Drumruekill

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumruekill, from 18 m² to 165,167 m² (16.52 ha, 40.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Aug 2023Conditional

  (a) demolish existing non habitable dwelling house and decommission existing septic tank and percolation area; (b) construct a replacement storey and half bungalow type dwelling house on same footprint as the existing dwelling house, and (c)provide mechanical effluent treatment unit and percolation area, including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360065

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  (a) removal of roof structure and the addition of a first floor . (b) Internal modifications to include stairs. (c) Extension to the west and north of site. (d) Removal of shed and (e) External modifications including changes to the elevation

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2367

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 Drumruekill.

Recorded monuments

• LE023-030 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  Situated on low-lying ground sloping gently down to E and S, but surrounded by drumlins. A circular cairn (diam. 24m; H 0.4m at N to 1.6m at E) is covered in bushes with no visible kerbstones but it contains a central chamber (dims 1.3-1.7m x 0.5-0.8m) defined by two parallel sidestones aligned N-S. There is a large roofstone (dims 1.7m x 1.7m; T 0.25m) in position, but a quarry (dims 7-10m N-S; 5m E-W; D 0.8m) immediately N of the chamber might have destroyed a passage. 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

• LE027-135 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a slight S-facing slope and c. 20m N of an E-W section of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell canal. This is a grass-covered circular or D-shaped platform (diam. 34m N-S) defined by a scarp which is best preserved at N (H 0.7m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.4m). The monument is truncated by a N-S field bank at E and the original entrance is not identified. Archaeological testing (02E1228) immediately to the N produced no related material (Read 2004). 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 Amended: 24 September, 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumruekill · Droim Leamhchoille

Area

785,562 m² (78.56 ha, 194.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Keshcarrigan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Keshcarrigan electoral division: 618 people in 226 households; 71% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghakilmore, Aghnahoo, Drumaleague, Drumkeelan, Kilclarebeg, Kilclaremore, Lisconor, Loughconway

Placenames

Drumruekill 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.