Drumakeenan
Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Droim Cianáin
- Area
- 302.5 ha
- 747 acres
- Land parcels
- 133
- registered freehold, median 5,102 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
133 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumakeenan, from 42 m² to 249,557 m² (24.96 ha, 61.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Drumakeenan 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
20 Jan 2026Conditional
Alterations To Existing House Including The Demolition Of Existing Chimneys, Extension To Existing House, Form New Shared Entrance, New Wastewater Treatment System And All Associated Site Works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660025
19 Dec 2025N/a
Extension To Existing House, Form New Shared Entrance, New Wastewater Treatment System And All Associated Site Works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560665
27 Apr 2022Refused
NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 22211
29 Mar 2022N/a
NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 22149
22 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21659
29 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21592
5 Aug 2021Conditional
NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21484
12 Jul 2021N/a
NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21426
25 Sept 2020Conditional
AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 20459
18 Feb 2020Conditional
A) EXTENSION TO FRONT PORCH OF EXISTING DWELLING B) EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING C) NEW DOUBLE GLAZED DOORS TO FRONT AND REAR ELEVATIONS D) TWO NUMBER ROOF WINDOWS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, ALONG WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO INTERIOR LAYOUT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR ALL THE ABOVE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2048
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumakeenan National School 002064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumakeenan, Eagle Hill And Perry's Mill 000900
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumakeenan.
Architectural heritage
- High Park, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with extensions and return to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and fanlight detail to overlight. Two-storey outbuilding to yard with random coursed walls and pitched slate roof. Limestone piers to road.
- Hillsborough Corn Mills, mill (water), 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Pair of detached five-bay five-storey mills, built c.1840. In roofless condition. Random coursed limestone and sandstone walls with remains of roughcast render. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick reveals and limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with yellow brick reveals. Derelict single- and two-storey outbuildings to yard.
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 moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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_1702 (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 Drumakeenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Drumakeenan · Droim Cianáin
- Area
- 3,024,818 m² (302.48 ha, 747.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Electoral division
- Ettagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ettagh electoral division: 515 people in 170 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadouglas, Ballylonnan, Clybanane (Co. Tipperary), Conicker, Glasderry Beg, Glasderry More, Knocknamase or Goldengrove, Lisnageeragh, Loughanavatta (Co. Tipperary), Millpark (Co. Tipperary), Moynure
- Placenames
- Drumakeenan 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.