# Drumaskin, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Droim Eascaine. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 863,189 m² (86.32 ha, 213.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,859 m² (1.59 ha, 3.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 485 people lived in 162 households in the Carrowrevagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21429 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61891 - Centre: latitude 53.532274, longitude -8.780049 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumaskin, from 1,482 m² to 258,874 m² (25.89 ha, 63.97 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1976203: 258,874 m² (25.89 ha, 63.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976203.md - Parcel 1976202: 165,431 m² (16.54 ha, 40.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976202.md - Parcel 5950895: 142,025 m² (14.2 ha, 35.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5950895.md - Parcel 1921840: 69,814 m² (6.98 ha, 17.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921840.md - Parcel 1976206: 40,723 m² (4.07 ha, 10.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976206.md - Parcel 1976207: 39,610 m² (3.96 ha, 9.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976207.md - Parcel 1921847: 31,234 m² (3.12 ha, 7.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921847.md - Parcel 1921841: 25,940 m² (2.59 ha, 6.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921841.md - Parcel 1976205: 20,087 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976205.md - Parcel 1976201: 19,994 m² (2 ha, 4.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976201.md - Parcel 1921839: 11,724 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921839.md - Parcel 1976200: 11,166 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976200.md - Parcel 1921842: 9,501 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921842.md - Parcel 1921838: 5,018 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921838.md - Parcel 1976204: 3,333 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1976204.md - Parcel 1921844: 2,584 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921844.md - Parcel 4863545: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4863545.md - Parcel 1921846: 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921846.md - Parcel 1921843: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921843.md - Parcel 1921845: 1,482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1921845.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumaskin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 9 Feb 2018, Galway County Council 18129: Conditional. Retention, 275 homes. of a serviced dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained 274 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18129/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockavanny Turlough, site code 000289 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA030-051: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-051----. On a rise in undulating grassland overlooking marshy ground to N. Almost circular rath (D c. 46m), in fair condition, defined by a denuded bank, quarried out at S and W, and an external fosse. The latter is best preserved from S through W to NW. A gap at SE, now blocked, may be original. Within the interior are a circular depression (D 6.5m) and three rectangular earthen mounds (L 9.3m, Wth 3.1m, H 0.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Knockavanny House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 30403004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30403004. Entrance gateway to Knockavanny House, erected c.1850, comprising double-leaf vehicular gate of decorative cast-iron supported hanging between round-plan ashlar limestone piers having moulded cornices and cylindrical caps rising to cones. Similar cast-iron railings supported on these piers and outer rectangular-plan piers having recessed rectangular panels with moudled cornices and pyramidal capstones. Gates fronted by quadrant walls of coursed rubble limestone, with simple square-plan piers at each end with pyramidal caps. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumaskin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumaskin. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumaskin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumaskin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumaskin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumaskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bettyspark: https://everytownland.com/galway/bettyspark.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-61053.md - Knockavanny: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockavanny.md - Monacow: https://everytownland.com/galway/monacow.md - Newtown (Lynott): https://everytownland.com/galway/newtown-lynott.md - Polldorragha: https://everytownland.com/galway/polldorragha.md - Stripe: https://everytownland.com/galway/stripe-63950.md - Stripe South: https://everytownland.com/galway/stripe-south.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumaskin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/drumaskin