Drumbaun

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbaun, from 120 m² to 134,319 m² (13.43 ha, 33.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumbaun 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.

• 27 Apr 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission of dwelling house, garage and storage shed all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660334

• 17 Jul 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: permenent relocation of the treated effluent discharge point approved under P21/859. the discharge point to be relocated 350m upstream from its current location

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25280

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to retain garages with car port and planning permission to relocate existing entrance all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560247

• 4 Jul 2023Conditional

  Laying of a 150mm diameter Underground Discharge Pipe, 5.2km in length, containing fully-treated effluent from Existing Factory at Western Brand Chickens, Knockaunacat to the Existing Fully-Licensed Above-Ground Effluent Balance Tanks at Drumbaun and final discharge pipe to the Dalgan River located at Cloonbullig. The proposed discharge pipe passes along the public road through the townlands of Knockaunacat, Erriff, Derrymore, Bohogerawer, Gorteen, Hazelhill, Cloonbullig and Drumbaun together with all ancillary site works and services at the above addresses. The proposed pipe shall replace the transporting of the fully-treated effluent from Western Brand Chickens, Knockaunacat to the Full-Licensed Above-Ground Effluent Balance Tanks at Drumbaun by Tanker Trucks as per granted under Planning permission P21/869.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360259

• 10 Feb 2023N/a

  The installation of a 392 cubic meter above ground tank to store fully treated effluent prior to final discharge to Dalgan River, together with all ancillary site works and services. The proposed tank is an addition/extension to the existing tank storage facility previously approved (planning ref P21/859). The development relates to a current Industrial Emissions licence (Ref: P0831-02)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2361

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF TWO 100 CUBIC METER ABOVE GROUND TANKS TO STORE FULLY TREATED EFFLUENT PRIOR TO FINAL DISCHARGE TO DALGAN RIVER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21859

• 21 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20581

• 27 Feb 2019Conditional

  REPOSITIONING OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A 6 BAY OPEN SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19128

• 21 May 2018Refused

  A RECOVERY FACILITY FOR SOIL AND STONE WASTE (24,000 TONNES PER ANNUM, INCLUDING SOILS CONTAINING JAPANESE KNOTWEED) THE SUBSEQUENT INFILLING OF A DISUSED QUARRY, CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. STORAGE SHEDS, HARDSTAND AREA AND CAR PARKING AREA, ERECTION OF WELFARE AND OFFICE BUILDINGS, WHEELWASH, WEIGHBRIDGE AND INSPECTION GANTRY, DRAINAGE INCLUDING A WATER WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18369

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumbaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA103-057 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A cairn was noted here in the early 1990’s. When the location was inspected in 1998, it was found that extensive quarrying for sand and gravel had taken place; there is now no visible trace of a cairn. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 November 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbaun.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_829 (ZIP).

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.

• Drumbaun, Ballyhaunis5 sales

Name

Drumbaun · An Droim Bán

Area

1,240,082 m² (124.01 ha, 306.43 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhaunis electoral division: 3,531 people in 1,219 households; 53% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyquarter, Agloragh, Cloonbullig, Grallagh, Hazelhill

Placenames

Drumbaun 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.