Drummaveg
Drummaveg is a townland in the civil parish of Moycullen, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Droma Bheag.
- Area
- 110.4 ha
- 273 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummaveg, from 27 m² to 288,232 m² (28.82 ha, 71.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Drummaveg 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
31 Aug 2026N/a
for the construction of a machinery/storage shed and all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2661482
19 Jun 2026N/a
for the construction of a machinery/storage shed and all associated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2661020
21 Jun 2023N/a
for the renovation of a section of existing improved grassland (used for summer silage ground) by infilling it with earth to raise the ground level of 1 Hectare of the field
Permission · Galway County Council, 2360682
18 Jul 2019Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 176 sqm, Garage - 40 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191090
17 May 2019Conditional
to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 210.5 sqm (House), 60 sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19752
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Moycullen Bogs NHA 002364
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummaveg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drummaveg.
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 Drummaveg, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummaveg.
- 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 Drummaveg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Drummaveg · Droma Bheag
- Area
- 1,103,646 m² (110.36 ha, 272.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moycullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moycullen
- Electoral division
- Tullokyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,303 people lived in 756 households in the Tullokyne electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowlustraun, Drimmavohaun, Gortyloughlin, Lealetter
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Drummaveg 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.