Drimeen
Townland in the civil parish of Callan, barony of Callan, Co. Kilkenny; in Irish An Droimín
- Area
- 24.3 ha
- 60 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 1,852 m²
- Zoning
- C2.1
- Industrial
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drimeen, from 33 m² to 73,292 m² (7.33 ha, 18.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
- C2.1Industrial (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space / GI (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Aug 2021Conditional
to install an array of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the existing builders providers. The works will consist of a 375m2 array on the southeast roof & associated ancillary equipment/site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21726
21 Dec 2020Conditional
for proposed development which will consist of a 20kV grid connection from the consented Ballytobin Solar Farm to the existing 38kV ESB substation south of Callan Co.Kilkenny. The grid connection is 3.6km long. The grid connection line will consist of c.496m of overhead line and c.3.1km of underground cable. The cable ducting will be located in the existing road verge and in the road itself with short section of c.25m on the solar farm to connect to the overhead line. The applicaiton is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). An appropiate period of 10 years (ie.duration of the planning permission to construct the development) is sought, with an operational life of up to 30 years after the date of commissioning
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20899
9 Sept 2019Conditional
for new mezzanine office space, new garden centre extension at the southwest elevation, new windows at the southwest and northwest elevations, new totem pole signage at the front entrance and revision to design granted under Planning Reference No. 18/796 consisting of: a change of use from warehouse to retail space, door/shutter door repositioning at the northwest elevation, rearrangement of car parking, alterations to the front boundary to the boundary wall, alterations to existing site entrances, minor reconfiguration of granted retail space and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19647
4 Dec 2018Conditional
for change of use of part of an existing warehouse (area 766m) to builders providers retail floor space, an extension to the existing warehouse (area 556m) for storage, a glass entrance porch extension to the front of the extended building, additional car parking at the front of the site and all associated site works on lands. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with the application
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18796
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drimeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drimeen.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drimeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Drimeen · An Droimín
- Area
- 242,843 m² (24.28 ha, 60.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Callan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Callan
- Electoral division
- Callan Rural, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baunta Commons, Bolton, Callan South, Mallardstown Upper, Mill Island, Minnauns, Pollagh
- Placenames
- Drimeen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.