Drumad

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumad, from 77 m² to 809,714 m² (80.97 ha, 200.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Drumad 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.

• 5 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission for the conversion of an existing detached domestic home office/playroom to dependent relative accommodation and associated site development woks

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2627

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  Permission for a change of a redesigned single storey dwelling from that approved under application 22700 and a re-positioned rainwater soakaway. All other aspects of the development to remain as previously approved

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560593

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for domestic home office / play room to rear of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560316

• 2 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission Consequent on the grant of outline permission, ref. no. 21/911 for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works **Signifcant further information received on 2.3.23 includes revised house design**

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22700

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission for the demolition of existing filling station workshop, retail and office and the construction of a new shop/café building with office and forecourt canopy, electric car charging ports with canopy and all associated site works. Renewable energy will be utilised in the form of solar panels and a domestic scale wind turbine

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211311

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21911

• 24 Feb 2021Refused

  Permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21179

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  Retention Permission of an existing development that consist of an existing 36 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority ref 12/33.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 20309

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  Retention Permission and Permission for development consisting of permission for alterations to existing entrance, for retention of existing double sided fuel pump, retention and replacement of existing temporary single sided fuel pump and retention of part retail use within office.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 19127

• 31 Jan 2019N/a

  Retention and Permission - Permission for alterations to existing entrance, for retention of existing double sided fuel pump, retention and replacement of existing temporary single sided fuel pump, and retention of part retail use within office.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 1952

• 15 Aug 2018Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION PARENT REF: (12/475) Permission consequent to the grant of outline permission planning reference no 09/724 for development that will consist of a dwelling house & associated site development works to include for replacement of an existing agricultural entrance.

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18652

• 15 Aug 2018Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION PARENT REF: (12/476) Permission consequent on grant of outline permission planning reference 09/725 for development that will consist of a dwelling house & associated site development works to include for replacement of an existing agricultural entrance.

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18653

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 Drumad.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-001 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on a slight hummock on the W slopes of valley. The souterrain consists of a drystone-built, slightly corbelled passage (L 19m, Wth c. 1.3m, H c. 1.7m) curving gently ENE-W. A creep (L 0.7m, Wth 0.7m, H 1.1m) in the middle of the N wall of the passage gives access to a sub-rectangular chamber (L 3.8m, Wth 2.1m, H 1.5m). (CLAJ 1909, 136; CLAJ 1979, 209-11; IFC Schools MSS 660, 14; OS Name Books, 1938-9, 44)

• LH004-155 Enclosure
  Description

  This monument is situated on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The name ‘Fort’ (in antiquarian typeface) is printed without any associated outline of a feature on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch sheet for Co. Armagh in the townland of Edenappa. Neither the name nor any feature was not recorded on the corresponding sheet to the west in Co. Louth. The remains are visible on aerial photos as a ploughed-out enclosure on the Armagh side of the border and as semi-circular area of scrub on the Louth side (estimate diam. c. 42m). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumad, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Drumad · Droim Fhada

Area

1,239,698 m² (123.97 ha, 306.34 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Ravensdale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,060 people lived in 362 households in the Ravensdale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickcarnan, Feede, Ravensdale Park

Placenames

Drumad 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.