# Drumscar, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickmolassy, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Droim Scartha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,433,286 m² (143.33 ha, 354.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,236 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickmolassy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/lickmolassy.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Portumna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,504 people lived in 964 households in the Portumna electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21237 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61915 - Centre: latitude 53.110278, longitude -8.298181 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumscar, from 56 m² to 219,323 m² (21.93 ha, 54.2 acres); 40 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2073014: 219,323 m² (21.93 ha, 54.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073014.md - Parcel 2025486: 181,215 m² (18.12 ha, 44.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025486.md - Parcel 2025491: 173,508 m² (17.35 ha, 42.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025491.md - Parcel 4463287: 154,244 m² (15.42 ha, 38.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463287.md - Parcel 2073026: 108,842 m² (10.88 ha, 26.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073026.md - Parcel 2025487: 83,417 m² (8.34 ha, 20.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025487.md - Parcel 2073016: 73,022 m² (7.3 ha, 18.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073016.md - Parcel 2073025: 66,825 m² (6.68 ha, 16.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073025.md - Parcel 2073015: 57,530 m² (5.75 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073015.md - Parcel 2025489: 56,823 m² (5.68 ha, 14.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025489.md - Parcel 2025494: 53,365 m² (5.34 ha, 13.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025494.md - Parcel 2025488: 37,346 m² (3.73 ha, 9.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025488.md - Parcel 2025485: 33,325 m² (3.33 ha, 8.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025485.md - Parcel 2073021: 26,899 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073021.md - Parcel 4729139: 26,634 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4729139.md - Parcel 2073020: 22,154 m² (2.22 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073020.md - Parcel 2025493: 13,076 m² (1.31 ha, 3.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025493.md - Parcel 2073024: 11,031 m² (1.1 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073024.md - Parcel 2073017: 5,379 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073017.md - Parcel 2073023: 3,767 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073023.md - Parcel 2560762: 3,236 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2560762.md - Parcel 2025484: 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025484.md - Parcel 2524055: 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2524055.md - Parcel 2025490: 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025490.md - Parcel 2073018: 1,866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073018.md - Parcel 5474131: 1,477 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5474131.md - Parcel 2073012: 1,474 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073012.md - Parcel 2025495: 1,451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025495.md - Parcel 6027680: 1,325 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6027680.md - Parcel 6118049: 1,028 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118049.md - Parcel 2073022: 1,027 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073022.md - Parcel 2073013: 1,018 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073013.md - Parcel 2073019: 1,006 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2073019.md - Parcel 2025492: 772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2025492.md - Parcel 6000922: 741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6000922.md - Parcel 4648781: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4648781.md - Parcel 5958843: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5958843.md - Parcel 6027693: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6027693.md - Parcel 6027701: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6027701.md - Parcel 6027698: 57 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6027698.md - Parcel 6118092: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6118092.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumscar 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 1 May 2025, Galway County Council 2595: Conditional. Permission. to construct (a) a single storey extension to the side (west) and rear (south) of an existing detached 2 storey dwelling, (b) minor elevational alterations to the existing dwelling, (c) decommission an existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter, (d) demolition of existing outbuildings and stores, (e) construction of a new domestic garage, (f) new vehicular entrance to serve existing farm yard l4316 roadway and (g) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 50.90 sqm(extension) & 40.00 sqm(G). Gross floor space of any demolition: 150.30 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2595/0 - 22 Aug 2024, Galway County Council 2461094: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.20 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461094/0 - 8 Dec 2023, Galway County Council 23477: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to: [a] construct a single storey extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling; [b] minor elevational alterations to the existing dwelling; [c] install a new wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter; [d] upgrade existing vehicular entrance; and [e] all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 56.85 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/23477/0 - 14 Mar 2022, Galway County Council 22339: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209.81 sqm (house) & 51.5 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/22339/0 - 17 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201953: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new 6 bay slatted shed with cubicle area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 461.0 msq. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201953/0 - 17 Nov 2020, Galway County Council 201724: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 38.6 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201724/0 - 30 Mar 2020, Galway County Council 20410: Unconditional. Extension of duration. for the construction of a new dwellinghouse with garage, septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works (Gross floor space house 219.2sqm; garage 60sqm) Previous Planning Ref 14/1447. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20410/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumscar. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumscar. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumscar. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drumscar, 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: 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 Drumscar. - 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/drumscar.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumscar.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumscar.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumscar 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) - Ballyshrule: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyshrule.md - Creggeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggeen.md - Gortanummera: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortanummera.md - Gorteenphadder: https://everytownland.com/galway/gorteenphadder.md - Killeen North: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeen-north.md - Polltalloon East: https://everytownland.com/galway/polltalloon-east.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. --- 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/drumscar - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/drumscar