Glasdrumman More
Townland in the civil parish of Inishmagrath, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Ghlasdromainn Mhór
- Area
- 115.6 ha
- 286 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 10,419 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glasdrumman More, from 1,915 m² to 145,795 m² (14.58 ha, 36.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Glasdrumman 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
No planning application touches the townland of Glasdrumman More 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 Glasdrumman More.
Recorded monuments
- LE015-146 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a level plateau in a low-lying landscape of rough pasture with a S-N stream c. 100m to the W. A small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20-25m) is indicated on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No feature is visible at ground level in an area that appears never to have been reclaimed. It is now planted within a forest (Bing 2013). 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/revision: 13 December 2011
- LE015-148 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Located at the E tip of an E-W ridge. It is indicated only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure planted with trees. This is a circular area (diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m). It is planted with mature deciduous trees. The tree-ring (LE015-149----) is c. 75m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 September, 2016
- LE015-149 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated on a steep SE-facing slope. It is indicated only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature planted with trees. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 46m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by a earthen bank, which survives best at N (Wth 3m;H 0.8m). It is planted with mature deciduous trees and the remnants of a WSW-ENE roadway from a house that was called Glasdrumman House c. 200m to the SW run through the interior, The tree-ring (LE015-148----) is c. 75m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 September, 2016
- LE017-005 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Located on top of a small drumlin and within view of Glasdrumman House, c. 170m to the NE. It is indicated as an enclosure planted with trees only the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular enclosure (diam. 31m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.5m; int. H 0.3m) and a slight external fosse (Wth of top 1.5-2.2m; ext. D 0.2-0.3m). It is planted with coniferous trees but there are some mature deciduous trees on the perimeter. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September, 2016
- LE017-007 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated towards the top of the N-facing slope of a drumlin and within view of Glassdrumman House, c. 300m to the NNW. It is indicated as an enclosure planted with trees only the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular area (diam. 56m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m). It is divided pie-wise into three by field banks that extend from the centre beyond the perimeter to the NW, NE and SSE. The N and E sections are planted with coniferous trees, while the other third is in grass with bushes on the perimeter. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September, 2016
Architectural heritage
- Glasdrumman House, farm house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey with attic farmhouse, built c.1760, with outbuildings to rear yard. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Profiled gutters supported by bracketed eaves course. Rendered walls with lined-and-ruled detail. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills. Replacement casement windows to rear elevation. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door and painted glass fanlight. Rear yard enclosed by sweeping wall with niches, pointed-arched door opening and circular gate piers and cornice. Ruined multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west of house with random coursed walls. Tooled stone sills to window openings. Stone lintels to window and door openings. Post and lintel opening to coach house. Single-storey range of outbuildings to north of house.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glasdrumman More.
- 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 Glasdrumman More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Glasdrumman More · An Ghlasdromainn Mhór
- Area
- 1,155,890 m² (115.59 ha, 285.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishmagrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Drumkeeran, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brockagh, Corduff, Glasdrumman Beg, Gortnasillagh West, Greagh, Lugmeeltan, Shivdelagh
- Placenames
- Glasdrumman 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.