Drumroe

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumroe, from 55 m² to 359,890 m² (35.99 ha, 88.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumroe 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.

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  THE CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING FILE REFERENCE 18/241

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2022

• 6 Jun 2018Conditional

  A STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, ENTRANCE, GARAGE AND PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED BED POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18241

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumroe.

Recorded monuments

• OF047-009 Church
  Description

  Situated on top of high ground in upland area with river and Moatquarter motte in Co. Tipperary to N of church. Long rectangular church (ext. dims. 27.5m N-S; 9.1m E-W; wall T 1m) built with roughly coursed limestone and sandstone rubble with base batter visible on rebuilt N wall. The N wall has been recently rebuilt by local people with the arch of a late medieval door cemented into base of wall and a hanging eye also cemented into the W end of the N wall. There is a reconstructed narrow slit window at the E end of the N wall. A single splay of a window survives at the E end of the S wall. No other features visible. The church is located in the N sector of a large graveyard (OF047-009001-) containing 18th/19th-century headstones. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF047-009001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on top of high ground in upland area with river and moatquarter motte in Co. tipperary to N of church and graveyard. Long rectangular church (OF047-009----) built with roughly coursed limestone and sandstone rubble with base batter visible on rebuilt N wall. The church is located in the N sector of a large graveyard containing 18th/19th-century headstones. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF047-009002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Small roughly D-shaped sandstone bullaun (dims. 0.32m x 0.3m) with small circular depression (diam. 0.12m) located close to W wall of graveyard (OF047-009001-) and SW of medieval church ruins (OF047-009----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 07 October 2013

• OF047-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on NE facing slope of rising ground in upland area. Circular area (diam 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; ext. H max. 2m; int. H 0.5m), external fosse (Wth 3m) which is not visible at NE. Modern field fence encloses site from S to W. Stone lined entrance gap (Wth 3m) to E. Interior of site slopes from S to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF047-018 Field boundary
  Description

  The N end of a possible enclosure (ringfort?) enters the site. The converging ditches do not join but form a type of staggered entrance along a flattish N side. The ditches are around 1.5m wide max. and would form an enclosure of perhaps 20m wide that enters the site by around 10m. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF047-018001 House - Bronze Age
  Description

  Phase 2 excavations by John Tierney of Eachtra Archaeological Projects under licence No. E3773 along 17.1km (Contact 1) of the 35km N7 Castletown to Nenagh (Derrinsallagh to Ballintotty) national road scheme were commissioned by Laois County Council and the National Roads Authority. Contract 1 comprises the western half of the scheme and runs from Clashnevin to Castelroan, passing along the Tipperary North and Offaly county border regions. Six areas of archaeology were uncovered during Contract 1 trial-trench testing. Drumroe 1, Area 6.4, was originally tested under licence E3376 (see No. 1661 below) in 2007. The excavated remains comprised a Bronze Age house, a group of pits, a number of medieval field boundaries (OF047-018----) and modern field boundaries. The area of excavation measured 35m north–south by 110m. The Bronze Age house was located at the eastern end of the site. Nine ditches and field boundaries were recorded in the area of the excavation. One of the boundaries was a possible medieval field boundary which measured 0.89–1.3m in width and 0.32–0.5m in depth. It was c. 50m long, extending beyond the area of the excavation to the west, and it was aligned east–west. An entrance was located roughly at the centre of the excavated portion of the ditch. This was c. 1m wide, located between two ditch terminals. The entrance between the two terminals did not follow a straight line but was staggered, and the pathway between the ditch terminals zigzagged slightly. This may have ensured that animals stayed inside the field or enclosure that was surrounded by this boundary. Most later field boundaries excavated at the site were aligned north–south. One of these, a 19th-century field boundary, was located at the eastern end of the site. A pit, a post-hole and a drain were cut into the base of this ditch (Bennett 2010, 401-02). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumroe.

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).

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, 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 Drumroe.

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.

No address of the register names Drumroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Drumroe · An Droim Rua

Area

1,213,712 m² (121.37 ha, 299.91 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownely, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Dunkerrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunkerrin electoral division: 385 people in 131 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Busherstown, Crumlin Big (Co. Tipperary), Crumlin Little (Co. Tipperary), Derrycallaghan (Co. Tipperary), Drumbaun (Co. Tipperary), Lisduff (Co. Tipperary), Moatquarter (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Drumroe 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.