Drumrolla
Drumrolla is a townland in the civil parish of Kilshalvy, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Droim Rothla.
- Area
- 39.9 ha
- 98 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 199,483 m² (19.95 ha, 49.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumrolla, from 196,362 m² (19.64 ha, 48.52 acres) to 202,603 m² (20.26 ha, 50.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Drumrolla 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
No planning application touches the townland of Drumrolla 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.
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 Drumrolla.
Recorded monuments
- SL044-023001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on top of a drumlin with a commanding view. This rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; straight NE side L c. 30m NNW-SSE). On the 1942-43 OS 6-inch map it was indicated as a subrectangular area (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) defined by a curving field boundary N-NE, by a curving scarp NE-SSW, by two short linear field boundaries which form a W corner and by a hachured bank NW-N. There is a souterrain (SL044-023002-) in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL044-023002 Souterrain
Description
In a rath (SL044-023001-). In 1836 it was noted that 'in Drumrolla townland there is a great fort and cave, the entrance to which is open' (OSL, 145). There are no visible remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumrolla.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumrolla, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1108 (ZIP).
- 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 Drumrolla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Drumrolla · Droim Rothla
- Area
- 398,527 m² (39.85 ha, 98.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshalvy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corran
- Electoral division
- Kilshalvy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 298 people lived in 115 households in the Kilshalvy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonanure, Cloonena, Derrynagraug, Riverstown, Tawnaghmore
- Placenames
- Drumrolla 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.