Drumbaun

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbaun, from 1,264 m² to 157,998 m² (15.8 ha, 39.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumbaun 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 Dec 2018Conditional

  erection of a new 36m multi-user telecommunications support structure carrying 9 No. antennas and associated remote radio units, 6 No. communication dishes, 3 No. lighting finials and 6 No. outdoor cabinets, all enclosed within a security compound by a 2.4m high palisade fence with a 4m access gate, site access and site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18301

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 Drumbaun.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-019001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-5m; H 0.6-0.75m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.2-0.3m). In places the bank is faced with drystone masonry of uncertain date. A break (Wth 2m) in the bank at SE with a possible accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. From NW-N-NNE a modern WNW-ESE running field boundary has been built on the line of the fosse. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank and a house site (LF019-019002-) within the interior at S; these are no longer identifiable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-019002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the S sector of the interior of a rath (LF019-019001-). A house site noted in 1976 (SMR file) is no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 June 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumbaun, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Drumbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Drumbaun · An Droim Bán

Area

1,201,582 m² (120.16 ha, 296.92 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

509 people lived in 173 households in the Ardagh West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanahown, Bohermore, Cloonahard, Cooleeshil or Richfort, Deerpark, Moyra and Fortmill, Oldtown

Placenames

Drumbaun 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.