Drum
Drum is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Droim.
- Area
- 122.2 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum, from 13 m² to 126,471 m² (12.65 ha, 31.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Drum 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
10 Apr 2026Conditional
Retention permission for the following: (1) As-built alterations to the existing elevations of the dwelling, previously granted under reference No. 99/1282, (2) Existing First Floor, together with all associated site works at Drum, Clogher, Ballina, Co. Mayo. F26 W5N8, on behalf of Kieran Reilly.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660282
5 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22663
20 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211000
17 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19726
17 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH NEW SITE ACCESS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19727
15 Dec 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17998
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: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex SAC 000470
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullet/Blacksod Bay Complex 000470
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drum.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drum.
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 Drum, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drum.
- 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 Drum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Drum · An Droim
- Area
- 1,221,863 m² (122.19 ha, 301.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- An Geata Mór Theas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 881 people lived in 329 households in the An Geata M�r Theas electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumreagh, Lurgacloy, Manraghrory
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Drum 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.