Drumconny

113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumconny, from 197 m² to 231,028 m² (23.1 ha, 57.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 61 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 Drumconny 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumconny in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumconny.

Recorded monuments

• LE033-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin with a canalised SSE-NNW stream immediately to the E. This is a raised and grass-covered circular platform (diam. 30.2m E-W; 28.4m N-S; H 1.5m) with some trees defined by the lip of a bank (int. H 0.1-0.2m), a fosse (Wth of top 5.7-7.6m; Wth of base 2-3m; ext. D 0.7-1m) and an outer earthen bank (Wth of base 3-4.6m; 3m W - N to 8m at S; ext. H 0.7-1m), with slight traces of a second outer fosse at N. A gap in the outer bank at NW may be recent, and the original entrance is not identified. The outer bank at S is incorporated into a NE-SW field bank. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December, 2019

• LE033-051 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a hillock (dims c. 40m E-W; c. 35m N-S; H c. 4-6m) on the floor of a N-S valley, with a small canalised S-N stream c. 80m to the W. A stone with a rectangular cross-section (dims of base 1.2m x 0.2m) and a blunt pointed top (H 1.2m) is oriented NNE-SSW. About 10m S are five stones lying prone which are known locally as 'Finn McCool's Fingers'. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December, 2019

• LE033-052 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge. A small feature is depicted on the S side of an E-W drain only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Giant’s Grave’ and on the 1945 revision where it is described as a ‘Megalith’. Three slabs form a triangle (dims c. 3.4m N-S; c. 6m E-W) and may be the remains of a megalithic tomb. The N stone (dims 1.1m x 0.4m) is 3.7m from the S stone (dims 1.6m x 0.5m; H 0.45m), and a third prone slab is c. 5.5m W of the S stone. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 86) 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: 9 December, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumconny · Droim Connaidh

Area

1,930,954 m² (193.1 ha, 477.15 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Keeldra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Keeldra electoral division: 199 people in 75 households; 92% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonee, Drumgownagh, Drumharkan Glebe, Drummeen, Gortinure, Keeldra, Muckanagh, Mullynadrumman

Placenames

Drumconny 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.