Knockdrummore

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockdrummore, from 2,555 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) to 45,164 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Knockdrummore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Knockdrummore 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 the townland of Knockdrummore.

Recorded monuments

• GA125-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in hilly pastureland. Marked as an oval enclosure (c. 35m ENE-WSW; c. 25m NE-SW) on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection in May 1983, apart from slight irregularities in the ground surface, no visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. Field boundaries clipped the monuement along the N and E sectors. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

• GA125-079 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 September 2015

• GA125-080 House - 18th/19th century
  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

• Cartron House, RIC barracks, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former police barracks, built c.1800, with lower mutiple-bay two-storey return to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks having stepped dressed limestone capping. Painted rendered walls with weather-hung slating to gables and to return. Square-headed widnow openings having tooled limestone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door, and overlight. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to east long wall of return, now converted to window. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey to south-east of courtyard, having pitched slate roof and cement rendered chimneystack, painted rendered walls and square-headed openings with stone sills.

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 Knockdrummore, 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 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 Knockdrummore.

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 Knockdrummore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockdrummore · Cnoc Droma Móir

Area

222,112 m² (22.21 ha, 54.89 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Marblehill, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Carrowroe, Cartron South, Clooneen, Loughpark, Marblehill, Rosseeshal

Placenames

Knockdrummore 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.