# Drumbulcaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Dún Bolcáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 935,032 m² (93.5 ha, 231.05 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 45,154 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications 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): Carrowrevagh electoral division: 485 people in 162 households; 93% of households own 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/21445
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61895
- Centre: latitude 53.555851, longitude -8.744919 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbulcaun, from 1,363 m² to 238,931 m² (23.89 ha, 59.04 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2093303: 238,931 m² (23.89 ha, 59.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093303.md
- Parcel 2044426: 180,764 m² (18.08 ha, 44.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2044426.md
- Parcel 2093302: 118,568 m² (11.86 ha, 29.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093302.md
- Parcel 2044424: 75,049 m² (7.5 ha, 18.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2044424.md
- Parcel 2093299: 69,016 m² (6.9 ha, 17.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093299.md
- Parcel 2093301: 52,128 m² (5.21 ha, 12.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093301.md
- Parcel 4659260: 46,873 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659260.md
- Parcel 2044429: 46,504 m² (4.65 ha, 11.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2044429.md
- Parcel 2093306: 43,803 m² (4.38 ha, 10.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093306.md
- Parcel 2093300: 27,392 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093300.md
- Parcel 2044425: 26,269 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2044425.md
- Parcel 2093304: 3,308 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093304.md
- Parcel 2093305: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2093305.md
- Parcel 4632257: 1,983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632257.md
- Parcel 2044427: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2044427.md
- Parcel 2044428: 1,363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2044428.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Drumbulcaun 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)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumbulcaun Bog, site code 000263

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA030-052: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-052----. On a rise in low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 30m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at N and SW. The fosse and outer bank survive from NW through N to SE. Well-defined entrance at E. A ringfort (GA030-053----) lies c. 100m 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
- GA030-053: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-053----. Some 100m S of a ringfort (GA030-052----). Circular cashel (D 33.5m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall best preserved from SE through W to N. Field walls radiate from the monument at N and SE. 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
- GA030-054: Kiln - lime, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-054----. 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.
- GA030-132: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA030-132----. In pastureland. This roughly subcircular cashel (c. 43m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) is clearly visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery dated 3/14/2016). It was identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: GA030-132----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 3/14/2016 Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 September 2020

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)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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 Drumbulcaun.
- 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/drumbulcaun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumbulcaun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumbulcaun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Drumbulcaun 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)

- Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynamona-60443.md
- Boleylaan: https://everytownland.com/galway/boleylaan.md
- Brockagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/brockagh-60671.md
- Carrowroe West: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowroe-west-61040.md
- Dunblaney: https://everytownland.com/galway/dunblaney.md
- Knockaloura East: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaloura-east.md
- Shanvally: https://everytownland.com/galway/shanvally-63840.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.

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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/drumbulcaun
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/drumbulcaun