Drummury
Drummury is a townland in the civil parish of Killanummery, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Droim Úraigh.
- Area
- 65.5 ha
- 162 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 40,214 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummury, from 1,166 m² to 149,806 m² (14.98 ha, 37.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drummury 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
No planning application touches the townland of Drummury 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.
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 Drummury.
Recorded monuments
- LE015-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the top of the N-facing slope of the N shoulder of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 29.6m NW-SE; 24.3m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank that is flush with the interior (Wth 2.7-5.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7-1.1m) and an external fosse (Wth of base 2-2.5m; D 0.2-0.3m), the outer edge of which is curtailed N-SE by a field bank. The entrance (Wth of base 2.4m) is at NNE. It is unplanted in a coniferous forest. 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
- LE015-091 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of an E-W drumlin ridge. It is not marked on any OS map, but it is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 348-7). This is a circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (max. H 0.3m) and traces of a slight fosse visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2m) which is best preserved S-W-N. The monument is quartered by field banks and drains, the E half being planted in coniferous forest, while the W half is covered with grass and rushes. 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 Drummury.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drummury, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummury.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drummury with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Drummury · Droim Úraigh
- Area
- 655,157 m² (65.52 ha, 161.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killanummery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Drumahaire, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,714 people lived in 639 households in the Drumahaire electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardvarney, Cashel, Corcusconny, Fenagh, Gortatresk, Sranacrannaghy
- Placenames
- Drummury 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.