Drumgilra
Townland in the civil parish of Annaduff, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Droim Giolra
- Area
- 46.9 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 4,552 m² (0.46 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgilra, from 118 m² to 124,576 m² (12.46 ha, 30.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Drumgilra 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
6 Jul 2023Conditional
extend existing agricultural storage shed to provide dry bedding area to the North Eastern elevation and provide open yard to the South Eastern elevation, development to include all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360039
20 Nov 2017Conditional
development consisting of (a) removal of existing front porch and provision of new 2 storey extension to front (11msq); (b) removal of existing lean to roof to rear extension and provision of new single storey extension (12msq); (c) new 2 storey extension to the rear (40msq); (d) internal alterations to the existing walls to accommodate proposed layout; (e) carry out associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17212
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 Drumgilra.
Recorded monuments
- LE032-077 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with drumlins to the E and W. This is a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 41.4m E-W; 38.3m N-S; H 0.8-1.2m) defined by a widely spread bank (Wth of base 6.3m; int. H 0.4m) at N but largely by the overgrown fosse (Wth of top 5-7m; Wth of base 1-2m; ext. D 0.2-0.8m), and an outer bank (at N: Wth of base 4.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.2m) which is visible W-NE but is curtailed by a NE-SW field bank at SE and incorporated into a NW-SE field bank (Wth of base 4.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m) at SW. The original entrance is not identified, and rath (LE032-105----) is c. 130m to the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 December 2019
- LE032-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on top of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge at a point where field banks approaching from NW, NE, SE and SW meet. It is depicted as a circular feature and described as a ‘Fort’ on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 18.8m E-W; 17.8m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth of base 2.4-2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m at S to 1.3m at W) with an outer fosse or drain (at W: Wth or top 2m; Wth of base 1m; ext. D 0.4m) E-S-W, and by a scarp (at N: Wth 1.3m; H 0.7m) elsewhere. A modern gateway has been inserted into the perimeter at S. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 December 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgilra.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumgilra.
- 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 Drumgilra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Drumgilra · Droim Giolra
- Area
- 469,427 m² (46.94 ha, 116 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaduff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Annaduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Annaduff electoral division: 249 people in 90 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Drumgilra 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.