Drumkilsellagh
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish Droim Chill Saileach
- Area
- 101.7 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 2,774 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumkilsellagh, from 117 m² to 171,100 m² (17.11 ha, 42.28 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 Drumkilsellagh 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
25 Mar 2026Conditional
permission for (1) the construction of a new dwelling house (2) new garage (3) a new effluent treatment system and percolation area (4) formation of a new site entrance (5) and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660111
4 Aug 2020Conditional
PP - for development consisting of: 1. Revised house design to that granted under PL19/307, 2. Relocation of the proposed dwelling 4.9 m to the south east of location granted under PL19/307.
Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 20259
29 Jul 2019Conditional
development consisting of the construction of new dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19307
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 Drumkilsellagh.
Recorded monuments
- SL009-031 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012
- SL009-039 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure bisected by a NE-SW road. On the 1913 edition it is shown as an interverted D-shaped hachured enclosure (max. dim. 20m). This monument has been levelled and there are no remains now visible at ground level. 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 Drumkilsellagh.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumkilsellagh.
- 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 Drumkilsellagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Drumkilsellagh · Droim Chill Saileach
- Area
- 1,016,564 m² (101.66 ha, 251.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Drumcliff East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcliff East electoral division: 764 people in 299 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlegal, Doonally, Drum East, Kilsellagh, Willowbrook
- Placenames
- Drumkilsellagh 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.