Drummond
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpatrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 297.8 ha
- 736 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 13,049 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummond, from 45 m² to 882,045 m² (88.2 ha, 217.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drummond 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
21 Jul 2026N/a
(A) construction of a single storey type house, (B) garage / store for domestic use, (C) the installation of a proprietary treatment system with polishing filter percolation area, and (D) Upgrading works to the existing field entrance to a vehicular recessed entrance and access driveway to serve the dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660834
16 Jan 2026Conditional
permission for (1) a single storey extension to the front, (2) a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing detached dwelling and consists of retention permission for (3) the attic converted for habitable use and roof windows, (4) a porch to the front, (5) entrance gates, piers and wing walls, (6) the garage as constructed converted to a garden room at ground floor level and a home gym at first floor level and (7) a container for domestic storage and all associated ancillary site development works above and below ground. Revised by Significant Further which Information consists of: elevational changes from that which was previously granted
Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 2660045
23 Jul 2025Conditional
for the replacement of existing modern electrical & mechanical services installations throughout the house, alterations to the plan layout to improve kitchen, bathroom & bedroom accommodation including renewal of modern kitchen & bathroom fittings & related repairs, enhancement of fire safety including provision of a new external doorway & fire escape staircase to the east side, replacement of modern window to the west annex & alterations to basement window/ door openings to north & south sides. Restoration works to the basement including replacement of incompatible modern materials to walls & floors with lime based materials, restoration of ground levels to external basement areas at the north & south sides, upgrading existing foul & surface water drainage including the decommissioning of the existing septic tank & provision of a new waste water treatment system together with all associated repairs & site works. Permission is also sought for retention of the partial excavation of modern infill to the external basement areas and replacement of cement render to the external basement walls with lime render at the north and south sides
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560836
7 Apr 2025N/a
on a Protected Structure, for the replacement of existing modern electrical & mechanical services installations throughout the house, alterations to the plan layout to improve kitchen, bathroom & bedroom accommodation including renewal of modern kitchen & bathroom fittings & related repairs, enhancement of fire safety including provision of a new external doorway & fire escape staircase to the east side, replacement of modern window to the west annex & alterations to basement window/ door openings to north & south sides. Restoration works to the basement including replacement of incompatible modern materials to walls & floors with lime based materials, restoration of ground levels to external basement areas at the north & south sides, upgrading existing foul & surface water drainage including the decommissioning of the existing septic tank & provision of a new waste water treatment system together with all associated repairs & site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560361
4 Apr 2025N/a
for the replacement of existing modern electrical & mechanical services installations throughout the house, alterations to the plan layout to improve kitchen, bathroom & bedroom accommodation including renewal of modern kitchen & bathroom fittings & related repairs, enhancement of fire safety including provision of a new external doorway & fire escape staircase to the east side, replacement of modern window to the east annex & alterations to basement window/ door openings to north & south sides. Restoration works to the basement including replacement of incompatible modern materials to walls & floors with lime based materials, restoration of ground levels to external basement areas at the north & south sides, upgrading existing foul & surface water drainage including the decommissioning of the existing septic tank & provision of a new waste water treatment system together with all associated repairs & site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560347
26 Aug 2023Conditional
***SID ***ABP Application - Proposed further Development of the Drehid Waste Management Facility. Granted by ABP 06.09.2024. ABP-317292-23
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23317292
9 Aug 2023Conditional
the construction of a photovoltaic solar farm comprising of 54 no. table solar panel arrays erected on ground mounted galvanised steel frames/support structures located in the southeast corner of the existing mushroom, compost and farm facility. The solar panels will be arranged facing southward with a separation distance of 5 meters between rows. The development also includes (i) ducting and underground electrical cabling; (ii) 2m high perimeter fencing to the north and west site boundaries with associated access gate; (iii) and all ancillary works including landscaping and associated civil engineering works necessary to facilitate the development. The solar farm will provide electrical power to the existing facility
Permission · Kildare County Council, 23837
18 Dec 2020Conditional
(I) construction of a single storey mono-pitch roof staff training room (67.6 sqm) directly accessible from the wider Monaghan Mushrooms facility campus; and (ii) all ancillary site works necessary to facilitate the development,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201581
14 Dec 2020N/a
(i) construction of a single storey mono-pitch roof staff training room (67.6 sqm) directly accessible from the wider Monaghan Mushrooms facility campus; and (ii) all ancillary site works necessary to facilitate the development,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201526
10 Sept 2020Conditional
1, the construction of two no. extensions to the rear of an existing dwelling, 2, alterations to the side elevation (North), and 3, the replacement of the On-site waste water treatment system,
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201036
25 Mar 2020Refused
for the construction of a detached bungalow, secondary effluent treatment system, private well, access road and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20311
11 Mar 2019N/a
the construction of a detached two storey house, secondary effluent treatment system, private well, access road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19237
13 Sept 2018Conditional
A change of house type from that previously granted under planning file ref 17/1330 to single storey house type to the front and a storey and a half to this rear.
Permission · Kildare County Council, 181123
10 Jul 2018N/a
change of house type from that previously granted under planning file Ref. 17/1330 to single storey house type to the front with storey and a half type to the rear
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18824
20 Dec 2017Refused
STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (ABP Decision) Increase in waste material at disposal facility at Drehid Waste Management Facility
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17300506
28 Nov 2017Conditional
(a) Erection of dormer type dwelling; (b) Erection of garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) Installation of proprietary waste water treatment system with tertiary treatment in a sand polishing filter and all associated site works. Revised by significant further information consisting of; removal of third party boundary & ESB electricity pole in order to provide an improved visibility splay at the entrance
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 171330
24 Jul 2017N/a
(a) Erection of dormer type dwelling; (b) Erection of garage/fuel store for domestic use; (c) Installation of proprietary waste water treatment system with tertiary treatment in a sand polishing filter and all associated siteworks
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17851
31 Jan 2017Conditional
re-establishment of residential use of existing single storey detached cottage, in the curtilage of a protected structure Drummin House B08-13; demolition of the existing single storey kitchen and bathroom extension, and modification of the existing elevations to include construction of rear bay window. Removal of an existing porch and construction of new porch; installation of new proprietary sewage system to replace the existing septic tank
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 1791
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 Drummond.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummond.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drummond.
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
- 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 Drummond.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drummond with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Drummond
- Area
- 2,977,727 m² (297.77 ha, 735.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Windmill Cross, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Windmill Cross electoral division: 1,225 people in 392 households; 87% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill Lower, Coolcarrigan, Dreenan, Kilkeaskin, Kilpatrick, Rathmore
- Placenames
- Drummond 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.