Drumbrahade

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbrahade, from 152 m² to 94,471 m² (9.45 ha, 23.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Drumbrahade 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 Drumbrahade 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 Drumbrahade.

Recorded monuments

• LE018-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the W end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 22.2m NE-SW) defined by the grass-covered base of a earthen bank (at SE: Wth 1.55m) with internal and external stone cladding, which has been totally removed WSW-NE. The entrance (Wth 1.3m) is at ESE. 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

• LE018-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in a flat valley-bottom with a NW-SE branch of the Diffagher River c. 50m to the SW. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. c. 45m NW-SE; 42 NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank that survives (Wth 6.8m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) N-ESE and SE-SW (Wth 7.3m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m). It has an outer fosse which can be seen best (Wth of top 9m; Wth of base 4.8m; ext. D 0.1-0.3m) SE-SW and is incorporated into a NE-SW field drain E-SE. An outer bank (Wth c. 4.5m; ext. H 0.1m) is visible SE-S-NW. A NE-SW field bank and drain overlie the inner perimeter on the NW side, and features are less distinct to the NW of this. No entrance can be identified (max. ext. diam. c. 60m NE-SW). It is visible on the OSI series of aerial images (1995, 2000, 2005) and on Bing images (2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 28/04/2015

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 Drumbrahade.

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

Name

Drumbrahade · Droim Broith Éada

Area

493,527 m² (49.35 ha, 121.95 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmagrath, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Mahanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mahanagh electoral division: 346 people in 111 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corchuill Lower, Corchuill Upper, Corcormick, Corloughtomalty, Derrylustia, Lisacoghil, Lisnanaw

Placenames

Drumbrahade 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.