Drimneen

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drimneen, from 17 m² to 142,169 m² (14.22 ha, 35.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Drimneen 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.

• 22 Dec 2020Refused

  to use part of existing commercial building as a car repair garage. Permission is also being sought to carry out road verge improvement and safety measures between roadside boundary wall and the public road edge. Gross floor area of work to be retained: 103 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 202025

• 5 Feb 2020Conditional

  for a dwelling house and private wastewater treatment system as constructed with the removal of the lifetime enurement clause. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Dwelling 128.7 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20123

• 17 May 2019Refused

  to use part of existing commercial building as a car repair garage. Permission also sought to erect an advertising sign inside the front boundary wall of the property adjacent to the public road. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 103 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19753

• 21 Mar 2019N/a

  to use part of existing commercial building as a car repair garage. Permission is also sought to erect an advertising sign inside the front boundary wall of the property adjacent to the public road. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 103 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19411

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drimneen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drimneen.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drimneen.

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 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 Drimneen.

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

Name

Drimneen · Droimnín

Area

241,609 m² (24.16 ha, 59.7 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Slieveaneena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Slieveaneena electoral division: 797 people in 280 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbally, Deerfield or Gortnavea, Dovepark, Gortnamona West, Knockshanbally, Newtown, Rinneen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drimneen 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.