Drumkeelan More
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Droim Chaoláin Mór
- Area
- 49.9 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 5,062 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumkeelan More, from 1,384 m² to 111,893 m² (11.19 ha, 27.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Drumkeelan More 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
23 Jan 2020Conditional
erect a new slatted shed to include underground storage tank and roofed dungstead. The shed to contain passage area, slatted area, lie back and creep area and concrete aprons at either ends and all associated works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 205
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 Drumkeelan More.
Recorded monuments
- LE023-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a drumlin. This monument is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 211-10). It is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 29.3m E-W; 26.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.95m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.6m), which is reduced to a scarp at E and incorporated into a field bank S-W-N. There is an external fosse (at S: Wth of base 1.9m; D 0.2m) N-E-S. The original entrance is not identified. 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumkeelan More.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1478 (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 Drumkeelan More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Drumkeelan More · Droim Chaoláin Mór
- Area
- 498,636 m² (49.86 ha, 123.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoghert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Drumshanbo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumshanbo electoral division: 1,632 people in 619 households; 67% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughriman, Knocknasawna, Lisbrockan, Lustia, Moheracreevy Glebe
- Placenames
- Drumkeelan More 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.