Drumboy
Townland in the civil parish of Mohill, barony of Mohill, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Droim Buí
- Area
- 103 ha
- 255 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 6,690 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumboy, from 249 m² to 141,743 m² (14.17 ha, 35.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumboy 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
29 Jul 2025Conditional
dormer bungalow along with a detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, a suitable on-site sewerage treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560197
27 Mar 2025Conditional
construct agricultural storage shed to provide slatted livestock area with underground storage tank, dry bedding area and feeding area. Provide concrete apron, including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560065
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 Drumboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumboy.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1661 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Drumboy · An Droim Buí
- Area
- 1,030,253 m² (103.03 ha, 254.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Mohill
- Electoral division
- Mohill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mohill electoral division: 1,317 people in 548 households; 62% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadrumcarn, Cappagh, Cornee, Drumhany South, Gortfadda, Knockalongford, Tullybradan
- Placenames
- Drumboy 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.