Drumard
Townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Longford, Co. Longford; in Irish An Droim Ard
- Area
- 220.6 ha
- 545 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 3,687 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumard, from 308 m² to 192,803 m² (19.28 ha, 47.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Drumard 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
28 Sept 2020Conditional
the provision of additional outdoor space, the construction of an amphitheatre and a biodiversity/ecology walkway, providing a suitable facility for educational and recreational activities for two schools and the local community, footpaths, river bridges, extensive planting, new proposed entrances, piers and fencing and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 20216
21 Mar 2019Conditional
for the proposed construction of a dormer type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite sewerage treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1978
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 Drumard.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumard.
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1885. Comprising banded shaft with fluting to spout, decorative cap and finial, and with curved pumping arm. Cast-iron foundry badge to base reading ‘Shannon Foundry Limerick’. Set on concrete base in rectangular enclosure with rendered boundary walls, open to road-frontage to the west. Flight of rendered steps to the rear (east). Located adjacent to road, to the northeast of Ballinamuck.
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 high, 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 Drumard.
- 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 Drumard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Drumard · An Droim Ard
- Area
- 2,205,502 m² (220.55 ha, 544.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Moyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moyne electoral division: 307 people in 120 households; 85% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corglass, Farmullagh, Gortermone (Co. Leitrim), Kiltycon, Leggagh
- Placenames
- Drumard 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.