# Drumbaun, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish An Droim Bán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,201,582 m² (120.16 ha, 296.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 68,961 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardagh, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/ardagh.md - Barony: Ardagh - Electoral division: Ardagh West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33070 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130467 - Centre: latitude 53.686731, longitude -7.710356 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbaun, from 1,264 m² to 157,998 m² (15.8 ha, 39.04 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 56524: 157,998 m² (15.8 ha, 39.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56524.md - Parcel 72598: 147,003 m² (14.7 ha, 36.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72598.md - Parcel 78589: 138,664 m² (13.87 ha, 34.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78589.md - Parcel 78069: 126,599 m² (12.66 ha, 31.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78069.md - Parcel 74503: 96,411 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74503.md - Parcel 65353: 89,834 m² (8.98 ha, 22.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65353.md - Parcel 76741: 87,874 m² (8.79 ha, 21.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76741.md - Parcel 71276: 77,060 m² (7.71 ha, 19.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71276.md - Parcel 70150: 68,961 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70150.md - Parcel 70971: 63,828 m² (6.38 ha, 15.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70971.md - Parcel 78262: 49,187 m² (4.92 ha, 12.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78262.md - Parcel 81889: 7,314 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81889.md - Parcel 66722: 4,138 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66722.md - Parcel 81804: 3,377 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81804.md - Parcel 51702: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51702.md - Parcel 79690: 1,967 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/79690.md - Parcel 55076: 1,264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55076.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 17 Dec 2018, Longford County Council 18301: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/18301/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumbaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF019-018: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-018----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-019001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF019-019002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghanahown: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghanahown.md - Bohermore: https://everytownland.com/longford/bohermore.md - Cloonahard: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonahard.md - Cooleeshil or Richfort: https://everytownland.com/longford/cooleeshil-or-richfort.md - Deerpark: https://everytownland.com/longford/deerpark-130420.md - Moyra and Fortmill: https://everytownland.com/longford/moyra-and-fortmill.md - Oldtown: https://everytownland.com/longford/oldtown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/drumbaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/drumbaun