Drumeyre
Drumeyre is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeygormacan, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Droim Eyre.
- Area
- 111.3 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 30,111 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumeyre, from 926 m² to 175,862 m² (17.59 ha, 43.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumeyre 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Oct 2025Conditional
for (1) construct a new agricultural entrance (2) all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561500
9 Aug 2023Conditional
for a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant & percolation area, along with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360926
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumeyre.
Recorded monuments
- GA107-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (44.8m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from S to SW. Traces of a possible outer bank survive at S. A gap (Wth 2.7m) at N appears to be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017
- GA107-062 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in level grassland. Marked on the 1838 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m). A NW-SE running field wall clipped it at S. No visible surface trace survives. However, its faint outline is visible on the OSi digitalglobe AP. Possibly a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 March 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumeyre.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumeyre, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumeyre.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumeyre with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Drumeyre · Droim Eyre
- Area
- 1,112,574 m² (111.26 ha, 274.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeygormacan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanaghtan, Drumatober, Drumhogan, Foxhall Little, Liscoyle, Lurganshanny
- Placenames
- Drumeyre 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.