Drum East

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum East, from 113 m² to 127,570 m² (12.76 ha, 31.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 East 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.

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  for the permanent placement of soil and topsoil to extend the existing GAA playing pitch development (previously granted under Planning Ref. 16/707 and 22/388) and all associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561876

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a new indoor training pitch facility, supplementary recreational activity amenities and all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 4736.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461807

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a new loose bedded shed and all ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 379.44 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460792

• 24 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of posts and ball stop netting and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460771

• 15 Jan 2024N/a

  for: A) permanent placement of soil and topsoil to extend the existing GAA pitch development (previously granted under planning ref. 16/707 and 22/388), B) disabled access parking and viewing areas, C) team dug out structures and ball stop netting and structures and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 24 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460033

• 27 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a rear and first floor extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations. Permission is also sougth for the incorporation of part of the existing garage into the rear extension along with elevation alterations to same and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 47.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211998

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a dwelling house and a private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works 142 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211970

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 463.1 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211715

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  for erection of 3 no. floodlights to side of Pitch 4 (previously approved under planning ref. nos. 03/6724, and 10/674) and for 3 no additional floodlights to be erected on existing poles on pitch 3.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211312

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 116.31 sqm, Garage: 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21770

• 5 May 2021N/a

  for the erection of 3. no. floodlights to side of pitch 4 [previously approved under Planning Ref. No's 03/6724 & 10/674] and for 3 no additional floodlights to be erected on existing poles on pitch 3.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21741

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  for alterations to the front elevation, construction of a single storey rear and side extension, alterations to the existing rear elevation, internal alterations and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed areas: 263.90 msq Gross floor space of work to be retained: 236.37 msq. Gross floor space of any demolition; 5.60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201815

• 1 Oct 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house and on-site treatment system, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 225 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201421

• 27 Aug 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 111.73 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201193

• 6 May 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new Calving/Loose shed and all ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 217.44sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained; 453.45

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20553

• 18 Dec 2019Refused

  for the erection of a new dwelling house, garage and sewage treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 133 sqm (Dwelling House), 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191955

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 248.4 sqm, Garage - 48.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191934

• 4 Dec 2019Conditional

  of (1) existing dwelling house and domestic garage on revised site boundaries, previous pl. ref. no. 97/1737 (2) Re-alignment of existing southern site boundary and creation of a new vehicular entrance along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 375 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191869

• 18 Oct 2019Conditional

  chun teach conaithe, garaiste agus seirbhis searchais le aon oibreacha riachtanach agus seirbhisí coimhdeacha eile a thógáil. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: Teach - 300 sqm, Garáiste - 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191619

• 27 Sept 2019Conditional

  for a wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191496

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  for the re-configuration of existing all weather pitches including associated fencing, lighting, site works and services.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171095

• 15 Jun 2017Conditional

  for (a) demolition of an existing house, (b) a new single storey house, (c) a new garage (d) a new proprietary waste water treatment system and filtration area, (e) a new vehicle access and (f) all associated site works (gross floor space demolition 69sqm; proposed 287sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17868

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Moycullen Bogs NHA 002364

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drum East.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_402 (ZIP).

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

Name

Drum East · An Droim Thoir

Area

848,721 m² (84.87 ha, 209.72 acres)

Civil parish

Rahoon, and its townlands

Barony

Galway

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barna electoral division: 3,866 people in 1,287 households; 84% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleybeg East, Boleynasruhaun, Corboley (Lynch), Drum West, Tonabrocky

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drum East 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.