Drumsru

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsru, from 26 m² to 602,002 m² (60.2 ha, 148.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumsru 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.

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  RED III development will consist of a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and all associated works. This application involves the installation of solar PV over an approximate area of 140 hectares, including 30 no. transformers and 1 no. RMU. The proposed development will utilise 3 no. existing construction and operational entrances. The proposed development will utilise existing internal access tracks and will involve the construction of approximately 7km of new internal access tracks. The site is centred at X (ITM) 668919.6 and Y (ITM) 721696.8. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years, with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. The planning may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the planning authority on payment of the prescribed fee, €20, within the period of— (a) 5 weeks, or (b) 2 weeks, in the case of a planning application for small-scale solar energy equipment development or development that is the installation of a small-scale non-ground source heat pump, beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the planning authority in making a decision on the application. The planning authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions or may refuse to grant permission. For this application the submission period is 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660846

• 14 Jul 2026N/a

  The development will consist of single storey style dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new combined agricultural/domestic recessed entrance to replace an existing agricultural entrance, stable block containing 3no stables, Dungstead & holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660801

• 4 Jun 2026N/a

  RED III: a solar photovoltaic (PV) farm and all associated works. This application involves the installation of solar PV over an approximate area of 140 hectares, including 30 no. transformers and 1 no. RMU. The proposed development will utilise 3 no. existing construction and operational entrances. The proposed development will utilise existing internal access tracks and will involve the construction of approximately 7km of new internal access tracks. The site is centred at X (ITM) 668919.6 and Y (ITM) 721696.8. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years, with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660592

• 11 Aug 2025Refused

  for single storey style dwelling, wastewater treatment system, upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to combined agricultural/domestic recessed entrance & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560915

• 4 May 2018Refused

  The extraction of sand and gravel within a proposed extraction area (ca. 20 ha) above the water –table, processing (crushing, washing and screening) of aggregate and ancillary activities on an overall application site of ca. 30.7 hectares for a 20 year period. The proposed development will involve the extraction and progressive phased restoration of the site over its lifetime. Permission is also sought for the construction of : (1) an entrance from the L7004, (2) internal access routes, (3) passing bays on the local road bordering the Application Site to the east, (4) overburden storage and landscape screening areas/ mounds along the perimeter of the site, (5) workshop, (6) car parking, (7) bunded fuel tank, (8)refuelling hardstand and oil interceptor, (9) wheelwash, (10)weighbridge, (11) aggregate processing (crushing, washing and screening) plant and associated closed circuit silt disposal lagoons, (12)aggregate stockpile storage area, (13) security fencing, (14)shipping office, (15) site offices, canteen and welfare facilities and an (16) associated proprietary sewage effluent treatment system and percolation area. Permission is also sought for the demolition of a (17) farmhouse and associated farm buildings situated in the northern section of the Application Site. An Environmental Impact Statement (now referred to an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18530

• 4 Apr 2018N/a

  the extraction of sand and gravel within a proposed extraction area (ca. 20ha) above the water-table, processing (crushing, washing and screening) of aggregate and ancillary activities on an overall application site of ca. 30.7 hectares for a 20 year period. The proposed development will involve the extraction and progressive phased restoration of the site over its lifetime. Permission is also sought for the construction of: (1) an entrance from the L7004, (2) internal access routes, (3) passing bays on the local road bordering the Application Site to the east, (4) overburden storage and landscape screening areas / mounds along the perimeter of the site, (5) workshop, (6) car parking, (7) bunded fuel tank, (8) refuelling hardstand and oil interceptor, (9) wheelwash, (10) weighbridge, (11) aggregate processing (crushing, washing and screening) plant and associated closed circuit silt disposal lagoons, (12) aggregate stockpile storage area, (13) security fencing, (14) shipping office, (15) site offices, canteen and welfare facilities and an (16) associated proprietary sewage effluent treatment system and percolation area. Permission is also sought for the demolition of a (17) farmhouse and associated farm buildings situated in the northern section of the Application Site. An Environmental Impact Statement (now referred to an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18362

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD017-065 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 26m) visible on Google earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 28/06/2018 which shows cropmark of the enclosure based on information supplied by Anthony Murphy Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Anthony Murphy Date of upload: 20 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumsru, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumsru.

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.

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

Name

Drumsru

Area

1,413,506 m² (141.35 ha, 349.28 acres)

Civil parish

Feighcullen, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Cloncurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

490 people lived in 148 households in the Cloncurry electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncumber, Drumsru, Feighcullen

Placenames

Drumsru 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.