Drumkeen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Droim Caoin
- Area
- 72.4 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,441 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumkeen, from 264 m² to 195,024 m² (19.5 ha, 48.19 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 Drumkeen 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
16 Jul 2026Refused
Retention permission to include four single storey general storage buildings, three single storey buildings comprising twenty five number rental self storage units, one single storey general storage building incorporating 11 number rental self storage units, one 2-storey building comprising offices and general storage, caretaker apartment and independent toilet facility for site use, together with septic tank and percolation area, ancillary concrete yards and storage compounds, site entrance, circulation and lighting, and all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660565
10 Jun 2024Refused
construct dwelling house, domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system, and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24225
19 Dec 2022Conditional
construct a dwelling house, garage and septic tank with percolation area all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221137
3 Aug 2021Refused
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21833
14 Apr 2021N/a
Construction of storage shed for storing straw, agricultural equipment and agricultural equipment and artificial fertilizer, including all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21345
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 Drumkeen.
Recorded monuments
- MA101-043 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumkeen.
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 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 Drumkeen.
- 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
No address of the register names Drumkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Drumkeen · Droim Caoin
- Area
- 723,823 m² (72.38 ha, 178.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Caraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caraun electoral division: 349 people in 138 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygowan, Cartronnacross, Castlegar, Clare, Crantahar, Kilbeg-Malone
- Placenames
- Drumkeen 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.