# Drumroe, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyadams, barony of Ballyadams, Co. Laois; in Irish An Droim Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 692,512 m² (69.25 ha, 171.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,967 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyadams, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/ballyadams.md - Barony: Ballyadams - Electoral division: Barrowhouse, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 518 people lived in 172 households in the Barrowhouse electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28140 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100544 - Centre: latitude 52.955798, longitude -7.01794 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumroe, from 192 m² to 241,407 m² (24.14 ha, 59.65 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 263749: 241,407 m² (24.14 ha, 59.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/263749.md - Parcel 242850: 90,665 m² (9.07 ha, 22.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/242850.md - Parcel 253913: 77,022 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253913.md - Parcel 257136: 60,087 m² (6.01 ha, 14.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257136.md - Parcel 226607: 41,956 m² (4.2 ha, 10.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226607.md - Parcel 4900805: 35,955 m² (3.6 ha, 8.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900805.md - Parcel 257646: 23,355 m² (2.34 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/257646.md - Parcel 226338: 20,106 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226338.md - Parcel 235611: 19,488 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235611.md - Parcel 232198: 16,316 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/232198.md - Parcel 4900734: 16,267 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900734.md - Parcel 245678: 12,967 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245678.md - Parcel 267884: 7,370 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267884.md - Parcel 5067510: 5,303 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5067510.md - Parcel 245526: 4,517 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245526.md - Parcel 258778: 3,577 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258778.md - Parcel 234760: 3,533 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234760.md - Parcel 260788: 3,501 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/260788.md - Parcel 255499: 3,309 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255499.md - Parcel 268589: 2,487 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268589.md - Parcel 264294: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/264294.md - Parcel 265305: 1,194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265305.md - Parcel 225394: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/225394.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumroe in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 29 May 2026, Laois County Council 2660323: Conditional. Permission. - Replace (“restringing”) and uprating of c.10.2km section of the conductor along the existing Athy - Carlow 110 kV OHL circuit; - Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; - Replacement of 14No. existing Intermediate Wooden Polesets, with similar structures. The replacement of these structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m, with height increases between 1m and 2m; - Replacement of 15No. existing Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; - Bar member replacements to 2No. existing steel angle masts; - Recapping works on shear blocks at 2No. existing steel angle masts; and, - All associated works/development to existing structures, including insulator/hardware replacement (strain clamps, suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of step bolts, replacement of line identification and danger notices, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anti-climbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660323/0 - 26 May 2026, Kildare County Council 2660550: Conditional. Permission. Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of c.8.89km section of the conductor along the existing Athy - Carlow 110 kV OHL circuit; - Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; - Replacement of 11No. existing Intermediate Wooden Polesets, with similar structures. The replacement of these structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 24m, with height increases between 1m and 3m; - Replacement of 12No. existing intermediate Wooden Polesets crossarms; - Recapping works on shear blocks at 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Foundation strengthening of 1No. existing steel angle mast; - Bar member replacements to 8No. existing steel angle masts; - Separation of the existing double OHL circuit to provide for a new bypass OHL section measuring approximately 422m, connecting from the existing Athy 110 kV substation to the following proposed new structures on the existing Athy - Portlaoise 110 kV OHL: 2no. new single circuit angle masts (approximately 22.5m maximum height) and 1no. new wooden poleset (approximately 23.6m maximum height); and, - All associated works/development to existing structures, including hardware replacement (strain clamps, suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of step bolts, replacement of line identification and danger notices, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anti-climbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660550/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumroe. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumroe, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2355, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2355.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/drumroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/drumroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/drumroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballylynan: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballylynan.md - Graigue: https://everytownland.com/laois/graigue-100642.md - Killyganard: https://everytownland.com/laois/killyganard.md - Shanganagh Beg: https://everytownland.com/laois/shanganagh-beg.md - Whitebog: https://everytownland.com/laois/whitebog.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/drumroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/drumroe