Drumdoe

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdoe, from 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 640,696 m² (64.07 ha, 158.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Drumdoe 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.

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a garage and office extension connected to the existing dwelling by a connecting hallway, alteration to the existing doorway on the rear north face of the building and all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2382

• 2 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission to construct a garage and office extension connected to the existing dwelling by a connecting hallway, alteration to the existing doorway on the rear North face of the building and all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2358

• 9 Jan 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house with domestic effluent treatment system and polishing filter together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 177

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Arrow SAC 001673
• Special Protection Area: Lough Arrow SPA 004050
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Arrow 001673

Recorded monuments

• RO003-012 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  The Mac Dermot Roe separated from the main line of the Mac Dermots in the first half of the 14th century and made Tir Tuathail their base. However in 1585 Conor Óg Mac Dermot of the Sliocht Eoghan was tanist of Mac Dermot with lands at Aghacarra, which included Drumdoe. His son Owen retained them in 1635 but lost them thereafter. (Mac Dermot 1996, 355-60; O'Conor, 2007, 200-201) On the E shore of Lough Arrow, c. 30m from the lake. The remains of the three-storey house (int. dims. 9.2m E-W; 5.3m N-S) survive at the SE angle of the bawn (RO003-012001-) (int. dims. 28m E-W; 19m N-S), which lacks its W wall but which has fragments of a gatehouse (RO003-012002-) on the S wall. The walls of the house (H c. 9m; T 0.8-1.1m) survive only on the W and N with the joists of the upper floors set directly into the walls. At the ground floor there is a robbed window in the N wall, and a fireplace and gun-loop in the W wall. There is a robbed window in the W and N walls at the first floor, and a fireplace in the W wall and a gun-loop in the N wall on the second floor. The N and E bawn walls survive almost intact (H 3-3.5m; T 1m) with six gun-loops in the N wall and six in the E wall, but with no evidence of a wall-walk or parapet. The foundations (H 1-1.3m; T 1m) of a circular tower (int. diam. 3.9m) entered directly from the bawn and with one surviving gun-loop are at the NW angle. Towards the W end of the S wall is the gatehouse, a two storey structure (int. dims. 3.4m N-S; 3.1m E-W) with large openings at the ground level at N (Wth 2.2m) and S, and one surviving gun-loop. Crannog (RO003-011----) is c. 140m to the W in the lake, and the possible motte (RO003-022----) is c. 115m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-012001 Bawn
  Description

  A castle of Mac Dermot Roe on the E shore of Lough Arrow, c. 30m from the lake. The remains of the three-storey fortified house (RO003-012----) survive at the SE angle of the bawn (int. dims. 28m E-W; 19m N-S), which lacks its W wall but which has fragments of a gatehouse on the S wall. The N and E bawn walls survive almost intact (H 3-3.5m; T 1m) with six gun-loops in the N wall and six in the E wall, but with no evidence of a wall-walk or parapet. The foundations (H 1-1.3m; T 1m) of a circular tower (int. diam. 3.9m) entered directly from the bawn and with one surviving gun-loop are at the NW angle. Towards the W end of the S wall is the gatehouse (RO003-012002-), with one surviving gun-loop. The possible motte (RO003-022----) is c. 115m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-012002 Gatehouse
  Description

  A castle (RO003-012001-) of Mac Dermot Roe on the E shore of Lough Arrow, c. 30m from the lake. The remains of the three-storey house (RO003-012----) survive at the SE angle of the bawn (RO003-012001-), which lacks its W wall but which has fragments of a gatehouse on the S wall. Located towards the W end of the S wall of the bawn is the gatehouse, a two storey structure (int. dims. 3.4m N-S; 3.1m E-W) with large openings at the ground level at N (Wth 2.2m) and S, and one surviving gun-loop. The possible motte (RO003-022----) is c. 115m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-022 Castle - motte
  Description

  On the SE shore of Lough Arrow. Flat-topped grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base c. 22m; diam. of top 15m N-S; 13m E-W; H 3-4m) planted with mature deciduous trees, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth 4.5-5.5m; D 0.1m) NW-NE. Crannog (RO003-011----) is c. 125m to the NW in the lake, and fortified house (RO003-012001-) is c. 125m to the NNE along the shore. (Doran 5005, 376-7) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-084 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On flat low-lying ground. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 12m E-W; 11.5m N-S; H 0.3-0.4m) of broken and burnt stones with an indentation for the trough (dims 2.9m E-W; 2.3m N-S) at S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumdoe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Drumdoe

Area

1,758,463 m² (175.85 ha, 434.53 acres)

Civil parish

Boyle, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Kilbryan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

400 people lived in 144 households in the Kilbryan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacarra, Andresna (Co. Sligo), Lecarrow (Co. Sligo), Sheegorey, Tintagh

Placenames

Drumdoe 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.