Drumercool
Townland in the civil parish of Killukin (Boyle Ra), barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 66.6 ha
- 165 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 1,776 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumercool, from 742 m² to 406,724 m² (40.67 ha, 100.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumercool 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Drumercool 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumercool.
Recorded monuments
- RO011-066 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the top of the SE-facing slope of a small NE-SW drumlin ridge. Oval scrub-covered area (dims 41m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-NE and a scarp (H 0.5-1m) elsewhere, separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2-2.75m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.95m at SW to 3.8m at N; int. H 0.35m at S to 1.4m at N; ext. H 0.6-1m), which is incorporated into a field bank NW-E. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-161 Mass-rock (present location)
Description
The mass rock from Knockananima (RO011-167002-), c. 1.2km to the N, was incorporated into the original altar of the Roman Catholic church of Drumlion at Drumercool when the church was built in 1856 (Keenehan et al. 2006). It can be seen protruding from the back of the altar. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO011-171 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated In improved pasture on a very gentle N-facing slope. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a small oval area (dims 17m E-W; c. 14m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at ESE: Wth of base 4.3m; Wth of top 1.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.25m) and outer fosse (at ESE: Wth of top 3.2m; Wth of base 1.4m; D 0.15m) NE-S-NW, but the perimeter is reduced to a low scarp (at N: Wth 3.2m; H 0.55m) NW-NE. There is no visible entrance. Despite its small size it may be a rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 May, 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumercool.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1424 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumercool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Drumercool
- Area
- 666,224 m² (66.62 ha, 164.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killukin (Boyle Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Danesfort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Danesfort electoral division: 963 people in 378 households; 60% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyculleen, Derraun, Drumerr, Drumlion, Lodge
- Placenames
- Drumercool 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.