# Drumroe, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Castletownely, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Droim Rua.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,213,712 m² (121.37 ha, 299.91 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Castletownely, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/castletownely.md
- Barony: Clonlisk
- Electoral division: Dunkerrin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 385 people lived in 131 households in the Dunkerrin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41818
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180630
- Centre: latitude 52.883016, longitude -7.923578 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumroe, from 55 m² to 359,890 m² (35.99 ha, 88.93 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 4646293: 359,890 m² (35.99 ha, 88.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646293.md
- Parcel 269676: 306,425 m² (30.64 ha, 75.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269676.md
- Parcel 268777: 165,134 m² (16.51 ha, 40.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268777.md
- Parcel 282103: 100,387 m² (10.04 ha, 24.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282103.md
- Parcel 301102: 70,501 m² (7.05 ha, 17.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301102.md
- Parcel 297899: 46,321 m² (4.63 ha, 11.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/297899.md
- Parcel 4646298: 36,259 m² (3.63 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646298.md
- Parcel 279936: 17,276 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279936.md
- Parcel 310412: 5,220 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310412.md
- Parcel 5508511: 4,518 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5508511.md
- Parcel 5579378: 4,257 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5579378.md
- Parcel 4331944: 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4331944.md
- Parcel 5936985: 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5936985.md
- Parcel 4711427: 3,414 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4711427.md
- Parcel 287900: 2,977 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287900.md
- Parcel 5201049: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5201049.md
- Parcel 268778: 2,231 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268778.md
- Parcel 5201072: 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5201072.md
- Parcel 275190: 2,019 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275190.md
- Parcel 5508481: 1,947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5508481.md
- Parcel 5201070: 168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5201070.md
- Parcel 4646305: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4646305.md
- Parcel 5201071: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5201071.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 30 Jan 2020, Offaly County Council 2022: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING FILE REFERENCE 18/241. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2022/0
- 6 Jun 2018, Offaly County Council 18241: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. A STOREY AND A HALF STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, ENTRANCE, GARAGE AND PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RAISED BED POLISHING FILTER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18241/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF047-009: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF047-009----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF047-009001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF047-009002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF047-014----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF047-018----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF047-018001-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumroe, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drumroe.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drumroe.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drumroe.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Drumroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Busherstown: https://everytownland.com/offaly/busherstown.md
- Crumlin Big (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/crumlin-big.md
- Crumlin Little (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/crumlin-little.md
- Derrycallaghan (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/derrycallaghan.md
- Drumbaun (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/drumbaun-211273.md
- Lisduff (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/lisduff-212252.md
- Moatquarter (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/moatquarter-212458.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/drumroe
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/drumroe