Drumsillagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsillagh, from 237 m² to 405,212 m² (40.52 ha, 100.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Drumsillagh 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.

• 17 May 2024Conditional

  Proposed Demolition Of An Extension To The Rear Of A Storey And A Half Type Dwelling House Together With The Proposed Construction Of An Extension To The Rear Of Same, Removal Of Existing Front Porch, Internal Renovations, Replacement Of Existing Shed Type Structure With A Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Replacement Of Existing Septic Tank System With A Suitable Onsite Treatment System With Polishing Filter And All Ancillary Site Works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460095

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 Drumsillagh.

Recorded monuments

• LE030-021 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Located towards the top of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. A triangular enclosure is depicted on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map on the SW side of a NW-SE farm lane, and it is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure on the 1907 edition. This is now a small triangular area (dims c. 15m x c. 15m) planted with trees. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October, 2019

• LE030-022 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Located close to the summit of a hill on the NE-facing slope, with Drumsallagh House visible c. 300m to SE. It is depicted as a small circular wooded area bisected by a NE-SW farm lane on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inc map. It is now a circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m) and an outer fosse or drain (Wth 2-3m), which is planted with what are now mature trees on the SW side of a dividing NW-SE field bank. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 October 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumsillagh.

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

Name

Drumsillagh · Droim Saileach

Area

1,071,561 m² (107.16 ha, 264.79 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigallen, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Carrigallen East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrigallen East electoral division: 302 people in 130 households; 73% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghlough, Clooncorick, Corracreeny, Cullen and Brownhill, Druminuff, Kilbrackan, Kivvy

Placenames

Drumsillagh 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.