Drumgur
Townland in the civil parish of Louth, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Droim gCorr
- Area
- 35.5 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 5,132 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgur, from 126 m² to 60,519 m² (6.05 ha, 14.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumgur 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
7 Jul 2026N/a
Retention permission for a single storey detached prefabricated building containing a home gym, stores and home office areas which are ancillary to the use of the existing dwelling house, retention of a commercial store/shed, retention of a domestic garage / car port with all associated site development works. Full permission for new soakaways with all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660447
25 Jun 2026N/a
Retention permission for a single storey detached prefabricated building containing a home gym, stores and home office areas which are ancillary to the use of the existing dwelling house, retention of a commercial store/shed, retention of a domestic garage/car port with all associated site development works. Full permission for new soakaways with all associated site development works
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660421
24 Nov 2025N/a
Permission to demolish side shed to existing dwelling and replace same with new residential extension, new rear and west extensions to house, alterations to existing house, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, revised site boundaries
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560748
14 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for a bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 24177
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 Drumgur.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumgur.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgur.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2738 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumgur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Drumgur · Droim gCorr
- Area
- 354,877 m² (35.49 ha, 87.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Louth, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Killanny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killanny electoral division: 922 people in 291 households; 90% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghanmoney, Coolreagh (Co. Monaghan), Corcreeghagh, Edenaquin, Essexford, Lannat, Stradeen (Co. Monaghan)
- Placenames
- Drumgur 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.