Drumgorey

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgorey, from 66 m² to 272,109 m² (27.21 ha, 67.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Drumgorey 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.

• 25 Jun 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing pig houses, associated buildings and slurry stores and construct a 960 sow integrated pig farm (birth to slaughter) consisting of seven pig houses, associated slurry tanks, a covered pig loading race, a feed mixing shed, a feed mill and workshop building, an electricity control building, a building with office, canteen, showers and WC, a waste water treatment system, and associated site works (OS Map Sheets 5691-D, 5762-B, National Grid Ref: 618800 609000). The site of the proposed development has an IPPC License Ref No. PO414-01. An Appropriate Assessment Screening and Natural Impact Statement Report and Environmental Impact Assessment Report are being submitted with this planning application.

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20394

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 Drumgorey.

Recorded monuments

• WA013-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 36.5m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank with stone-facing (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m), which is incorporated into a field bank N-E and reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m) elsewhere (downslope). There is no visible fosse or entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• , 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half-attic, dated 1876, on a corner site with segmental-headed carriageway, and seven-bay single-storey wing to south-west. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs over timber construction with clay ridge tiles, lime mortice, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, and remains of unpainted lime render over. Square-headed window openings with no sills, lintels, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed door openings (including to first floor side (north-east) elevation) with lintels, and timber boarded doors. Segmental-headed carriageway with squared rubble stone voussoirs, date stone/keystone, and painted replacement corrugated-iron door, c.1975. Road fronted on a corner site with grass verge to front.

• The Half-Way House, unknown, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey building, c.1840, possibly originally Bianconi Posting Station or Royal Irish Constabulary barracks and originally accommodating three separate three-bay two-storey units with two-bay two-storey side elevations. Now disused and partly derelict. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having replacement uPVC downpipe, c.1990. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with rendered quoins to ends. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and remains of 1/1 timber sash windows having timber boarded panels over. Square-headed door openings now boarded-up. Interior stripped with dividing walls, floors, and internal joinery removed, and plaster to coved ceiling mostly disintegrated (exposing construction underneath). Set back from road in shared grounds cut into sloping site.

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 Drumgorey, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Drumgorey.

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 Drumgorey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Drumgorey · Drom Guaire

Area

1,068,615 m² (106.86 ha, 264.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Graignagower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 201 households in the Graignagower electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigroe, Knockacoola, Knockaraha, Toorreagh

Placenames

Drumgorey 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.