Drumbranned

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbranned, from 1,312 m² to 101,143 m² (10.11 ha, 24.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Drumbranned 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 Drumbranned 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 Drumbranned.

Recorded monuments

• LE027-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a NW-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims. 29m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.45m; int. H 0.35-0.45m; ext. H 1.6-2.15m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.7m) at NE, and an outer fosse (Wth 4m; ext. D 1.4m) which has been destroyed at NE by a trackway and at SW by a NW-SE field bank. There are traces of an outer bank surviving at SE (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) and NW. A hollow (L 11m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.85m) in the NW quadrant may be a collapsed souterrain, although no stones are visible. 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

• LE027-055001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located on a NW-facing slope in an undulating landscape. A grass-covered hollow (L 11m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.85m) in the NW quadrant of rath (LE027-055----) may be a collapsed souterrain, although no stones are visible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 8 March, 2017

• LE028-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 31m E-W; 16m N-S) defined by a grass and scrub-covered scarp (H 0.45m) with a fosse (Wth 1.7m) indicated by a band of rushes W-N-E. The monument is truncated by a NE-SW road at S, and the original entrance is not evident. 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 Drumbranned.

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 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 Drumbranned.

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

Name

Drumbranned · Droim Branaid

Area

589,446 m² (58.94 ha, 145.66 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

Drumgownagh, Drumliffin Glebe, Keonbrook, Kilclarebeg, Kilclaremore, Kiltynashinnagh

Placenames

Drumbranned 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.