Drum
Townland in the civil parish of Knock, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Droim
- Area
- 173.7 ha
- 429 acres
- Land parcels
- 237
- registered freehold, median 958 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
237 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum, from 0 m² to 163,381 m² (16.34 ha, 40.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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
- M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 155 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
8 Jul 2026Conditional
construct a summer house in the rear garden that will be ancillary to the main dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26153
30 Mar 2026N/a
The development will consist of the following: construction of 10no. Dwellings (comprising of: 1no. 2-Bedroom House; 8no. 3-Bedroom Houses; 1no. 4-Bedroom House); and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works including roads, footpaths, public lighting, parking, drainage and landscaping/amenity areas.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660241
23 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning permission for the retention of a domestic storage shed, together with all associated site development works at the above address.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660023
25 Aug 2025Refused
Permission for development. The development will consist of the change of use of an existing granny flat with overhead gymnasium (granted under Planning Ref. P23/179) to residential accommodation for international protection applicants, to be used in conjunction with the existing residence (Planning Ref. P05/2738), together with all associated site development works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560581
13 Aug 2025Conditional
construct extension to existing housing estate development consisting of 21 units: 14 no. two storey terraced 3 bed houses, 2 no. single storey terraced 3 bed houses, 2 no. single storey semi detached 2 bed houses, 3 no. single storey terraced 2 bed houses with connection to public sewer together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 21 homes · Mayo County Council, 25337
2 Jul 2025N/a
permission for the change of use of an existing granny flat with overhead gymnasium (granted under Planning Ref. P23/179) to living accommodation, to be used in conjunction with the existing residence (granted under Planning Ref. P05/2738), together with all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560441
12 May 2025N/a
construction extension to existing housing estate development consisting of 21 units: 14 no. two storey terraced 3 bed houses, 2 no. single storey terraced 3 bed houses, 2 no. single storey semi-detached 2 bed houses, 3 no. single storey terraced 2 bed houses, with connection to public sewer together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25184
30 Apr 2025N/a
permission for the change of use of an existing granny flat with overhead gymnasium (granted under Planning Ref. P23/179) to living accommodation, to be used in conjunction with the existing residence (granted under Planning Ref. P05/2738), together with all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560257
11 Mar 2025Conditional
Planning permission to demolish an existing derelict dwelling house and construct a new dwelling house & garage as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments at Drum, Glenbrook, Knock, Co. Mayo
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560136
25 Feb 2025N/a
Planning permission to replace existing dwelling house & construct garage as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments at Drum, Glenbrook, Knock, Co. Mayo
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560095
18 Jul 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Changing the use of property to a guesthouse under Section 14 (h)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24276
16 Apr 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: property is proposed to be used to accommodate International Protection Applicants made up of women, children, couples and families only
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24109
10 Nov 2023Conditional
Retention of the established use of the premises as a Guest house as constructed and as set out on the planning application drawings together with all Ancillary Site Works, Services and Signage.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360472
27 Jul 2023N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Change of use from religious accommodation to residential use
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23409
3 Apr 2023Conditional
retention of granny flat with over-head gymnasium facility to the rear of the existing dwelling house (granted planning permission under P05/2738) together with all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 23179
22 Mar 2023Conditional
retain as built dwelling house as previously granted planning permission P88/540 together with all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 23156
22 Nov 2022Conditional
change of house type from that granted under planning reference P21/1126 together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221027
27 Jun 2022N/a
SECTION 5 DECLARATION: REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING GLAZING TO THE LANTERN TO THE RECONCILIATION CHAPEL
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22503
13 Dec 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK UNDERPASS UNDER THE R323, SOILED WATER TANK AND ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211308
22 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 211126
1 Oct 2021Conditional
CHANGE THE USE OF BLOCK B, HOUSE UNITS 4 & 5 FROM INDEPENDENT DWELLING UNITS TO DWELLING HOUSE FOR PRIVATE SALE, PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE NO. P08/363 & P16/1028
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211048
10 Jun 2021Conditional
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS, PREVIOUS PLANNING REF NO. P03/3477
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21634
19 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19987
26 Mar 2019Refused
CHANGE OF USE OF BLOCK A, HOUSE UNITS 1, 2 AND 3 FROM ASSISTED LIVING UNITS TO DWELLING HOUSE USE FOR PRIVATE SALE, P08/363 AND P16/1028 REFERS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19211
5 Oct 2018N/a
CONSTRUCT TWO STOREY DWELLINGHOUSE WITH DETACHED GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18760
The 25 most recent of 28 applications.
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 Drum.
Recorded monuments
- MA092-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, straddling a low rise with a gentle fall of ground to NE, in an area of undulating pasture and patches of bog. There are modern houses immediately to W, NW and E. A broadly oval platform (35.9m NW-SE; 31.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen scarp (H 1.9m at NE, 1.7m at SW). The interior slopes gently from centre to NE−E. The scarp has a relatively fairly vertical external face for most of the circuit but has a low ramp-like slope (Wth c. 5m) at SSE, which may indicate an original entrance. The rath is moderately ringed with hawthorn bushes, gorse and clumps of brambles; the interior is grassy. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 February 2022
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drum.
- 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
- Drum, Knock17 sales
The townland
- Name
- Drum · An Droim
- Area
- 1,737,396 m² (173.74 ha, 429.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Knock South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knock South electoral division: 799 people in 322 households; 79% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowmore, Carrownamallaght, Churchfield, Cloondace, Cloontarriff, Eden
- 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.