Drumalough

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumalough, from 1,800 m² to 267,816 m² (26.78 ha, 66.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drumalough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumalough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Drumalough Bog SAC 002338
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumalough Bog 001632

Recorded monuments

• RO020-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of an E-W ridge. Circular area used as a garden (diam. 23.8m E-W; 22.7m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 0.9-1.9m) which is reduced to a stone-faced scarp (H 1.8m) SE-SW and incorporated into a field bank NE-SE. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter has been quarried SW-NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 26.2m N-S; 23.1m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.1m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m) ESE-W separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6.4-6.7m; Wth of base 3.5-3.7m; D 1.3-1.7m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 4-4.3m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m) E-S-NW. The inner bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m at N) W-N-ESE and the outer features are absent NW-E. There is no identifiable original entrance. Crannog (RO020-035----) is c. 220m to the NE, and rath (RO020-034----) is c. 60m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the gentle N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Oval grass and rush-covered area (dims 37.4m E-W; 27.2m N-S) defined by a chord (L 8m) of an earthen bank at SW (Wth 6.7m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.7m) and slight remains of a bank (Wth 3.2m; H 0.2m) ENE-ESE with a scarp (H 1-1.5m) elsewhere. There is a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.4-7.9m; Wth of base 2.7-3.4m; D 0.6m) SSE-NW, and an outer bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.5m) SW-NW, but there is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO020-033----) is c. 60m to the NW and crannog (RO020-035----) is c. 250m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-035 Crannog
  Description

  Depicted as an island (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as an island attached to the SW shore of triangular Drumalough (dims c. 500m NW-SE; c. 300m NE-SW at SE) on the 1914 ed. The W shore of the reduced lake (dims c. 275m NW-SE; c. 200m NE-SW) is now c. 50m to the NE. Subcircular, flat-topped and grass-covered mound (dims of base 29m N-S; 25.4m E-W; dims. of top 10.3m N-S; 6.4m E-W; H 1.1-1.6m) with stones, but there is no clear indication of artificial construction. Raths (RO020-033----; RO020-034----) are c. 220m and 250m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-036 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the gentle S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Drumalough.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Drumalough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Drumalough · Droim an Locha

Area

1,728,092 m² (172.81 ha, 427.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Cloonfower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonfower electoral division: 346 people in 137 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breanabeg, Cloonbonniff, Cloonchambers, Clooncoose North, Cloonfower, Creglahan, Leveelick

Placenames

Drumalough 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.