Drumahaire

299 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumahaire, from 3 m² to 34,199 m² (3.42 ha, 8.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 269 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism Related Development (Tourism and related)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Enterprise & Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE014-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a small E-W drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 35m E-W; 31.6m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m at S to 1.5m at N), with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 6m; D 0.1m) at E and a berm (Wth 3.5-5m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified, although there is a dip in the perimeter (Wth c. 8m) at S, and there is a shallow hollow (diam. 8-9m; D 0.3m) in the NE quadrant. New houses and their service road are c. 10m outside the perimeter of the monument E-S-SW, but archaeological testing (03E0148) prior to their construction produced no related material (Timoney 2006). 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

• LE014-008001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Located on a high bluff overlooking the twisting gorge of this SE-NE section of the River Bonet, with the stream c. 100m to the S and c. 120m to the W. The house is at the S end of Dromahair village and c. 60m N of the O’Rourke castle (LE014-009----). In 1626 George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham and a favourite of King James I, received a grant of over 11,000 acres as the Manor of Dromahaire. In 1628 he granted it to his half-brother William, who was obliged to build a house ’60 feet by 24 feet by 32 feet high’ together with a bawn ‘400 feet around’ within four years. William died in 1629, but the obligation was adequately fulfilled with this house (M'Parlan 1802, 87-8; Mac an Ghalloglaigh 1971, 248). The house was held by William's son George in 1641, but it does not seem to have suffered during the rebellion. It may have been occupied into the nineteenth century when the present house was built just to the S. By that time the estate had passed, probably through marriage, to the Fox Lane family, who had Yorkshire connections (Lewis 1837, 1, 503). The house is a three storey U-shaped structure (ext. dims 20.85m NW-SE; 16.15m NE-SW) with attics and possibly a basement, evident as the tops of windows beneath ground level on the destroyed SW wall. It is built around three sides of a court (dims 7.3m NW-SE; c. 5m NE-SW) that is open to the NE but the court’s inner angles are taken into the house as passages and the housing of a newel stairs. The main gallery is on the SW side and a strong wall (T c. 2m) separates this from the N and E wings. The house is built as a unit, of coursed limestone and sandstone masonry with dressed quoins, and it survives complete, except for the SW-facing or front wall. The windows are almost all two or three-light rectangular openings with square hood-mouldings where they survive, and there is a string-course above the first floor externally. Plaster adheres to the inner faces of the walls in places, and seven chimney stacks rise above gable end-walls, some with string-courses and diamond-shaped flues. Although the original grand entrance does not survive, there are three subsidiary doorways on the ground floor: at the S end of the NW wall; at the S angle of the court, which may be inserted; and a round-headed doorway from the court to the N wing (int. dims 4.7m NW-SE; 4.7m NE-SW) which was the kitchen as it has a large fireplace, an oven and a lintelled larder (dims 1.45m x 1.1m; H 1.65m), all on the SW wall. However, this kitchen does not communicate directly with the rest of the house at this level, but instead a wooden stairs rose up the NE and NW walls to the upper floors of the N wing and this may have been a servants’ stairs. Both wings have beam-holes in the NW and SE walls and joist-holes in the NE and SW walls to support the ceilings at all the floors where it can be discerned. The principal gallery (int. dims 18.3m NW-SE; 7.5m NE-SW) on the SW side of the house has no surviving features except a round-headed doorway (Wth 1.02m; H 1.7m) in limestone and a two-light window in the NW wall, and a flat-arched fireplace (Wth 2.2m; H 1.3m) and a large cupboard on the NE wall. The SE end is separated off as a small room (int. dims c. 7m NE-SW; 2.85m NW-SE) with a double-light window in the SE wall, and a destroyed window on the SW wall. The principal feature of this room is a large round-backed fireplace in the NE wall, and it may have served as a warming room. A narrow passage (Wth 0.5m) that has an added brick skin leads to the E wing (int. dims 4.7m NW-SE; 4.65m NE-SW), which has a fireplace on the SW wall and a window in the SE. There was a narrow (int. diam. 1.8m) newel stairs, which may have been wooden and is now removed, off this passage and a doorway, modernised with brick, leads from the stairs to the court. There are fireplaces in the NE walls of both wings at the first floor, but the only windows of the chambers in the wings have two lights and are on the walls opposite the court. Passages communicate with the main gallery at the SW side of the house, which has a three-light and a two-light window in the NW wall at different levels, indicating that the main staircase of the house was here. Apart from doorways (two at N, one at E, all wood-lintelled) to the wings the gallery has a central, highly decorated fireplace on the NE wall, together with a three-light window and small fireplace on the SE wall. At the second floor there are fireplaces in the NE walls of the two wings and two-light windows on the walls opposite the court, while the N wing also has a small annexe with a single small window on the NW wall. The main gallery has a two-light window and a small fireplace in the SE wall and there are two twin-light windows at different levels of the stairs on the NW wall, together with a small fireplace. The ceiling of the gallery at the first floor was supported on a recessed ledge of the NE wall and with joists set into the NW and SE walls. At the attic level there are gables with chimney stacks on the NE walls of the wings and on the NW and SE walls of the gallery, but in addition three chimney stacks on the NE wall of the gallery suggest that there may have been three dormer windows on the vanished SW wall. The chimney stacks generally have two flues and one or two string-courses externally. Only the gables of the wings have small windows, one on the N and two on the E, and there is one fireplace in the NW wall of the gallery. The house is towards the NE end of a bawn (int. dims 48m NE-SW; 34.7m NW-SE) but is not attached to the bawn wall (H 2-3m; T c. 1m) at any point. The bawn wall only survives on the NE side and partly on the NW and SE and as a wall footing on the SW side. Three gun-loops in small rectangular embrasures (Wth 0.55m; H 0.6m; D 0.8m) with smaller external openings can be seen on the NE wall and there are seven on the NW but a wall-walk, or steps for one, do not survive at any point. There is a small round-headed doorway (Wth 0.85m) in the NW bawn wall, which might be original, as well as an inserted gateway and doorway. The original gatehouse (ext. dims 11.6m plus NE-SW; c. 6.5m NW-SE) was at the S end of the NW wall and offset to the W. Its only substantial wall at SW (T 1.6m; H c. 3m) has a narrow entrance passage (Wth 0.7m) with a centrally placed portcullis-niche and a hanging eye and spud-stone internally for a door that was secured by three metal hoops on the other side. The NW wall has five gun-loops but there is no indication that there was ever a vaulted passage or upper level. The house is illustrated by Grose (1791, vol. 2, 55-6, Pl. 32), who shows that the bawn wall was not crenelated. Other than a drain associated with the house, no features were recorded in archaeological testing (94E0046) to the E of the court (Halpin 1995). 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. See the attached views from NW _1; view from Grose _2; and archival view from the S in 1950 _3 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 1 September 2016

• LE014-008002 Bawn
  Description

  Located on a high bluff overlooking the twisting gorge of this SE-NE section of the River Bonet, with the stream c. 100m to the S and c. 120m to the W. The fortified house and bawn are at the S end of Dromahair village and c. 60m N of the O’Rourke castle (LE014-009----). The house (LE014-008001-) is towards the NE end of a bawn (int. dims 48m NE-SW; 34.7m NW-SE) but is not attached to the bawn wall (H 2-3m; T c. 1m) at any point. The bawn wall only survives on the NE side and partly on the NW and SE and as a wall footing on the SW side. Three gun-loops in small rectangular embrasures (Wth 0.55m; H 0.6m; D 0.8m) with smaller external openings can be seen on the NE wall and there are seven on the NW but a wall-walk, or steps for one, do not survive at any point. There is a small round-headed doorway (Wth 0.85m) in the NW bawn wall, which might be original, as well as an inserted gateway and doorway. The original gatehouse (LE014-008003-) was at the S end of the NW wall and offset to the W. The house is illustrated by Grose (1791, vol. 2, 55-6, Pl. 32), who shows that the bawn wall was not crenelated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 1 September, 2016

• LE014-008003 Gateway
  Description

  Located on a high bluff overlooking the twisting gorge of this SE-NE section of the River Bonet, with the stream c. 100m to the S and c. 120m to the W. The fortified house (LE014-008001-) is towards the NE end of the bawn (LE014-008002-) but is not attached to the bawn wall at any point. The original gatehouse (ext. dims 11.6m plus NE-SW; c. 6.5m NW-SE) was at the S end of the NW bawn wall and offset to the W. Its only substantial wall at SW (T 1.6m; H c. 3m) has a narrow entrance passage (Wth 0.7m) with a centrally placed portcullis-niche and a hanging eye and spud-stone internally for a door that was secured by three metal hoops on the other side. The NW wall has five gun-loops but there is no indication that there was ever a vaulted passage or upper level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 1 September, 2016

• LE014-008004 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a high bluff overlooking the Bonet River near the gatehouse of the fortified house (LE014-008001-), and castle (LE014-009---), but which is probably a modern feature. It is a limestone upright (dims 0.5m x 0.2m; H 1.7m) with solution holes and a pointed top oriented NE-SW. 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

• LE014-009 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  Situated on a high bluff overlooking a gorge of the Bonet River which is immediately to the S, and it is at the S end of Dromahaire village. This is a hall-castle, possibly of 13th-century date, which was known as O’Rourke’s Hall, and it remained a stronghold of the O'Rourkes until the 17th century. The castle may have been built by William Gorm de Lacy who undertook in 1221 to build three stone castles in Breifne for Philip de Angulo (Manning 1989-90, 22). Alternatively it might have been built by the O’Rourkes themselves after the Battle of Magh Sleacht in 1256 when they regained control of west Breifne (Co. Leitrim) and moved their centre of power into the fastness of north Leitrim. However, it is likely to date to a later period, perhaps the fifteenth or sixteenth century, suggested by the punch dressing used on some of the stonework (O'Conor and Fredengren 2019, 82-4; McDermott 2019, 111-13), unless this is repair. Despite the advantage of isolation Sir Richard Bingham, Governor of Connaught, is said to have launched a surprise attack on Dromahaire in 1588 (Grose 1791, 2, 92). The surviving remains are a single-storey rectangular structure (int. dims 21.5m NE-SW; 7.38m NW-SE) built of mortared limestone walls (Wth 1.5-2m; H 5-6m), the stone of which is probably derived from quarries immediately adjacent to the SE and NW. The walls are ivy-covered but there were four round-headed window embrasures in each long wall as illustrated by Grose (ibid. 2, Pl. 35), all of which are now robbed-out. There is a destroyed doorway (Wth 1.3m) at the S end of the NW wall, which is approached from the SW by an unexcavated shelf of rock (Wth c. 2m), and this is probably the original entrance. A destroyed doorway (Wth 1.03m) with two steps down inside it at the E end of the NE wall might be an inserted feature. There is no indication of an upper storey. There is a modern standing stone (LE014-008004-) c. 100m to N, and the Villiers fortified house (LE014-008001-) is c. 60m to the N. (Harbison 2002, 43-7) 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 revised upload: 30 December 2019 O’Conor, K. and Fredengren, C. 2019 Medieval settlement in Leitrim, c. 1169-c. 1380. in In Kelly, L. and Scott, B. Leitrim: History and Society, 79-101. Dublin, Geography Publications

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former water mill complex on the Bonet River, built c.1800, now used as a National Monuments works depot. Detached two-pile seven-bay two-storey former corn mill with tower at north end and nineteenth- and twentieth-century extensions to rear. Hipped slate M-profile roof. Squared random coursed limestone walls with tooled quoins. Block-and-start window surrounds with replacement timber windows. Two segmental-headed carriage arches to facade, rebuilt c.1990. Integral carriage arch to north with cut stone segmental arch. Rear extension is two-storey with coursed random stone walls and hipped slated roof. Mill stones to exterior. Roughcast rendered modern outbuilding and limestone outbuildings to north-east. Modern building to south. Coursed random stone boundary wall with cast-iron gates and railings.

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, comprising a plain cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, a fluted upper section and fluted domed cap with pointed finial. Decorative spout and with manufacturer's mark on shaft with lion motif and cow's tail pumping arm with fluted knob. Located at junction of two roads.

• Abbey View, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1880, on a U-plan with two-storey return and modern porch. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Smooth and roughcast rendered walls with stucco quoins and plinth. Replacement uPVC windows and stone sills. Outbuilding to rear. Site enclosed by random sandstone walls. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to street with gate.

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church, built 1889 to a design by Andrew Scott, with half-octagonal chancel, porches and sacristy to five-bay nave. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron finial, ashlar bellcote and stone corbels supporting cast-iron rainwater goods. Rock-faced Ballisadore limestone walls with plinths and buttresses. Date plaque above porch door. Carved stone surrounds to windows and doors. Ogee-headed lancet windows to nave and double traceried windows in pointed openings to chancel, all with stained glass. Paired ogee windows to sacristy. Pointed-arch doorway in west gable with hood moulding, relieving arch of alternate smooth and rock-faced voussoirs. Timber and glazed double door with steps. Cast-iron finial and cut stone relieving arch above shouldered-arch opening with glazed timber door. Grave markers to graveyard. Site bounded by roughly dressed limestone walls.

• Milestone/milepost, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Painted carved stone milestone, erected c.1850, with inscriptions indicating distances to 'D.Keeran 9 Carrick 27 Sligo 11 M.Hamilton 9'. Set against garden wall of house.

• House, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of three two- and three-bay single-storey houses, built c.1860, and set back from the road. Now vacant. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and red brick eaves course. Coursed random limestone and sandstone walls, roughcast rendered to rear. Limestone lintels and one intact slate sill to openings. Timber sash windows and timber battened doors. Site bounded by sandstone and limestone rubble wall.

• Abbey Hotel, hotel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey double-pile hotel, built c.1860, with projecting entrance bay with pyramidal roof and gabled dormer lights. Pitched slate roof, currently being rebuilt. Rendered chimneystacks. Ransom coursed limestone with red brick dressings and rendered walls to side and rear and with cut stone relieving arches to ground floor windows. Timber casement windows with stone sills and brick surrounds. Upper windows have gables with carved bargeboards. Replacement glazed timber door with brick surround and fanlight. Carved stone head over doorway at south end of façade.

• Dromahair Garda Síochána Station, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former house, built c.1840, now in use as a garda station. Set within a garden. Hipped tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth course. Timber sash windows with exposed sash boxes and concrete hoods. Replacement timber door and fanlight. Stone outbuilding to north. Site bounded by rendered wall with piers and wrought-iron gates to street. Random stone wall to rear.

• Dromahair Church (Drumlease), church/chapel, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built in 1806 and rebuilt in 1816 with a loan from the Board of First Fruits. Comprises three-bay nave with single-bay chancel, vestry and porch. Three-stage tower with clock, castellations and pinnacles. Pitched slate roof with stone finials and rendered chimneystack to vestry. Pebbledashed walls with limestone sills, dressings and hood mouldings to windows. Tooled pointed-arched windows with limestone tracery and stained glass to rear wall of nave and with timber tracery to front. Square-headed openings to second stage of tower. Timber battened double door to tower with carved drop-arched surround. Date plaque above door. Grave markers to site ranging in date from mid-nineteenth century to the present. Site bounded by rubble limestone wall with dressed limestone gate piers with stile and cast-iron gate.

• Milestone/milepost, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Painted carved sandstone milestone, erected c.1850, with inscription in recessed face reading 'M.HAMILTON 9, BUNDORAN 25, E.SKILLEN 34'. Milestone is set at base of stone boundary wall to Church of Ireland graveyard.

• The Old Rectory, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, built c.1880, with gables to elevations, advanced end bay, single-storey porch and extensions to side and rear. Set within mature gardens. Pitched tiled roof with yellow brick chimneystacks and terracotta pots. Pebbledashed walls on nap plinth. Timber margined sash windows with stucco surrounds and stone sills. Glazed timber panelled door. Outbuilding to north-east. Site bounded by random limestone walls with cut stone piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1915, with GR and crown monogram. Set into uncoursed random limestone wall.

• The Lodge, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey with dormer floor house, built c.1800. Gables to façade and south-west elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth course. Replacement timber casement windows with tooled stone sills. Gabled modern porch, tiled threshold and leaded stained glass windows to timber entrance door and sidelights. Timber battened doors to rear with limestone thresholds and bootscraper. Two-storey rectangular bay to south-east elevation. Later single- and two-storey extensions to rear. Sandstone flags to rear of site. Site bounded by random coursed limestone wall with disused entrance to south-east having cast-iron piers and gates. Present entrance to north-west with cut stone piers and wrought-iron gate. Roofless fortified house to rear, built in 1626.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1820, with full-height cut stone cutwaters and voussoirs to round arch-rings. Concrete cutwaters added in twentieth century. Modern plaque in parapet.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumahaire, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumahaire with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Drumahaire · Droim Dhá Thiar

Area

499,095 m² (49.91 ha, 123.33 acres)

Civil parish

Drumlease, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Drumahaire, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,714 people lived in 639 households in the Drumahaire electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardakip Beg, Carrickacroghery, Creevelea, Drumlease, Fawn, Friarstown, Mullagh

Placenames

Drumahaire 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.