Drim
Townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois; in Irish An Droim
- Area
- 231.7 ha
- 572 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 10,424 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drim, from 336 m² to 656,151 m² (65.62 ha, 162.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Drim 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
4 Feb 2026Conditional
retain a domestic extension containing play room, family room and utility, together with all ancillary services at this site
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660057
29 May 2025Conditional
provide astro turf playing surface, associated lighting and fencing and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2560325
20 Feb 2020N/a
construct a dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2094
15 Feb 2019Conditional
construct a dwelling house, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1998
1 Nov 2017Conditional
construct a dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17585
23 Oct 2017N/a
a Dwelling House, Garage, new Site Entrance, Septic Tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Laois County Council, 17570
10 Aug 2017Conditional
(a) demolish existing dwelling structure; (b) relocate existing garage/barn, (c) permission for new two-storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, up-grade of septic tank & percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17429
23 Feb 2017Conditional
retain existing permanent mature hedgerow boundary to the west elevation of the site, which is an amendment to Pl. ref. 92/316
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1799
10 Feb 2017N/a
retain existing permanent mature hedgerow boundary to the west elevation of the site, which is an amendment to P.I. ref. 92/316
Retention · Laois County Council, 1772
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 Protection Area: Slieve Bloom Mountains SPA 004160
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drim.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drim.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Drim.
- 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
- Drim, Mountrath6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Drim · An Droim
- Area
- 2,316,753 m² (231.68 ha, 572.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Brisha, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bockagh, Deerpark, Derrycon, Killinure, Mountainfarm, Paddock, Rossalee, Shanavaur
- Placenames
- Drim 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.