Drumhirk

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhirk, from 472 m² to 100,237 m² (10.02 ha, 24.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 57 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 Drumhirk 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumhirk in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumhirk.

Recorded monuments

• LE036-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the crest of and at the centre of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 39m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (at W: Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m), with an outer fosse (at W: Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.8m) at W. It is disturbed by a field boundary at E. Archaeological testing (03E0166) immediately to the S produced no related material (Read 2003, 2006). 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: 7 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Drumhirk.

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 Drumhirk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Drumhirk · Droim Thoirc

Area

1,375,016 m² (137.5 ha, 339.77 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Rinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rinn electoral division: 466 people in 183 households; 68% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Breanross North, Drumgilra, Drumgrania, Farnaght, Gortletteragh, Lear

Placenames

Drumhirk 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.