Drumgooaun

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgooaun, from 1,144 m² to 226,373 m² (22.64 ha, 55.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Drumgooaun 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.

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a new entrance to existing dwelling house and farm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360316

• 14 Aug 2017Conditional

  for change of use from Garda Station to Office and ancillary accommodation (Class 3), change of location of access and construction of a double garage and workshop at Former Garda Station (Gross floor space 93.60sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171228

• 1 Jun 2017Conditional

  for retention and completion of dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services on revised site boundaries previously granted under 05/2846. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 269.8sqm, Garage 55.3sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17783

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 Drumgooaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumgooaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Drumgooaun.

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

Name

Drumgooaun · Droim Dhubháin

Area

545,994 m² (54.6 ha, 134.92 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardamullivan, Attifineen, Ballygeagin, Carheeny Beg, Carheeny More, Cregboy, Cregg Demesne

Placenames

Drumgooaun 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.