Drumsleed
Drumsleed is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Droim Slaoid.
- Area
- 428.3 ha
- 1,058 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 23,072 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsleed, from 87 m² to 589,159 m² (58.92 ha, 145.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Drumsleed 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
21 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE ADN PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21532
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
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
Recorded monuments
- MA043-001 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumsleed.
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 Drumsleed, 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 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 Drumsleed.
- 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 Drumsleed with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Drumsleed · Droim Slaoid
- Area
- 4,283,004 m² (428.3 ha, 1,058.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Ballycroy North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 285 people lived in 110 households in the Ballycroy North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doona, Dooreel, Fahy, Knockmoyleen, Tallagh
- Placenames
- Drumsleed 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.