Drumharsna North

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumharsna North, from 8 m² to 111,487 m² (11.15 ha, 27.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Drumharsna North 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  to construct an independent living unit attached to existing dwellinghouse and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660297

• 24 Sept 2023Refused

  for 10-years for the development of a solar farm on a site of 125 hectares consisting of the following: 570,952sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 18 hardstanding locations, with each containing 3no. electrical skids (each hardstanding location will be surrounded by a palisade fence & gates); underground power & communications cables & ducts, including cabling along the L-8560, L-4506, L-4505 & R347 public roads; 4 joint bays; new internal access tracks; a new access from the R347 public road; upgrade to existing access points along the L-4505 and R347 public roads; access gates; landscaping & biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing & all associated ancillary development, site works & services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361143

• 8 Dec 2022Conditional

  for extensions to existing dwelling house and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 93.97sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261221

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 Drumharsna North.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-108 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight rise in an area of reclaimed pastureland and outcropping limestone. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). No visible surface trace survived in the early 1950s when McCaffrey (1952, 270, no. 25a) surveyed the area. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 May 2018

• GA113-109 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 270-71, no. 25b) as a 'Stone fort (?)' consisting of a 'semi-circular wall, field-fences and two structures' enclosed by a cashel wall which was subcircular in plan (c. 37m by c. 32m). There was an 'entrance [Wth c. 4.6m] on northeast side', though on his plan this is marked at NW. The 'two structures' (c. 12m by 5m and c. 8m by 5m), rectangular in plan, are shown in S half of the interior, separated by a curving wall. They may be the remains of house sites. A possible annexe is indicated on the plan at NW. Due to field clearance, no visible surface trace of the cashel or its associated features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 August 2017

• GA113-216 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland sloping to the S. This possible enclosure (c. 90m ENE-WSW) is visible on Google Earth imagery which was taken in 2011 (Google 2018). It is cut from ENE to WSW by the road from Ardrahan to Kinvarra. To the N of the road it is indicated from roughly W through N to ENE by a band of darker vegetation growth in the field. It is not obvious in the field to the S of the road. The band of vegetation may indicate the line of a fosse. It is not visible at ground level. The image was brought to our attention by Mr. Z. Silke. A possible cashel (GA113-108----) lay c. 110m to the SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 May 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumharsna North, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumharsna North · Droim Tharsna Thuaidh

Area

512,828 m² (51.28 ha, 126.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Cahermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

620 people lived in 198 households in the Cahermore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowgarriff North, Carrowgarriff South, Drumharsna South, Killeenhugh, Owenbristy

Placenames

Drumharsna North 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.