Drummin East
Townland in the civil parish of Oughaval, barony of Murrisk, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Dromainn Thoir
- Area
- 97.7 ha
- 242 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 7,606 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummin East, from 138 m² to 111,554 m² (11.16 ha, 27.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Drummin East 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
20 Jul 2026N/a
The development will consist of 1) The retention of a domestic garage and 2) permission to construct a dog pen together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660581
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: Mweelrea/Sheeffry/Erriff Complex SAC 001932
Recorded monuments
- MA107-001 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.
- MA107-002 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
- The Thatched Cottage, house, 1840–1914 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1914. Renovated to accommodate occasional use. For sale, 2007. Pitched thatch roof on collared timber construction with exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing timber doors. Interior including kitchen with timber panelled chimneypiece centred on "hipped" hearth. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.
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 Drummin East.
- 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 Drummin East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Drummin East · An Dromainn Thoir
- Area
- 977,378 m² (97.74 ha, 241.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Electoral division
- Drummin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drummin electoral division: 182 people in 76 households; 84% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cuilmore, Derryhawna, Drummin West, Oughty, Pollanoughty, Shanvallybeg
- Placenames
- Drummin East 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.