Drimmeen

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drimmeen, from 25 m² to 105,768 m² (10.58 ha, 26.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drimmeen 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.

• 29 Oct 2025Refused

  of the entrance, blockwork wing walls with piers and hardstanding area

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561582

• 5 Nov 2024Refused

  and complete entrance, hardstand area and stables. Gross floor space of proposed works: 33.40 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 33.40 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461487

• 31 Oct 2024N/a

  of alterations to the design of an extension to the front of dwelling, originally granted under ref no. 99/4809, the removal of the enurement clause and the retention of a utility shed to the rear. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 36 sqm (shed), 42 sqm (ext)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461473

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  of as-constructed dwelling house, shed, sewage treatment system along with all ancillary site works and site services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460476

• 30 Mar 2024Conditional

  for change of extension design to previously granted permissions- Refs: 21/1579 and 22/61252. The permission is for alterations and minor extensions to north and east of existing dwelling, replacement of existing roof with new roof, replacement of existing shed with new shed and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 48 sqm (house extension) & 18 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 18 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460358

• 6 Dec 2023Refused

  for change of extension design to previously granted permissions- Refs: 21/1579 and 22/61252. The permission is for alterations and minor extensions to north and east of existing dwelling, replacement of existing roof with new roof, replacement of existing shed with new shed and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 94 sqm (extension)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361459

• 15 Dec 2022Conditional

  for change of extension design to previously granted permission Ref: 21/1579. The permission sought is for dwelling extension with alterations to existing dwelling, replacement of existing shed with new and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 112.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261252

• 3 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwellinghouse on the ruins of an original stone cottage along with a new wastewater treatment system & site entrance on family lands. Gross floor space of proposed works: 160sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221158

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  to renovate an existing fire damaged derelict dwelling on our property, and convert the dwelling into a home office and studio ancillary to our existing residence. The development will include the installation of a new wastewater treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211963

• 30 Aug 2021Conditional

  for dwelling extension with alterations to existing dwelling, new roof to existing dwelling, replacement of existing shed with new and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 146 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 31 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211579

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  to remove existing septic tank and percolation area and replace with new effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works:

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21400

• 20 Aug 2019Conditional

  of (1) existing dwelling house and associated site services on revised site boundaries (2) retention of garden shed (3) permission to remove enurement clause. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 87.00 sqm, Shed - 7.13 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191289

• 11 Jun 2018Conditional

  of (1) existing dwelling house and domestic garage on revised site boundaries (2) permission to remove the enurement clause. Gross floor space of work to be retained Dwelling 188.00sqm, Garage 13.89sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18784

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drimmeen.

Architectural heritage

• Quay/wharf, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding S-plan quay, built c.1867, with bowed terminus, and creating two artificial harbours. Recent addition to north-west blocks entrance to western harbour, and recent retaining wall to south along approach road. Battered rubble stone walls of squared limestone blocks with limestone steps to water level to north-east elevation. Recent concrete parapet wall to interior elevations of western harbour, limestone and concrete coping with cylindrical granite mooring posts and iron mooring rings. Rubble stone and concrete retaining wall to approach road with both concrete steps and protruding stone steps to north elevation. Modern repairs to parts of quay from storm in 1991.

• House, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey T-plan house, built c.1865, having entrance to first floor with projecting porch to front approached by perron staircase. Three-bay long elevations to return and with recent single and two-storey additions to rear and to south-west. Hipped slate roof to house with rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered flat roof to porch with three shield plaques displaying coats of arms mounted on top of rendered parapet wall with decorative moulded cornice and similar sheilds above ground floor windows. Flat roof to south-western addition acting as balcony with timber railing. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered frieze having render lion masks and wreaths. Rendered quoin stones throughout. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone and concrete sills, three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and to south-west elevation of return, replacement timber windows to ground floor of north side of porch, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to north-east elevation of return. Segmental-headed main entrance door opening with replacement timber door and sidelights, accessed by rendered two-tier steps. Replacement timber door to area under perron. Recent square-headed door opening to first floor of south-west gable opening on to balcony. Single-storey boathouse to north-east having pitched corrugated sheet roof and double-leaf battened timber doors. Rubble stone boundary walls with square and round partially rendered rubble stone piers and battened timber gates surrounding site. Access to harbour is through concrete steps to south of boundary wall.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Drimmeen.

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 Drimmeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Drimmeen · An Droimín

Area

1,038,324 m² (103.83 ha, 256.58 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Errislannan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Errislannan electoral division: 234 people in 84 households; 83% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Keerhaun North, Kill

Placenames

Drimmeen 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.