Drummeel

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummeel, from 56 m² to 337,710 m² (33.77 ha, 83.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drummeel 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.

• 19 Feb 2026Conditional

  to construct an extension to an existing dwelling house, internal and external alteration to dwelling house, domestic garage, bored well, 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, 2660055

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  1). Demolish remains of existing shed, 2). Construct a 3 bay Loose House and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560186

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct slatted cubicle shed with roof mounted solar panels, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560164

• 29 May 2025N/a

  to 1). Demolish remains of existing shed, 2). Construct a 3 bay machinery shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560109

• 29 May 2025N/a

  to construct slatted cubicle shed with roof mounted solar panels, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560110

• 16 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a lean-to type loose house for the housing of horses and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560006

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single story extension to the side of an existing single storey type dwelling house, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460297

• 15 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct slatted cubicle accommodation which will adjoin existing slatted cubicle shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21267

• 26 Aug 2021Conditional

  proposed construction of a five bay single slated shed with underground effluent storage tank with creep areas together with adjoining three no. dry bedded bays and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21252

• 16 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20155

• 30 Aug 2019Conditional

  a bungalow type dwelling, detached garage, detached gym/sensory room, proprietary wastewater treatment system and ancillary works.

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19221

• 28 Mar 2019Refused

  a two storey dwelling, detached garage, detached gym room, wastewater treatment system, percolation/infiltration area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1991

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 Drummeel.

Recorded monuments

• LF009-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise in pasture. A raised D-shaped area (29.5m E-W; 28.5m N-S), with a straight NW side, enclosed from N-S-W by a partially denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.3-3.6m; H 0.3-0.5m). A shallow external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.5-1m) is identifiable only from NNE-NE-ENE. From W-NW-N the enclosing elements have been replaced by a modern field bank and drain. A report in 1975 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance may have been at NE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF009-034 Crannog
  Description

  In the SE end of Currygrane Lough. This oval, high-cairn crannog (13.5m N–S; 11m E–W) rises 1.8m above the muddy lake-bed. Only one area, a mound (H 1.5m) in the S half of the island, is above water. It may be due to the build-up of a swan’s nest at this location. The island seems to have no other major topographical differences discernible above the water line. The edges of the crannog are distinct in material and consist of small stones against a soft lake-bed. Another crannog (LF009-035----) lies c. 175m to the SW. Compiled by: Christina Fredengren Date of upload: 13 January 2013

• LF009-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep WSW-facing slope overlooking Currygrane Lough. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1986 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) was defined by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1m) from S-W-N. Elsewhere the enclosing element has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF010-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on top of a NW–SE ridge, straddling the break of slope on the SW side, which provides excellent views to the W over a broad valley and NW to Currygrane Lake. Slightly raised circular area (41.6m NE–SW; 38.7m NW–SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3–3.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.45m at NE, 1.2m at SW) with an external fosse. The external face of the bank is cut almost vertically, probably as a result of the incorporation of the rath into a later field system. The internal slope is more degraded and broadly slumped. There is a break (Wth c. 4m) in the bank at S, possibly indicating the original entrance. At SW a short section of bank is reduced to a scarp, and at NW a section (L 5–6m) has been eroded to a low rise. The fosse appears as a barely discernible dip (Wth 2–2.5m) in the external ground level. For a short distance at SW, there is a more pronounced depression (Wth 2.7m; ext. D 0.45m) but this is likely to be a relatively recent modification/recut as it merges at WNW with a field drain, which borders a field fence intersecting with the rath at this point. The interior of the rath has a very slight slope down from NE–SW. The bank is densely ringed with hawthorn, ash and brambles. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Saint James's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c. 1820 and extensively remodelled between 1929 and 1933. Comprising single-bay nave, shallow projecting chancel to the southeast and single-bay transepts to the southwest and northeast. Engaged battered towers on circular-plan with conical roofs over flanking entrance gable (northwest) and projecting single-bay gable-fronted porch to the centre of the entrance gable. Single-bay flat-roofed entrance porches to transepts, single-storey flat-roofed sacristy to the rear (southeast). Sprocketed slate roof with lead roof and cross motif finials to barrel-vaulted dormer head windows. Conical concrete roofs to bell towers. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered pronounced concave eaves course and smooth rendered plinth course. Battered pebbledashed walls to bell towers with square-headed louvered openings to second stages. Oculus openings to dormer windows to eaves having decorative stained glass. Pointed arch openings to nave and transepts with painted stone sills and timber Y-tracery, having paired pointed arch seven-over-four timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door openings to porches with double leaf timber battened doors. Carved marble altar and altar rail, with mosaic floor to altar area and decorative floor tiles to nave. Timber panelled galleries over nave and southwest transept, the former approached by timber staircase set in northeast bell tower. Figurative stained glass window to chancel gable. Set in own grounds and surrounded by graveyard (mainly to north) with collection of mainly upstanding nineteenth and twentieth century grave markers. Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage. Rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and wrought-iron gates to entrances. Located in an elevated position adjacent to crossroad junction. Located to the southeast of Ballinalee and to the southwest of Granard.

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Drummeel · An Droim Maol

Area

2,995,513 m² (299.55 ha, 740.21 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Drummeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drummeel electoral division: 129 people in 51 households; 85% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Breaghy, Castlebrock, Clooncoose, Corbeagh, Currygrane, France, Kilderreen, Listraghee

Placenames

Drummeel 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.