Drimcong

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drimcong, from 7 m² to 108,478 m² (10.85 ha, 26.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Nov 2024Refused

  for a boat shed (55 sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461569

• 23 Jan 2024Conditional

  of: (1) elevational changes to Hobby House (previously granted planning Ref. No. 18/785) to include enclosed terrace, (2) low level storage shed with patio above, (3) effluent treatment and disposal system, (4) all on revised site boundaries, as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 31.5 sqm (storage/shed)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460062

• 4 May 2023Refused

  for the A). revision of site boundaries; B). retain dwelling house, hobby house and store room on new site boundaries; C). retain minor elevation changes of the hobby house. Permission for new garage at rear of site and permission for a conservatory at the south east elevation of the hobby house

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23174

• 9 Apr 2020Conditional

  is sought for the existing dwelling on site (floor area = 136 sqm) and all associated elements including ancillary garage. Permission is sought for an extension to dwelling (floor area = 243.50 sqm), a new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 243.50 sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 136 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20462

• 3 Jul 2019N/a

  and permission for development at Drimcong. Retention permission is sought for the existing dwelling on site (floor area = 136m2) and all associated elements including ancillary garage. Permission is sought for an extension to dwelling (floor area = 243.50 sqm), a new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 243.50 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 136 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191020

• 11 Jun 2018Conditional

  for construction of a hobby shed to the side of dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works 73sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18785

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drimcong Wood 001260

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drimcong.

Architectural heritage

• Drimcong House, country house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey two-pile country house, built c.1730, having single-bay two-storey addition recessed to east end. Pitched slate roofs with brackets to eaves, and rendered chimneystacks to gable ends. Rendered walls. Square-headed windows with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Carved limestone doorcase with consoles and having timber panelled door, overlight and accessed by steps. Extensive yard of outbuildings to north-west. Set in its own landscaped grounds. Walled garden to south-west, bounded by rubble limestone walls and having stone-walled structures to north-west and north-east sides.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drimcong.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Drimcong with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Drimcong · Droim Chonga

Area

476,007 m² (47.6 ha, 117.62 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Tullokyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullokyne electoral division: 2,303 people in 756 households; 81% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowlustraun, Deerfield or Gortnavea, Gortnamona East, Gortnamona West, Killarainy, Knockshanbally

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drimcong 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.