Drumfad

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfad, from 284 m² to 188,383 m² (18.84 ha, 46.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Drumfad 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.

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of extension to south west elevation and alterations to north west elevation of existing dwelling - CONDITION NO. 3 COMPLIED WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560130

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21139

• 4 Dec 2018N/a

  for development consisting of 5 no. Forest Road access's, with associated turning heads and security gates. Including all other ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18475

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18350

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 Drumfad.

Recorded monuments

• SL005-012 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on summit of E-W orientated ridge, on slight SE-facing slope, in pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 24m) defined by a stone bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.5m). No fosse visible. From SW-SE the bank has been largely removed leaving a low broad bank of stone (Wth 5m; H 0.2m). From SE-SW, the bank has been reconstructed to form a larger bank to act as a field boundary. A N-S orientated field wall lies on top of the bank WSW-WNW. An E-W orientated field wall abuts the external side of the bank at N. A N-S orientated field wall lies on top of the bank NE-SE. A break (Wth 4m) in the bank at NW marks the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-013 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on summit of SW-NE orientated ridge, on slight SSE-facing slope, in pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map but depicted on the 1912 edition as a small circular hachured area (diam. c. 6m). No surface trace of an archaeological feature is visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a slight SSE-facing slope, overlooking lower ground to S, in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 20m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.85m). No fosse visible at ground level. The inner face of the bank has been reconstructed as a drystone wall of limestone rubble (Wth 0.6m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.1m). Modern drystone field walls (orientated NW-SE) link to the external side of the bank at NNW and at SE. A break (Wth 2.2m) in the bank at ENE, now blocked by modern drystone walling, marks the position of the original entrance. A modern break (Wth 1.4m) in the bank and the internal wall at NW allows access to the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumfad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Drumfad · An Droim Fada

Area

2,510,460 m² (251.05 ha, 620.35 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Cliffony South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cliffony South electoral division: 577 people in 216 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincastle, Cartronplank, Castlegowan, Cloonerco, Cloysparra, Derry, Edenreagh, Moneygold, Mount Temple, Rathfrask, Rathhugh

Placenames

Drumfad 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.