Drumsinnot

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsinnot, from 217 m² to 42,913 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Drumsinnot 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  The development consists of permission for the refurbishment of an existing single storey cottage, the demolition of existing porch and the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side, construction of new vehicular entrance southwards of the existing entrance, installation of new wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank, increase of plot size and formation of new native hedge boundary and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560658

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission for a dormer bungalow, detached garage, new site entrance onto public road & waste water treatment system with all associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 04/12/2020*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20430

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 Drumsinnot.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-124 Rock art
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Large, dome-shaped rock outcrop, on which there are at least ten different cup and ring motifs. These consist of two four-ringed, a two-ringed and six single-ringed motifs. One of the four-ringed motifs has at its centre several small cup marks, as in the sites at Carrickrobin (LH006-033002-) and Ballinloughan Rock 4 (LH006-119----). On a nearby extension of the same outcrop is a chequered pattern which can be paralleled at High Banks, Galloway (Morris 1979,112-13), and Lordenshaws, Northumberland (Hadingham 1974, 54-9). There is also at least one single cup and ring motif on this outcrop extension. (CLAJ 1981, 110)

• LH006-133 Rock art
  Description

  Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. A piece of rock outcrop (dims c. 1m x. c. 3m) has at least one motif of a cupmark in a double circle on its upper surface. It was first reported by Aoibheann Lambe. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 October,2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumsinnot, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumsinnot with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Drumsinnot · Droim Seanaid

Area

392,164 m² (39.22 ha, 96.91 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickalust, Gorteen, Killaconner, Lacknagreagh, Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield, Toprass

Placenames

Drumsinnot 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.