Drumashellig

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumashellig, from 64 m² to 379,535 m² (37.95 ha, 93.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumashellig 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.

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  renovate existing cottage including construction of 1.5 storey proposed extension to the rear, redesigned site entrance, domestic garage, new onsite treatment system/septic tank and percolation area and all associated ancillary works. We also intend to apply for retention permission for the demolition of the existing 6m2 extension to the rear of the cottage and removal of the cottage roof and internal walls and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2460162

• 19 Mar 2024N/a

  renovate existing cottage including construction of 1.5 storey proposed extension to the rear, redesigned site entrance, domestic garage and all associated ancillary works. Retention permission also sought for the demolition of the existing 6m2 extension to the rear of the cottage and removal of the cottage roof and internal walls and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460141

• 16 Jan 2024N/a

  renovate existing cottage including construction of 1.5 storey proposed extension to the rear, redesigned site entrance, domestic garage and all associated ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460011

• 9 May 2023Conditional

  renovate an existing derelict cottage, including roof replacement, the construction of a new single storey extension to the side, a new septic tank and percolation area, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 23141

• 18 Apr 2023N/a

  renovate an existing derelict cottage, including roof replacement, the construction of a new single storey extension to the side, a new septic tank and percolation area, and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23123

• 11 Apr 2023N/a

  renovate an existing derelict cottage, including roof replacement, the construction of a new single storey extension to the side, a new septic tank and percolation area, and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 23115

• 7 Dec 2022Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2260023

• 7 Dec 2022Conditional

  develop as follows: 1. retention permission for alterations to existing dwelling to include the conversion of attic space to use as habitable space, 3no. dormer type windows, 3no. velux type windows to roof, and the construction of a single storey rear extension. 2. Permission for the construction of an additional single storey rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2260024

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20117

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, use of existing entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19416

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and percolation area with new vehicular entrance and all associated site works subsequent to previously approved outline planning permission ref 17/627

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19374

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  construct dwelling house and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17626

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  construct dwelling house and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17627

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 Drumashellig.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumashellig.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Drumashellig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Drumashellig · Droim Seilge

Area

1,283,178 m² (128.32 ha, 317.08 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyroan, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Blandsfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Blandsfort electoral division: 338 people in 113 households; 96% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglishen, Ballymaddock, Ballypickas Lower or Bernardsgrove, Rahanavannagh, Ralish, Tullore

Placenames

Drumashellig 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.