Drumbane

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbane, from 479 m² to 195,342 m² (19.53 ha, 48.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Drumbane 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drumbane in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Drumbane.

Recorded monuments

• GA005-045 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA005-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). According to Neary (1914, 118, no. 52), it was known as 'Drumbane Fort'. He described it as a 'circular, earthen fort … The diameter of the garth is 150 ft. [45.7m], ditch about 6ft. [1.8m], but the bank and rampart have disappeared.' Within the interior was 'a rubble-heap, the remains of a stone structure'; possibly a house or a cairn. No visible surface trace survives. An earthwork (GA005-048----) lay c. 80m to S. 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

• GA005-046001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA005-047 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved originally subcircular cashel (N-S 42m) defined by a dry stone wall at S, and by a degraded scarp from N through E to S. No visible surface trace survives at W. A field wall cuts the monument at SE. A field-clearance cairn lies within the interior. An enclosure (GA005-046----) lies c. 200m to W. 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

• GA005-048 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Some 80m S of an enclosure (GA005-046----). According to local tradition, there was an earthen 'fort' here. No visible surface trace survives. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbane.

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

Name

Drumbane · An Droim Bán

Area

1,618,688 m² (161.87 ha, 399.99 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowmanagh, Cloonerkaun (Co. Roscommon), Cloonfad East (Co. Roscommon), Flaskagh Beg, Kilnalappa, Shrule

Placenames

Drumbane 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.