Drummacool
Drummacool is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacallan, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Droim Mhic an Choill.
- Area
- 56.7 ha
- 140 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 7,545 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummacool, from 39 m² to 199,009 m² (19.9 ha, 49.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drummacool 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
3 Feb 2022N/a
Development consisting of the construction of a domestic garage, ancillary to the enjoyment of existing dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2237
16 Jul 2018Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18274
26 May 2017Conditional
development consisting of: (1) demolition of existing extension measuring 9.8 sq.m and construction of new extension measuring 68 sq.m. (2) retention of existing conservatory measuring 11 sq.m, all to the north-east side/rear of the house with minor alterations to existing house
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17201
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 Drummacool.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummacool.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drummacool.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummacool.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drummacool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Drummacool · Droim Mhic an Choill
- Area
- 566,947 m² (56.69 ha, 140.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacallan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Electoral division
- Drumcolumb, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 273 people lived in 106 households in the Drumcolumb electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cartrontonlena, Drumnasoohy, Glen, Rathmulpatrick, Ummeryroe
- Placenames
- Drummacool 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.