Drumlayne

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlayne, from 172 m² to 409,242 m² (40.92 ha, 101.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Nov 2025N/a

  IB Eggs Ltd. intend to apply for planning permission to construct 1 No. Poultry Layer House and 1 No. Manure loading store, together with all ancillary structures, (to include 4 No. meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tanks), and all associated site works (to include upgraded site entrance and internal farm access route, site drainage and storm water attenuation and on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area) associated with the proposed development, at Coolnahinch, Moynalty, Kells, Co. Meath. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R) and Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S) has been submitted with this application.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561200

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 Drumlayne.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumlayne.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumlayne, about 1 in 20 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumlayne.

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.

No address of the register names Drumlayne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Drumlayne

Area

771,688 m² (77.17 ha, 190.69 acres)

Civil parish

Moybolgue, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Lower

Electoral division

Moybolgue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

276 people lived in 88 households in the Moybolgue electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnahinch, Cormeen, Mullystaghan, Tirachorka, Tullypole

Placenames

Drumlayne 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.