Drum

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum, from 35 m² to 212,789 m² (21.28 ha, 52.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Drum 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  for change of house plans from those previously granted under planning permission reference number 22/60880 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561503

• 1 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 178sqm (dwelling house) and 50sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260880

• 25 Jan 2022Refused

  consequent on ref number 19/1078 to construct a private dwelling house, also wish to apply for full permission for a domestic garage in addition to applying for retention of revised reduced site boundaries to that granted under outline ref 19/1078. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 204 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2259

• 23 Dec 2019Refused

  on ref number 19/1078 to construct a private dwelling house, on revised (reduced site boundaries) to that granted under outline ref 19/1078. Gross floor space of proposed works: 138 sqm

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 192035

• 16 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191078

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drum.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, 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 Drum.

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

Name

Drum · An Droim

Area

1,136,582 m² (113.66 ha, 280.86 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 704 people in 266 households; 86% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloondroon, Cloonnacross, Coollicknalea, Curraghaderry, Gortnagunned, Gortnaloura, Illaun, Killerneen, Pollaturick

Placenames

Drum 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.