Drumsheel Upper

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsheel Upper, from 145 m² to 57,883 m² (5.79 ha, 14.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Drumsheel Upper 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.

• 6 Mar 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new site entrance, dormer bungalow, packaged wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works and landscaping.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460107

• 22 Jan 2024Conditional

  on Grant of Outline Permission 23/60243 is sought for a dwelling house, separate domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated services

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460012

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  for a dwelling house, separate domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated services

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 2360243

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY REAR EXTENSION AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL, NEW REAR DORMER AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, NEW PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22343

• 17 Feb 2022Conditional

  PERMISSION CONSEQUENT ON GRANT OF OUTLINE PERMISSION REFERENCE P21/45 FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22111

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT WITH PERCOLATION AREA/POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 2145

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  The development will consist of the renovation of the existing dwelling house, upgrade of existing septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20265

• 4 Nov 2019Refused

  OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR DWELLING HOUSE, SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 19882

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 Drumsheel Upper.

Recorded monuments

• MA120-039 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA120-040 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on SE summit of hill. Square-shaped area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by remains of stone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.9m). Gap (Wth 7m) on E side, possible entrance, overlain by stone field fence. Interior contains cultivation ridges. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 278. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

• MA120-041001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At base of steep wooded precipice. A natural spring, no visible masonry, running into a lake. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 653. Date of upload: 12 December 2014

• MA120-041002 Inscribed stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA120-072 Megalithic structure
  Description

  On high ground, in rough pasture with rock outcrop, surrounded by scrub. Small chamber (1m N-S; 1.4m E-W; H 0.65m), orientated E-W. Constructed of upright slabs on N and S sides, with single slab at W end, overlain by three lintels. Cairn or clearance material (L 8.4m; Wth 5.3m; H 0.9m) piled at E end of chamber. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 83. Date of upload: 12 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1875, over Canáil Chonga [Cong Canal]. Segmental arch, north elevation having rusticated walls, voussoirs and string course, and south elevation having tooled walls, channelled rusticated voussoirs and string course. Dressed stone piers to north and dressed parapets with rusticated coping course.

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch "accommodation bridge" over canal, prepared 1852; built 1853; complete 1854. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone walls between coursed or snecked limestone battered piers with rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with rock faced limestone ashlar "crow stepped" voussoirs centred on rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Canáil Chonga [Cong Canal] with overgrown embankments to canal.

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 Drumsheel Upper, 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 Drumsheel Upper.

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 Drumsheel Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Drumsheel Upper · Droim Síl Uachtarach

Area

499,125 m² (49.91 ha, 123.34 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Cong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalahard, Creevagh Middle, Creevagh South, Cregaree, Creggaree (Co. Galway), Drumsheel Lower, Nymphsfield

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drumsheel Upper 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.