Drumagh
Drumagh is a townland in the civil parish of Killabban, barony of Slievemargy, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Dromach.
- Area
- 151.5 ha
- 374 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 8,090 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumagh, from 91 m² to 298,872 m² (29.89 ha, 73.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Drumagh 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
17 Apr 2024Conditional
refurbish and alter existing dwelling, permission to construct a new single storey extension to same dwelling, demolition of previous extension and existing agricultural outbuildings to facilitate the proposed extension, new domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system, permission to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance to a new splayed entrance, permission to relocate the existing haybarn on site, new hardcore yard, landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460199
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 Drumagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumagh.
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 Drumagh, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumagh.
- 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 Drumagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Drumagh · Dromach
- Area
- 1,514,523 m² (151.45 ha, 374.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killabban, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Electoral division
- Turra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 392 people lived in 130 households in the Turra electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardateggle, Clonbrock, Doonane, Garrendenny, Mayo, Monavea, Towlerton, Turra
- Placenames
- Drumagh 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.