Drumsru

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsru, from 183 m² to 470,274 m² (47.03 ha, 116.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumsru 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.

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  RED III development will consist of a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and all associated works. This application involves the installation of solar PV over an approximate area of 140 hectares, including 30 no. transformers and 1 no. RMU. The proposed development will utilise 3 no. existing construction and operational entrances. The proposed development will utilise existing internal access tracks and will involve the construction of approximately 7km of new internal access tracks. The site is centred at X (ITM) 668919.6 and Y (ITM) 721696.8. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years, with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. The planning may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of— (a) 5 weeks, or (b) 2 weeks, in the case of a planning application for small-scale solar energy equipment development or development that is the installation of a small-scale non-ground source heat pump, beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions or may refuse to grant permission. For this application the submission period is 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660846

• 4 Jun 2026N/a

  RED III: a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and all associated works. This application involves the installation of solar PV over an approximate area of 140 hectares, including 30 no. transformers and 1 no. RMU. The proposed development will utilise 3 no. existing construction and operational entrances. The proposed development will utilise existing internal access tracks and will involve the construction of approximately 7km of new internal access tracks. The site is centred at X (ITM) 668919.6 and Y (ITM) 721696.8. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years, with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660592

• 18 Jul 2023Conditional

  to retain single storey rear extension (46.5 sqm) and associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23788

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  of works carried out under planning reference no. 041782, comprising of site access from public road and site development works. The development will consist of: Upgrading existing recessed entrance, completion of site development works, construction of single storey dwelling, on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 21723

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  (a) Erection of a single storey type house; (b) Garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) The installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area, and (d) New recessed vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 201187

• 2 Jun 2020N/a

  (ABP Decision http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/307279.htm Case is due to be decided by 05/10/2020 by ABP) Application to An Bord Pleanála for Substitute Consent to regularise the status of historic peat extraction (and ancillary works) on the milled peat production bogs of the Allen Bog Group located in counties Offaly, Westmeath, Laois and Kildare

  N/a · Kildare County Council, 20307279

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half type dwelling incorporating a wastewater treatment system, for the construction of a domestic garage and a new vehicular access onto adjoining public road and for all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191093

• 9 Sept 2019N/a

  the construction of a storey and a half type dwelling incorporating a wastewater treatment system, for the construction of a domestic garage and for all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191005

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumsru.

Recorded monuments

• KD012-018 Structure - peatland
  Description

  A single piece worked brushwood of willow/poplar (L 0.61m; diam. 0.31m) was exposed on the bog surface. It bore a single chisel point and was dated AD1430-1650. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD012-019 Platform - peatland
  Description

  Three roundwoods were exposed in a drain face, all with bark intact (min. Wth 2.46m; D 0.10m) and comprised one piece orientated NE-SW which was supported at each end by the other two pieces which were orientated NW-SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD017-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (est. ext. diam. c. 70m) defined by a scarp, but not recorded on the current (1910) ed. which shows the monument's location enclosed by a larger rectangular field, the boundaries of which have since been removed. On a very slight pasture rise on the N edge of the former flood-plain of the SW-flowing Slate River. A very poorly preserved, slightly raised, oval area (diams. 48m E-W; 30m N-S) is defined by long, low scarp (H 0.7m at N-1.8m at E), which is truncated along the N by a hedged farm track (Wth 2m), and along the W by a silted-up field drain (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD017-003 Moated site
  Description

  On level pasture c. 50m N of the SW-flowing Slate River and located almost equidistantly between two raths; KD017-002---- c. 700m to the WSW and KD017-004---- c. 800m to the ESE. A large square area (int. dims. L c. 40m; Wth c. 40m) is defined by a very poorly preserved inner earthen bank (Wth 2.6m; int H 0.2m; ext. H 1.7m) along the E side, and by a broad, steep-sided outer fosse (Wth. 4.9-5.6m; D 1-1.3m). A large limestone block (L 0.8m; H 0.15m) retains the outer face of the fosse mid-way along the N side and to its E several even larger blocks (L 1.1m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.9m) have slipped to the bottom of the fosse but may originally have been part of an entrance to the site. The fosse is heavily poached by livestock along the S side and a later field bank runs on its outer edge along the W. The interior is almost completely overgrown with blackthorn, briar, holly and hazel, some of which is coppiced. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumsru.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Drumsru with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Drumsru · Droim Sruth

Area

2,693,109 m² (269.31 ha, 665.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeage, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Kilmeage North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmeage North electoral division: 2,707 people in 881 households; 85% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allenwood South, Ballyteige North, Barnaran, Cloncumber, Drumsru, Feighcullen, Lullymore East

Placenames

Drumsru 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.