Drumellihy (Cunningham)
Drumellihy (Cunningham) is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacduane, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Droim Oilche (Cunningham).
Parcel 1448106
- Area
- 21,821 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Drumellihy (Cunningham)
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_220 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 372.2 ha
- 920 acres
- Land parcels
- 156
- registered freehold, median 7,275 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
156 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumellihy (Cunningham), from 201 m² to 316,499 m² (31.65 ha, 78.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumellihy (Cunningham) 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
28 Sept 2026N/a
to construct a livestock slatted unit and manure pit with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 26267
14 Jul 2025Conditional
to build a new house, install a waste water treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25229
5 Sept 2024Conditional
to construct dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area plus all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24286
13 Mar 2023Conditional
to upgrade and extend existing derelict house, to demolish shed and to install foul sewer system + percolation area
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360055
7 Feb 2023N/a
to extend existing dwelling house, to demolish shed and to install foul sewer system & percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2355
8 Nov 2022Conditional
to RETAIN existing rear extension as constructed and PERMISSION to construct new extension also to rear of existing dwelling with a private garage, decommission existing septic tank system and upgrade to a proprietary wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 221008
14 Jun 2022Conditional
to extend existing dwelling house and to install foul sewer system & percolation area
Permission · Clare County Council, 22522
31 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct a new one and a half storey dwelling house, install on-site water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22294
2 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21562
31 Mar 2021Conditional
to RETAIN extension to the existing dwelling house along with all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 21289
6 Nov 2017Conditional
to construct a private garage with all necessary ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17849
26 May 2017Conditional
to construct an entrance to existing forestry along with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17412
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumellihy (Cunningham).
Recorded monuments
- CL047-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL047-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL047-030 Quarry
Description
Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A small quarried area is hachured on the 1922 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and is hachured and named ‘Gravel pit (disused)’ on the OS 25-inch map. On inspection in 2002 it was found to be a disused quarry (34m N-S; 40 E-W; max. D 2.2m) cut into the W face of a ridge. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 December 2014
- CL047-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL047-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumellihy (Cunningham).
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumellihy (Cunningham), 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_248 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumellihy (Cunningham) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Drumellihy (Cunningham) · Droim Oilche (Cunningham)
- Area
- 3,722,242 m² (372.22 ha, 919.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacduane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Electoral division
- Drumellihy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 449 people lived in 174 households in the Drumellihy electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherfeenick South, Dangananella East, Drumellihy (Westby), Drumellihy (Westropp), Kilmacduane West, Mountrivers
- Placenames
- Drumellihy (Cunningham) 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.