end bays over both storeys carried round to the side elevations. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to basement below string course at window head level and ashlar outer bays. Side elevation to south with simplified banding courses at mid height and a continuous string course under the upper storey sills. Side elevation to north of rubble stone with brick surrounds to openings and large quoins to the north-west corner. The rear elevation of roughcast render, smooth ruled-and-lined render to bow. Shouldered architraves to ground and first floor windows with ashlar sill course at ground floor and six-over-six timber sash windows. Tripartite windows to outer bays with ashlar mullions and cornice hoods on scrolled brackets, six-over-nine timber sash windows to centre section at ground floor windows. Segmental-headed windows to basement with plain architraves and six-over-six timber sashes. Square-headed door opening to central bay with recent glazed double-leaf entrance doors in shouldered architrave surround topped by a segmental pediment with shell motif over carved floral garland. Rear elevation with round-headed windows to basement and ground floors, segmental-headed to first floor, both types having plain reveals to bow and brick surrounds elsewhere. Square-headed door opening to bow with shouldered architrave surmounted by corbelled canopy with carved sandstone swag motif, round-headed blind door opening to main ground level above with Gibbs surround and open-bed pediment on scroll brackets. Entrance hall with plastered brick-vaulted ceiling with deep severies and coffered centre. Black and white stone floor tiles and tall Kilkenny limestone open-bed pedimented chimneypiece. Four main reception rooms off hall, Bishop's Room having marble chimneypiece, running mould cornice and decorative centrepiece. Peacock Room having plastered brick-vaulted ceiling with elliptical-headed formerets, modillion cornice and heavy foliate centrepiece. Walls having hand-painted wallpaper with dado rail and deep skirting, panelled window joinery and panelled door with flanking pilaster architraves and plain entablature over-door and replacement marble fireplace. Oval Room in bow opens off hall to rear with compartmentalised oval ceiling having dentil cornice and foliate centrepiece, stucco panelled walls with dado rail and round-headed windows with panelled window joinery, curved Kilkenny limestone chimneypiece having central corbel with fish-scale design. Ballroom now in use as a lecture room with decorative modillion cornice and centrepiece with decorative feather motifs, dado rail and deep skirting boards, Carrara marble chimneypiece with fluted Corinthian columns supporting mantle having decorative Greek key and palmette motif to lintel. Panelled window shutters, soffits and window backs with fan detail to reveals, timber panelled doors with similar fan details to panels and overdoor with floral garlands. Stair hall off entrance hall to south with service stair beyond lobby room to the north. Dogleg stair from basement to first floor with sandstone steps from ground floor to basement. Turned balusters set on pears and blocks and scrolled tread ends with decorative fretwork detail. Door openings in stair hall have round-headed overdoors with decorative spider-web motif emulating fanlight and flanking pilaster architraves. Dining room in end bay now used as a boardroom with decorative cornice having palmette motifs, grey marble chimneypiece having flanking Ionic columns, timber panelled window and doors with fan details to panels and decorative floral garland to overdoor. Arched recess to west-end wall. Offices to basement all with brick vaulted ceilings, stone flags in parts with black and red quarry tiles to entrance hall, plain rendered window embrasures with simple historic timber shutters to some windows and some cast-iron fireplaces. Ground floor raised above surrounding area opening onto steps flanked by balustrade at raised level enclosing basement area across front and south elevation, further steps lead down to driveway. Situated within an extensive designed landscape on rising ground in a meander of Annalee River. Extensive stable and farmyard complex extends up hill to west, large south-facing walled garden to north-west, gates and lodge to south-east.

• Ballyhaise Craft Shop, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1840, with recessed three-bay entrance loggia. Now in use as retail outlet. Hipped slate roof with crested clay ridge tiles, pair of symmetrical cut-stone stacks with angled string course flanking central recess, overhanging eaves supported on decorative timber brackets, cast-iron rainwater goods. Buff-coloured brick walls to front with squared rubble corners to advanced outer bays, side and rear elevations of random rubble with brick surrounds. Windows in outer bays set within square-headed recesses, round-headed windows flanking square-headed entrance door within loggia, replacement timber casement windows and door. Opens into loggia fronted by three-bay latticed screen of wrought-iron on granite steps leading to front garden enclosed by cast-iron railings on ashlar plinth with panelled gate piers echoing in miniature the Greek stellae detail of the gate screen to Ballyhaise House on the opposite side of the road.

• Ballyhaise Agricultural College, farmyard complex, 1730–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings to north and west of Ballyhaise House, comprising L-plan stable block to north, built c.1735, joined to main façade by a screen wall, stable courtyard to west of house, built c.1820, with the south-east return attached to rear of main house, farm buildings of same date continue to the west aligned with north range forming southern edge of pentagonal-shaped former walled garden. Further L-plan ranges added c.1900 enclose farm courtyard immediately west of stable block, reached under two-stage pedimented clock tower. L-plan multiple-bay two-storey stable block to north comprising higher west range and lower north range. Hipped slate roof to west range, clay ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick chimneystack to south gable of west range with arched recess. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls with brick dressings and brick string course between ground and first floors. To west range facing rear of main house segmental-headed upper floor windows with block-and start red brick surrounds having sixteen-over-sixteen, three-over-three and two-over-two paned timber sliding-sash windows over arcade of segmental-headed brick arches with brick keystones on rounded brick piers with plain brick capitals. To north range square-headed openings to upper floor with stone sills and replacement timber shutters. Arcade of three unequal round-headed arches to ground floor linked by brick impost, western arch matches arcade to west range with rubble stone infill to form door with brick surround, central arch encloses open stone stairs to first floor having brick piers, impost and spandrels. Further round-headed door and pair of round headed windows having brick surrounds and feathered rendered reveals. North and west ranges of stable courtyard with hipped slate roofs, rendered stacks and replacement rainwater goods. Carriage arch in west wing surmounted by two-stage pedimented clock tower over eaves of front slope having red brick walls, ashlar sandstone corner piers and string course, pitched slate roof, ashlar pediment and ball finial with weather vane. Round-headed window to first stage of tower, clock face to second stage, metal lattice window to rear of tower facing farm courtyard. Rubble stone walls with brick dressings to openings, hammer-dressed quoins to east gable of north wing and return at south end. Carriage arch in north wing leading to walled garden. Three-bay single-storey arcade of carriage arches to south east of stable yard with rounded brick-arch jambs and recent glazed roof, new build attaches to south. Two-storey east wing with hipped slate roof, rendered stacks and ventilation fleches. Square-headed openings, casement windows to ground floor, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor. Interior of ranges refurbished c.1995 to provide classroom accommodation. Arch beneath clock tower leads to farmyard to west consisting of two ranges to north side with dungstead to centre of yard. Farm buildings have half-hipped slate roofs and exposed rubble and rendered walls. Large hammer dressed quoins to eastern gables.

• Ballyhaise Agricultural College, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gate screen in Greek Revival style, built c.1830, comprising ashlar limestone piers faced to inner and outer faces with battered panelled stellae, having heavy entablature and blocking course. Wide cast-iron double-leaf gates with spear-headed finials. Railings of same motif forming serpentine gate screen on moulded ashlar plinth.

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 Drumcrow, 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 Drumcrow.

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

Name

Drumcrow · Droim Cró

Area

398,246 m² (39.82 ha, 98.41 acres)

Civil parish

Castleterra, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Ballyhaise, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,152 people lived in 413 households in the Ballyhaise electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmore, Drumaraw, Drumhome, Elteen, Raheg, Townparks

Placenames

Drumcrow 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.