Drummahan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummahan, from 883 m² to 141,823 m² (14.18 ha, 35.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 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 Drummahan 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 May 2025Conditional

  (1). To retain and complete a partly constructed domestic dormer type house. (2). To upgrade the existing wastewater treatment facility to comply with current EPA COP regs.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560103

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  make the following alterations to previously approved planning application 2360074: 1. Amend the site boundary, 2. Amend the dwelling and garage designs, 3. Reposition the dwelling and garage and adjust the associated levels, 4. Amend the site layout plan together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560068

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  (1) construct a two story type domestic dwelling.(2). To construct a domestic garage. (3). To construct a new site entrance. (3). To construct a new waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360074

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  construction of dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and garage

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18219

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 Drummahan.

Recorded monuments

• LE006-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight E-W ridge on the floor of Glencar valley. Overgrown circular area (int. diam. 30m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m) which is separated by a fosse (Wth 3m) from an intermittently visible outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.65m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE006-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a SW-facing slope. It is visible on the OSI series of images (2000) and on Bing images (2013). This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 21.3m NW-SE; 19.7m NE-SW) that slopes down to the SW (H 1.8m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1m at SE to 0.3-0.5m normally) with slight hints of an external fosse (Wth c. 3m) visible as a berm or denser rush-growth. A slight dip in the perimeter (L 4m) at N may indicated the entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 July, 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drummahan, 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

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

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 Drummahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Drummahan · Droim Meathán

Area

989,695 m² (98.97 ha, 244.56 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glencar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

283 people lived in 101 households in the Glencar electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Diffreen, Dromore, Drummans, Gleneige, Gorteenaguinnell, Mulkaun, Raheenduff, Tawnamachugh

Placenames

Drummahan 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.