Drumagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumagh, from 360 m² to 70,804 m² (7.08 ha, 17.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Drumagh 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.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  Planning permission to upgrade their wastewater treatment system to include a new secondary treatment plant, tertiary treatment unit, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660707

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 Drumagh.

Recorded monuments

• MA050-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, located on the gentle S-facing slope of an E–W ridge. Overlooked to NE by a cashel (MA050-007001) which is c. 60m upslope to NE on the crown of the ridge. Not shown on the 1838 edition OS 6-inch map; depicted on the 1929 edition as a roughly square enclosure (max. dim. 20-25m) incorporated into field walls on the W, N and E sides, with a shallow arc of hachuring on the S side. This ringfort was levelled in 1980 during land reclamation works. An ephemeral C-shaped surface undulation or cropmark, curving SW–NW, outlines the W arc. The NW–SE field fence that bordered the E side of the enclosure is extant, and is lined with large heaps of stones, boulders and field clearance debris resulting from the removal of the S, W and N boundaries of the enclosure. Abutting the E side of the NW–SE fence a low stony rise forms a short arc, possibly representing a remnant of the E arc of the original enclosing wall. There is a souterrain (MA050-006001-) in the interior (SRM file: OPW field notes 1980). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-006001 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a ringfort (MA050-006---). A souterrain was discovered to NW of centre in the interior of the ringfort during land reclamation works (SRM file: OPW field notes 1980). The displacement of a roofing lintel revealed a passage (L 4.6m NE–SW; Wth c. 0.75m; H c. 1-1.2m) with walls of drystone construction and lintel roofing. The passage was blocked at its NE end by collapsed soil. A creep was visible in the end wall at the SW, opening into a rectangular chamber, but a blockage in the creep prevented access to chamber. According to the report, the access hole to the souterrain was covered over. No trace of the souterrain is now evident at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-007001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  This cashel is not indicated on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly oval or sub-rectangular area (32.6m NW–SE; 20m NE–SW) defined by a collapsed stone wall (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.4-0.5m, 1.6m at S). For much of its circuit the wall is evident as a loose jumble of stone, largely obscured by overgrowth. A foundation course of large stones is visible on the W arc. Upstanding walling appears to be the result of modern rebuilding, or incorporation into a later system of straight field walls, and this gives the cashel its current almost rectangular outline. The interior slopes down slightly from NW to SE; it is built up somewhat at S to compensate for the natural fall of ground. The surface is uneven and broken by large embedded boulders at NE, SW and W, and dotted with a few small heaps of loose stone. There is a souterrain (MA050-007002-) in the N of the interior, close to the enclosing wall. Field walls, which abutted the cashel at S and W, have been removed, and heaps of field clearance stones are piled against the perimeter of the enclosure at N and E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-007002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a cashel (MA050-007001-). There is a surface opening (2m N–S; 0.8m E–W; D 1m) into the souterrain on the W side of a slightly sunken area of stony ground in the N of the cashel interior, close to the enclosing wall. The opening gives onto the W end of a roughly oblong chamber (2.2m E–W; 1.3m N−S at W end) of drystone construction, roofed with stone slabs. The floor is covered with an accumulated layer of loose earth and debris; the height of the chamber above current floor level is 0.6m. The chamber is widest and rectangular in shape at the W end, but tapers to a narrow rounded end at E. A single flat slab lies on the floor at its E end. A lintel can be seen built into the chamber wall at E, just above current floor level; it may cover a creep leading E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Located on top of an E–W ridge, with an abrupt and steep fall of ground to S. This enclosure, probably a rath, is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, and on the 1929 edition as a walled enclosure. It has been levelled and a modern house, now derelict, occupies the N half of the interior. The roughly circular outline (diam. c. 28m) can still be traced, defined at ENE–E by a curving undulation, at ESE–SW by a slight scarp merging with the natural slope, and at WSW–NNW by an ephemeral continuation of the curve, now incorporated into a N–S line of conifers. The N edge of the enclosure is clipped by an E–W trackway/road. The S half of the interior is grassy and featureless. Trees and ring the perimeter. A ruined shed abuts the NW edge of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-010 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, located at the E end of an E–W ridge. There is an abrupt fall of ground to S towards a flat expanse of reclaimed or wettish pasture. There is a modern cottage adjacent at NW and a farmyard at SW. This ringfort has been modified in the relatively recent past, and incorporated into a system of later field fences. It is evident now as a slightly raised, oblong or sub-rectangular area (23.2m N–S; c. 16m E–W) defined at SW–NNW by a low, broadly slumped curving scarp (H 0.5m). The N edge of the enclosure is defined by a straight E–W field wall, which appears to have truncated the scarp. At NE–SW the scarp is incorporated into an earth and stone field fence (H 1.3m at S), bordered internally along the W side by a shallow field ditch (Wth 1m.; D 0.2m). The interior is level, with an uneven surface. The perimeter at E–SW is engulfed in overgrowth Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumagh, about 1 in 10 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 Drumagh.

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

Name

Drumagh · Dromach

Area

712,505 m² (71.25 ha, 176.06 acres)

Civil parish

Killasser, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Tumgesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 136 households in the Tumgesh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinaskollia, Carroweeny, Carrowliam Beg, Creggaun, Knockbrack (Co. Sligo), Tulleague

Placenames

Drumagh 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.