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Townland

Drumline

Drom Laoinn

The census distinguishes the townland from an electoral division including land in Bunratty parish.

Watercolour and fine ink view of Drumline Tower House with irregular narrow windows and large surviving wall breaches above a grassy slope.
Illustration, the surviving wall of Drumline Tower House, County Clare, as photographed in June 2012
Recorded locationDrumline52.72996° N · 8.85238° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

droimridge

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Drom Laoinn · Irish · main form
  • Drumline · English · main form

Place & story

One hundred and ten inhabitants

Drumline had 110 inhabitants in 1901, sixty-four male and forty-six female. All twenty-one recorded houses were occupied. The comparison columns give 169 inhabitants in 1881 and 124 in 1891, with thirty-five and twenty-nine houses respectively. The townland appears in Drumline parish and Bunratty Lower barony, within Drumline electoral division, Newmarket dispensary district and Ennis Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 877 acres, one rood and eighteen perches. The larger electoral division had 398 inhabitants and also included townlands in Bunratty parish. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Clare
Civil parish
Drumline
Coordinates
52.72996, -8.85238
Mapped area
3.55 km²
Logainm ID
6228 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Drumline. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1901: County Clare, Table VII, printed page 26 · Census Commissioners for Ireland, 1902
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. The surviving wall of Drumline Tower House, County Clare illustration: based on a Castles of Munster: Drumline, Clare (1) by Garry Dickinson. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Additional reference: Drumline Tower House by Roger Diel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-11-01. How this page was prepared.