# Drumad, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymascanlan, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth; in Irish Droim Fhada. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,239,698 m² (123.97 ha, 306.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymascanlan, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/ballymascanlan.md - Barony: Dundalk Lower - Electoral division: Ravensdale, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33940 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140230 - Centre: latitude 54.084333, longitude -6.35929 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumad, from 77 m² to 809,714 m² (80.97 ha, 200.08 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1093500: 809,714 m² (80.97 ha, 200.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093500.md - Parcel 5100252: 57,179 m² (5.72 ha, 14.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5100252.md - Parcel 1128306: 22,071 m² (2.21 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1128306.md - Parcel 1123270: 16,397 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123270.md - Parcel 1131428: 13,995 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131428.md - Parcel 1122162: 8,511 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1122162.md - Parcel 2763058: 4,934 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2763058.md - Parcel 2678195: 4,614 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2678195.md - Parcel 5093778: 3,741 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5093778.md - Parcel 2692067: 2,667 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2692067.md - Parcel 1095671: 1,643 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1095671.md - Parcel 1096519: 1,461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096519.md - Parcel 1121998: 1,432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121998.md - Parcel 1095287: 799 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1095287.md - Parcel 1122541: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1122541.md - Parcel 2721541: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2721541.md - Parcel 5180120: 401 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5180120.md - Parcel 1122981: 344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1122981.md - Parcel 2721544: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2721544.md - Parcel 2721547: 77 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2721547.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 12 applications, newest first. - 5 Mar 2026, Louth County Council 2627: Conditional. Permission. Permission for the conversion of an existing detached domestic home office/playroom to dependent relative accommodation and associated site development woks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2627/0 - 18 Sept 2025, Louth County Council 2560593: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560593/0 - 29 May 2025, Louth County Council 2560316: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Retention permission for domestic home office / play room to rear of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560316/0 - 2 Sept 2022, Louth County Council 22700: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. 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**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22700/0 - 26 Oct 2021, Louth County Council 211311: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/211311/0 - 20 Jul 2021, Louth County Council 21911: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21911/0 - 24 Feb 2021, Louth County Council 21179: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21179/0 - 30 Apr 2020, Louth County Council 20309: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20309/0 - 22 Feb 2019, Louth County Council 19127: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19127/0 - 31 Jan 2019, Louth County Council 1952: N/a. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/1952/0 - 15 Aug 2018, Louth County Council 18652: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18652/0 - 15 Aug 2018, Louth County Council 18653: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18653/0 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 Drumad. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH004-001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH004-001----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH004-155----. 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 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 Drumad. ## 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 Drumad, about 1 in 5 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 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 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/louth/drumad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/drumad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/drumad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrickcarnan: https://everytownland.com/louth/carrickcarnan.md - Feede: https://everytownland.com/louth/feede.md - Ravensdale Park: https://everytownland.com/louth/ravensdale-park.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/louth/drumad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/drumad