Drumlion

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlion, from 347 m² to 207,073 m² (20.71 ha, 51.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Drumlion 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 Drumlion 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumlion.

Recorded monuments

• RO011-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 31.5m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-4.7m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) NE-ESE and a scarp (H 0.2m to 0.9m at NW) WNW-N, but the perimeter cannot be seen elsewhere. A fosse is visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2m) at NW and NE-E, and the entrance (Wth 3.6m) is at ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO011-170 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in improved, level pasture, on a very gentle S-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 circular area (diam. 24m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp which is best preserved (at W: Wth 2.7m; H 0.35m) SE-W-N. It is bisected by a NNW-SSE field bank and drain and the scarp is less prominent (at SE: Wth 2.7m; H 0.35m), but still traceable, E of this feature. There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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 Drumlion.

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.

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.

No address of the register names Drumlion with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Drumlion · Droim Laighean

Area

943,326 m² (94.33 ha, 233.1 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

Derraun, Drumercool, Drumerr, Knockananima, Legvoy or Gardenstown, Lodge, Scregg

Placenames

Drumlion 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.