Drumgoolan

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgoolan, from 7 m² to 392,476 m² (39.25 ha, 96.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Drumgoolan 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.

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  10 Year Planning Permission sought for solar PV development to be developed as an extension of the solar PV development permitted under Ref. No. 21/631 on a site with a total area of c.81.37ha and comprising: 1. Formation of a new entrance off the L5154 (Drumgoolan) to provide the main entrance to the proposed PV development and associated works; 2. Solar panels on ground mounted frames over an area of c.54.51ha, 30 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer units, a containerised switch gear unit, security fencing, CCTV system with pole mounted cameras and landscaping; 3. Underground grid connection cables connecting to the substation cable connection permitted under planning ref. no. 21/631 (and thereafter ultimately connecting to Louth(Monvallet) 275kv substation); 4. A temporary construction compound; and 5. All ancillary development works. The operational lifespan of the solar PV development will be 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany this application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22534

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 Drumgoolan.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-033 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1835 and 1911 'OS 6-inch' maps as 'Ultan's Well'. The OS Letters also refer to a well called Tobar Ultan. It is a large U-shaped pool (L 4m; Wth 3m; D 1.7m), cut into a slight slope of a ridge with a narrow trench leading into a nearby drain at W. Local tradition holds that the water can cure coughs. (ASI field notes, 1967). Also noted that the water was used for domestic purpose and that it prevented disease (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 665, 105). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 April 2012

• LH011-122 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.C.11) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• LH011-123 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.C.12) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch defined by two concentric fosses. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820. Pitched straw thatched roof, rendered central chimneystack. Lime-washed rendered walling, painted brick to door surround. Square-headed window openings, painted reveals and sills, containing replacement uPVC casement windows. Entrance door at porch containing uPVC replacement door. Paved stepped area to front bounded by ranch fencing. Corrugated metal sheeting, farm buildings to east.

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 Drumgoolan, 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 Drumgoolan.

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

Name

Drumgoolan · Droim Gualann

Area

1,079,985 m² (108 ha, 266.87 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Louth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,635 people lived in 574 households in the Louth electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Artoney, Drumgowna, Hoarstone, Muff, Priorstate, Ravanny, Toomes, Tullycahan

Placenames

Drumgoolan 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.