Drumhalry
Drumhalry is a townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Granard, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Droim Chalraí.
- Area
- 361.6 ha
- 894 acres
- Land parcels
- 144
- registered freehold, median 6,344 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
144 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhalry, from 100 m² to 226,780 m² (22.68 ha, 56.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumhalry 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 May 2025Conditional
to construct a bungalow type dwelling house, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560106
10 Oct 2024Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling house, alterations to existing entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, change of use of existing cottage to storage, decommissioning of existing septic tank, retention of existing garage and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460229
10 Sept 2024Refused
construct 4 nr. Glamping Pods, 1 nr. multi-use Pod, utility/storage shed, parking, signage (2m2), biodiversity landscaping with pond, bored well, lighting, soakpit, new/augmented entrance, gates, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460199
31 May 2024Conditional
the proposed construction of a two storey extension to an existing cottage type dwelling house, domestic garage and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460108
26 Mar 2024Conditional
(a) the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house consisting of entrance hall and living space, (b) internal and external alteration to existing dwelling house, and (c) the material change of use of an existing barn to garage/storage at ground floor level and kitchen/dining space at first floor level, alterations to existing entrance, new boundary walls, piers and fencing, new agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. The significant further information furnished to the planning authority consists of alterations to the plans and external envelope of the proposed dwelling, new agricultural & domestic entrance locations, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460057
12 Jan 2024N/a
to build a walking trail for the general public along the shore of Guinikin Lough, from Crannagh Bridge to the north of the lake, to Woodlands Bridge south of the lake, linking to the Community Path at the Arvagh GAA grounds at Drumnawall, Co Cavan. The trail will be built above the higher water line of the shore and will be accessible to walkers, cyclists and people of limited mobility. The walk will be 1km long, 2 meters wide and constructed from suitable stone and gravel materials. There will be a stock fence on the land side of the walk
Permission · Cavan County Council, 246
4 May 2023Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF Planning Reg. No. 17/535; to erect fully serviced two storey clubhouse containing dressing rooms, showers, toilets, meeting rooms, gym, store and incorporating spectator stands, new entrance, carparking, connection to group water scheme and connect to public sewer, PERMISSION also sought to form 2 no. playing fields/walking track and erect associated floodlighting with all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 23194
27 Mar 2023Conditional
the demolition of existing dwelling, the construction of a new detached residential dwelling and garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and precolation area, upgrade existing entrance, landscaping, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2361
13 Mar 2023N/a
for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant for St Patrick's Arva GAA club. The treatment plant will consist of 1. Oakstown Super BAF 12 PE Wastewater Treatment System, 2. Ecoflo Coco Filter 4EH; 3. Pump Chamber; and 4. Percolation Area and associated pipework. This wastewater treatment system is for a development that has received planning permission (17/535)
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23103
16 Feb 2022Conditional
for the erection of a single-storey extension and patio area to the back of the existing detached dwelling and associated renovations
Permission · Longford County Council, 2228
20 Dec 2017Conditional
erect fully serviced two storey clubhouse containing dressing rooms, showers, toilets, meeting rooms, gym, store and incorporating spectator stands, new entrance, carparking, connection to group water scheme and connect to public sewer, permission also sought to form 2 no. playing fields / walking track and erect associated floodlighting with all ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17535
22 May 2017Conditional
to construct a two-storey dwelling with attached domestic garage and carport, install a proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, form new entrance from the public road and all associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17147
18 Jan 2017Refused
Proposed two no. bungalow type dwelling houses together with basements, entrances, boundary fences/walls, septic tanks with percolation areas and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 178
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 Drumhalry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumhalry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumhalry.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumhalry, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumhalry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumhalry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Drumhalry · Droim Chalraí
- Area
- 3,615,923 m² (361.59 ha, 893.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Moyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 307 people lived in 120 households in the Moyne electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghagah, Birrinagh, Drumnawall (Co. Cavan), Enaghan, Fihoragh, Kilgarve (Co. Cavan), Moyne, Rosduff, Woodland (Co. Cavan)
- Placenames
- Drumhalry 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.