Drumany (O'Brien)

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumany (O'Brien), from 169 m² to 71,454 m² (7.15 ha, 17.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Drumany (O'Brien) 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.

• 20 Nov 2024N/a

  full planning permission for the following: 1. To construct a story and a half type domestic dwelling. 2. To construct a domestic garage. 3. To construct a new site entrance. 4. To construct a wastewater treatment system to current EPA code of practice, and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460242

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  retain alterations to development previously approved and constructed under planning reference 08/181 which includes (a) retain additional floor area to as built domestic garage together with alterations to plans/elevations (b) retain as built lean-to domestic storage shed and associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2360007

• 26 Nov 2018Conditional

  (1) demolition of existing single storey dwelling on site (2) its replacement with a new single storey dwelling house (3) new waste water treatment system to replace existing system (4) new vehicular entrance and piers together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18261

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 Drumany (O'Brien).

Recorded monuments

• LE024-023001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position near a stream. This is a masonry corbelled structure (ext. diam. 2.15m; ext. H 1.6m) which contains a circular chamber and water-filled depression (diam. 0.77m) with a doorway to the W. There is a record of a possible bullaun stone with two basins (Blaney 1944, file no. 136) which could not be found in 1991. Coolkill church (LE024-0024001-) is c. 250m to the NE. 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

• LE024-023002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  There is a record of a possible bullaun stone with two basins (Blaney 1944) at the holy well (LE024-023001-), but it was not found in 1991. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 January, 2017

• LE024-026 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Located on a slight rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape. Three massive uprights form a roofless, overgrown, wedge-shaped chamber (int. dims 2.7m E-W; 1.4m N-S at E to 2.1m N-S at W; max. H 1.2m). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 71) See the attached archival view taken from the E in 1935. 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE024-027 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Two portal-stones, a sillstone, and two sidestones form a rectangular chamber (int. dims 2.4m x 1.95m; H 2.15m) facing W which is incorporated into a NE-SW field bank. The S sidestone has fallen inwards and the single roofstone (dims 2.2m x 1.8m; T 0.3m) has slipped to the SE. The stones are situated on a low platform (diam. 40m; H 1m), although no cairn material can be seen. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 70-71) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumany (O'Brien).

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 Drumany (O'Brien).

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 Drumany (O'Brien) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Drumany (O'Brien) · Droim Eanaigh (O'Brien)

Area

506,955 m² (50.7 ha, 125.27 acres)

Civil parish

Fenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Castlefore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlefore electoral division: 237 people in 89 households; 89% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Branra, Churchfield, Corrabeagh, Corragoly, Derrinkip, Drumany (Tenants), Drumroosk North, Kiltyfinnan

Placenames

Drumany (O'Brien) 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.