Drumsillagh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsillagh, from 172 m² to 106,307 m² (10.63 ha, 26.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Drumsillagh 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 Drumsillagh 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643

Recorded monuments

• RO007-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 50m from the E shore of a bay (dims c. 750m N-S; c. 350m E-W) at the N end of Lough Eidin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 32m) defined by an earthen bank with trees (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.2-1.5m; ext. H 0.2-1.5m) N-E-S which has been augmented with spoil (ext. H 0.3-1m) elsewhere. There is an external drain S-W-N, but there is no visible fosse or entrance. A test excavation (98E0589) just to the SE failed to produce any evidence of outer features (Walsh 2000a). Rath (RO007-075----) is c. 160m to the E and rath (RO007-076----) is c. 150m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO007-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 20-22m) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), with a fosse (Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.2-0.4m) SE-SW. There is no visible entrance. Rath RO007-074----) is c. 160m to the W and rath (RO007-076----) is c. 120m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO007-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 17m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) E-S and a scarp (H 0.2m to 0.7m at NW) elsewhere, but the perimeter at NE is obscured by spoil. A back-filled fosse is visible as a band of wet ground (Wth 2-3m) E-SE and at NW. There is no visible entrance and a NW-SE field bank bisects the interior. Rath (RO007-074----) is c. 150m to the NW and rath (RO007-075----) is c. 120m to the NNE. 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 Drumsillagh.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1421 (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 Drumsillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Drumsillagh

Area

613,520 m² (61.35 ha, 151.6 acres)

Civil parish

Tumna, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Tumna South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tumna South electoral division: 207 people in 89 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Church Hill, Cleaheen, Dergraw, Derreenannagh, Kilmacarril, Laughil, Powellshill

Placenames

Drumsillagh 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.