Drummod
Drummod is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnoe, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Dromad.
- Area
- 409.9 ha
- 1,013 acres
- Land parcels
- —
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drummod 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
20 Feb 2026Conditional
of alterations and extension to derelict cottage, including raising of cottage ridge height, provision of ground and first floor extension, enlarged porch structure to front elevation, removal of front boundary ditch and provision of vehicular entrance. PERMISSION is sought to complete building work to cottage and extension, complete front boundary with appropriate hedge planting and stone wall splayed site entrance, installation of waste water treatment system with percolation area and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2646
12 Jan 2026Conditional
of two dormer windows, septic tank and percolation area, and an incomplete extension. and also PERMISSION for alterations to the extension and completion of the dwelling place and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660004
25 Mar 2024Conditional
of an existing garage for private domestic use and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460130
10 Nov 2022Conditional
to erect a dwellinghouse, garage, entrance and install an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221022
3 Aug 2022Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22695
2 Nov 2021N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211145
30 Nov 2020Conditional
Nineteen (19) number wind turbines (blade tip height up to 169 metres), Nineteen (19) number wind turbine foundations and associated hardstand areas, one (1) number permanent meteorological mast (100 metre height) and associated foundation and hardstand area, one (1) number substation (110 kilovolts) including associated ancillary buildings (electrical building including control, switchgear and metering rooms and the operational building including welfare facilities, workshop and office), security fencing and all associated works, upgraded site entrance, new and upgraded internal site service roads (8.4 kilometres of existing tracks to be upgraded and 11.4 kilometres of new service roads to be constructed), provision of an onsite visitor cabin and parking, underground electrical collection and SCADA system linking each turbine to the proposed on-site substation, construction of new roadways and localised widening along the turbine delivery route, two (2) number temporary construction site compounds, three (3) number burrow pits to be used as a source of stone material during construction, three (3) number peat and spoil deposition areas (at burrow pit locations), associated surface water management systems, tree felling for windfarm infrastructure, and all associated site development works. All in the townlands of Ballydonaghan, Caherhurley, Coumnagun, Carrownagowan, lnchalughoge, Killokennedy, Kilbane, Coolready and Durmmod, County Clare.
Permission · Clare County Council, 229000
29 Oct 2019Conditional
for the following 1. to RETAIN house at location shown, as completed on site (previous permission P04/2504); 2. Permission to RETAIN Waste Water Treatment System at location shown (amended from location granted under previous permission P04/2504); 3. PERMISSION for new percolation at location shown (amended from location granted under previous permission P04/2504); 4. South-Western boundary of site to be amended as shown; 5. Bored Well as shown on Planning Ref. no. P04/2504 to be re-located as shown on site, and existing to be discontinued; 6. Entrance driveway to be RETAINED as shown (amended from driveway location granted under previous permission (P04/2504)
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19825
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
The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.
Recorded monuments
The Sites and Monuments Record did not answer.
Architectural heritage
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.
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 Drummod, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummod.
- 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 Drummod with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Drummod · Dromad
- Area
- 4,098,614 m² (409.86 ha, 1,012.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Boherglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 288 people lived in 107 households in the Boherglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Drummod 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.