Drumlesh
Drumlesh is a townland in the civil parish of Inagh, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 98.6 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 950,116 m² (95.01 ha, 234.78 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Drumlesh, from 950,116 m² (95.01 ha, 234.78 acres) to 950,116 m² (95.01 ha, 234.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- P1Agriculture
Inagh Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Inagh Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Water Bodies (General)
Inagh Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jul 2024Conditional
for development of a livestock slatted unit with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 24239
13 Dec 2023Conditional
for the construction of a 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and percolation area, connection to necessary services, new entrance together with all associated ancillary and incidental site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360540
8 Nov 2023Conditional
to construct a Livestock Holding Yard with cattle crush and effluent tank with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23562
16 Mar 2022N/a
for the construction of a 2 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and percolation area, connection to necessary services, utilization of existing entrance as a shared entrance, together with all associated and incidental site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22232
3 Apr 2020Conditional
for development of a strawbedded agricultural shed and a manure pit with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20229
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 Drumlesh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumlesh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumlesh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumlesh, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumlesh.
- 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 Drumlesh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Drumlesh
- Area
- 986,394 m² (98.64 ha, 243.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Ballyea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 781 people lived in 296 households in the Ballyea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkeel East, Carrowkeel West, Drumcullaun, Muckinish, Sileshaun East, Sileshaun West
- Placenames
- Drumlesh 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.