Drumsillagh
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcondra, barony of Slane Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 34.9 ha
- 86 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,475 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsillagh, from 338 m² to 143,752 m² (14.38 ha, 35.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jun 2022Conditional
the construction of a bungalow style dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage system and form a new entrance from the public road
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22743
5 Aug 2021Refused
construction of a part two-storey, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage system and form a new entrance from the public road. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211517
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 Drumsillagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumsillagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumsillagh.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumsillagh.
- 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 Drumsillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Drumsillagh
- Area
- 349,143 m² (34.91 ha, 86.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcondra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Electoral division
- Drumcondra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcondra electoral division: 1,376 people in 491 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Birdhill, Drumcondra, Druminshin, Kilriffin, Loughbrackan
- Placenames
- Drumsillagh 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.