Drumsillagh

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsillagh, from 206 m² to 99,074 m² (9.91 ha, 24.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumsillagh 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.

• 13 Jul 2020Refused

  to construct a new one off single storey domestic dwelling which will act as a granny flat to the main domestic dwelling on the site, extend the existing site access lane, construct a new waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20269

• 3 Jul 2020N/a

  Permission to construct a new one off single storey domestic dwelling which will act as a granny flat to the main domestic dwelling on the site, extend the existing site access lane, construct a new waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20248

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 Drumsillagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO006-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 40m E-W; 37.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 4.15m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.8m; at N: Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.55m) and outer fosse which is re-cut as a drain (Wth of top 3.2-4.25m; D 0.3-0.5m). There are modern entrances at SSW and NNW. Rath (RO007-001----) is c. 190m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO007-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low rise between drumlins. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 34-35m) defined by an overgrown and gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.8-3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) SW-W and an overgrown scarp (H 0.1-0.8m) at NW and NE-S, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 3-3.5m; D 0.5m) at E and S-W. The site is truncated by a NE-SW field bank and drain at N, and the fosse is re-used as a drain at E. There is no recognisable entrance. Rath (RO006-023----) is c. 190m to the SSW. 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 Drumsillagh.

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 Drumsillagh, about 1 in 20 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumsillagh

Area

1,037,096 m² (103.71 ha, 256.27 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Oakport, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 198 households in the Oakport electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 64% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleen, Clegna, Cloongreaghan, Derrygirraun, Doogary, Tullyval

Placenames

Drumsillagh 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.