Drumcah

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcah, from 84 m² to 177,691 m² (17.77 ha, 43.91 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 Drumcah 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.

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for the renovation of an existing derelict single storey cottage, the construction of a single storey extension to existing cottage, installation of an on-site WWTS, and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560682

• 21 Dec 2023Refused

  Permission for restoration alteration and refurbishment of a former vernacular style dwelling house to include proposed extension, new effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 23488

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission to erect a 24m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing and to extend an existing access track

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22856

• 6 Nov 2020Refused

  Permission for (1) A new milking parlour and a roofed dispersal yard. (2) A new slatted cow cubicle shed with underground mass concrete tanks for slurry storage. (3) An extension to an existing slatted shed and moving of adjoining gated entrance from the public road. (4) A new gated entrance from the public road and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20928

• 30 Dec 2019Refused

  Permission for 1) A milking parlour, dairy and plant room, storage area and a roofed drafting area. 2) An unroofed collecting yard and slatted tank and an unroofed walkway from the milking parlour. 3) Conversion of existing storage shed into a cow cubicle shed. 4) Two outdoor feed passages with unroofed slatted tanks. 5) One outdoor concrete feed passage with a canopy

  Permission · Louth County Council, 191107

• 11 Nov 2019N/a

  Permission for 1) A milking parlour, dairy and plant room, storage area and a roofed drafting area. 2) An unroofed collecting yard and slatted tank and an unroofed walkway from the milking parlour. 3) Conversion of existing storage shed into a cow cubicle shed. 4) Two outdoor feed passages with unroofed slatted tanks. 5) One outdoor concrete feed passage with a canopy

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19934

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission for a single storey dwelling, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area, and associated site works off new entrance.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19706

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  Outline planning permission for the erection of a replacement dwelling.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19436

• 26 Nov 2018Conditional

  RETENTION AND PERMISSION: Development consists of 1. Retention of existing dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, site entrance & all associated site works previously granted under planning permission 09/388. 2. Permission for re-alignment of site boundary.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18963

• 27 Aug 2018N/a

  The development consists of: 1. Permission for re-alignment of site boundary & relocation of site entrance. 2. Retention of alterations & extension to existing dwelling house previously granted under planning permission 09/388 (Alterations include relocation of foot print of house, & increase in overall size of dwelling)

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18679

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: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs 001462

Recorded monuments

• LH006-039 Crannog
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Roughly circular mound (diam. 10m) connected to W shoreline of Drumcah Lough by an area of bog. No visible structural features, but auguring during field survey produced occupation material.

• LH006-122 Rock art
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Lozenge-shaped tabular rock outcrop, with eight cup and ring motifs. These range from a triple-ringed example to simple cup and ring. There is a much-eroded single cup and ring mark on a nearby rock outcrop. (CLAJ 1981, 111)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcah.

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 Drumcah, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2856 (ZIP).

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 Drumcah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Drumcah · Droim Chatha

Area

1,023,886 m² (102.39 ha, 253.01 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Castlering, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,092 people lived in 352 households in the Castlering electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Boltons), Ballintra (Co. Monaghan), Drumass (Co. Monaghan), Edenagrena, Tullagee

Placenames

Drumcah 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.