Drumkeelan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumkeelan, from 294 m² to 160,399 m² (16.04 ha, 39.64 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 Drumkeelan 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.

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  To construct agricultural storage shed to provide slatted livestock area with underground storage tank, dry bedding area and feeding area. Provide concrete apron, construct a wall enclosure to provide agricultural open yard, provide concrete floor to complete yard area, connect to underground agricultural storage tank including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460264

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  construct (a) a 3 bay double slatted sheep shed with adjacent apron; )b) a 3 double loose house with adjoining apron that abuts the proposed apron of the proposed sheep shed; (c) an open sand arena and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19250

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 Drumkeelan.

Recorded monuments

• LE023-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a prominent drumlin and on the E side of a N-S road. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 25m N-S; 20.8m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; H 0.6m) with an external fosse (Wth of base 2.1m; D 0.25m) N-E. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at S and a N-S road bank at W so that only a quadrant survives (original diam. c. 40m). 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

• LE023-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the gentle S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 20m), defined by an intermittently visible earthen scarp (H c. 0.45m) NW-E-SW, which is truncated by a N-S field wall at W. There is no visible fosse and an 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1510 (ZIP).

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

Name

Drumkeelan · Droim Chaoláin

Area

809,978 m² (81 ha, 200.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,380 people lived in 500 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 60% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghakilmore, Aghnagollop, Aghnahoo, Drumruekill, Knocknasawna, Leitra, Lisbrockan, Lustia

Placenames

Drumkeelan 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.