43
Registros censales
9
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 18
- Hogares
- 4
- Personas
- 25 +38.9%
- Hogares
- 5 +25%
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Drumlon is a small townland located in County Cavan in the province of Ulster in northern Ireland. The townland sits within the broader landscape characteristic of Cavan, which is known for its undulating terrain, numerous lakes, and drumlin formations—the distinctive elongated hills that give the region its distinctive topography. The landscape around Drumlon reflects the glacial geology of the area, with the rolling drumlins interspersed with bogland and pasture typical of the Irish midlands. Like much of County Cavan, the area experiences a temperate maritime climate and supports agricultural activity, particularly sheep and cattle farming alongside traditional smallholding practices.
The townland's history reflects the broader patterns of settlement and land use in County Cavan. As a rural townland in Ulster, Drumlon would have been shaped by the region's complex history of Gaelic and Norman influence, as well as the subsequent plantation and post-plantation periods that fundamentally altered Irish land ownership and settlement patterns. The townland system itself, which organizes rural Ireland into small administrative divisions, has medieval and early modern origins, though the exact historical record for individual townlands like Drumlon is often sparse in surviving documentation.
Drumlon remains a quiet rural community typical of many townlands in County Cavan. The area is primarily characterized by dispersed farmsteads, traditional stone walls, and country roads that wind through the drumlin landscape. Like many rural Irish townlands, it serves as an important unit of local identity and community organization, even as modern life has transformed agricultural practices and demographic patterns across rural Ireland. The townland maintains its significance as part of the cultural and geographic heritage of County Cavan.
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- Condado
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Baronía
Castlerahan
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
5 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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