Drumnasoohy

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnasoohy, from 173 m² to 208,867 m² (20.89 ha, 51.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Drumnasoohy 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  (1) alter & refurbish our existing dwelling, (2) construct new single storey extension to the rear/northeast elevation, (3) construct new detached storage outbuilding & (4) erect boundary fencing, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560391

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 Drumnasoohy.

Recorded monuments

• SL027-157001 Sweathouse
  Description

  Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. It is indicated as a small rectangular structure on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as as a circular structure on the 1914 edition. There are no surviving upstanding remains visible. This is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 14 December 2011

• SL027-157002 Well
  Description

  On the E side of a field boundary and separated from it by a drainage ditch. Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) as 'Sweathouse, possible'. There is no sweathouse at this location but there is a well, set into a semicircular area cut from the W side of a low rise. The opening is stone-lined (0.7m x 0.5m; D 0.6m). The sweat house (SL027-157001-) is c. 50m to WSW. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Columb's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey rendered Roman Catholic church, built c. 1850. Gabled porch to south elevation, gabled chancel to east gable, gabled vestry to north-east. Pitched slate roof, crested clay ridge tiles, unpainted roughcast moulded-capped chimneystack to vestry, concrete verges surmounted by crosses to east end and bellcote to west end, metal rainwater goods. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, projecting smooth-rendered plinth, coursed rock-faced ashlar buttresses with splayed caps, rock-faced ashlar walling to porch and breakfront to west gable. Lancet window openings, smooth-rendered arches, painted chamfered masonry sills, leaded stained and coloured glass lights. Pointed-arched door opening, chamfered ashlar reveals, hardwood vertically-sheeted double doors. Grass, gravelled drive and paths, painted smooth-rendered boundary walls to south and east.

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 Drumnasoohy, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumnasoohy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Drumnasoohy · Droim na Subhaí

Area

1,617,745 m² (161.77 ha, 399.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacallan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Drumcolumb, the unit of the census

Census 2022

273 people lived in 106 households in the Drumcolumb electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghoo, Boleymount, Cartrontonlena, Drummacool, Glen

Placenames

Drumnasoohy 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.