Drumdoolaghty
Drumdoolaghty is a townland in the civil parish of Doora, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Drom Dubhlachna.
- Area
- 28.9 ha
- 71 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,064 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdoolaghty, from 181 m² to 8,539 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumdoolaghty 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 May 2023Conditional
the development will consist of: 1) The installation of an external heat pump, to the rear of the proposed new school building (Planning Ref: P19/961) 2) The construction of a 2.6 m high acoustically insulated compound enclosure, of approx 45m2. 3) All associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23300
6 Dec 2019Conditional
the development will consist of the demolition of existing boundary walls, demolition of existing single storey six classroom school building of 685sq.m demolition of existing open shed of 25sq.m and demolition of prefabricated classroom building of 207 sq.m. The existing 4no. Classroom block constructed in 2011 with a gross floor area of 370sq.m will be retained and integrated into the new school. The new development consists of new two storey primary school building with a gross floor area of 1720sq.m. New accommodation consists of 8no. new Classrooms, a General Purpose Room and ancillary accommodation. In addition, site works include the replacement of the existing gated entrance with 2no. new gated vehicular and 2 no. new separate pedestrian entrance off the Knockanean Road boundary, serving 24 no. on site car parking spaces and associated set down areas, pedestrian pathways, together with 2 ball courts, play areas, a bin store, a bicycle shelter, gas tank enclosure, 3no. flagpoles, connection to existing foul drainage treatment system, separate surface water drainage, signage, landscaping and all associated site works on an overall site area oof 1.34 hectares. The building will be set back 63.285m from the Knockanean Road
Permission · Clare County Council, 19961
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumdoolaghty.
Recorded monuments
- CL034-055001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL034-055002 Field boundary
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumdoolaghty.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_581 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumdoolaghty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Drumdoolaghty · Drom Dubhlachna
- Area
- 289,243 m² (28.92 ha, 71.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Doora, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,147 people lived in 715 households in the Doora electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Creggaun, Knockanean, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Drumdoolaghty 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.