Drumcurreen
Drumcurreen is a townland in the civil parish of Dysert, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Drom Cuirrín.
- Area
- 79.5 ha
- 197 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 29,091 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcurreen, from 536 m² to 163,116 m² (16.31 ha, 40.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Drumcurreen 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
8 Jun 2026Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26159
12 Aug 2024Conditional
for development which will consist of a dwelling house and garage with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24255
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 Drumcurreen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcurreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcurreen.
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 Drumcurreen, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumcurreen.
- 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 Drumcurreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcurreen · Drom Cuirrín
- Area
- 795,291 m² (79.53 ha, 196.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Dysert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 334 people lived in 124 households in the Dysert electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahasla, Ballynagonnaghtagh, Druminshin, Garvillaun, Knockreagh
- Placenames
- Drumcurreen 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.