Drumin

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumin, from 1,256 m² to 251,151 m² (25.12 ha, 62.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 20/707 - Permission for the provision of 35 no. dwellings comprising 13 no. houses and 22 no. apartments. The proposed houses are located in the southern part of the site and consist of 5 no. detached, 4 no. semi-detached and 4 no. terraced dwellings, all 2 storeys in height. 4 of the proposed detached dwellings front Main Street R132 and incorporate south facing first floor roof terraces and individual new vehicular accesses off Main Street/R132 to serve each dwelling. The proposed apartments are accommodated in a two storey building located towards the northern part of the site, with balconies provided at first floor level. The development also provides for a new vehicular entrance onto Main Street/R132 to serve the apartments, semi-detached and terraced houses, a public footpath along the site frontage on the east side of Main Street/R132 and a pedestrian only entrance to the development off Main Street/R132. It is proposed to provide a riverside amenity path. The proposed development also provides for all site development works including alterations to ground levels and construction of retaining walls, internal roads and footpaths, electricity substation, car parking, open space, public lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments. *Significant Further Information received on 08/04/2021 which comprises the extension of the site area to encompass the Motte at the Northern end of the site and the full extent of lands zoned Open Space, Recreation and Amenity. Other revisions include the realignment and redesign to limited sections of the internal access road and reconfiguration of car parking; revisions to landscape and boundary treatments; external and internal revisions to the apartment buildings including a reduction in level to Main Street/R132 (west) elevation and re-design of ground floor. The further information response also includes a Conservation and Management Plan for the Motte feature and a public lighting plan for the development*

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 2663

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  Permission for the provision of 35 no. dwellings comprising 13 no. houses and 22 no. apartments. The proposed houses are located in the southern part of the site and consist of 5 no. detached, 4 no. semi-detached and 4 no. terraced dwellings, all 2 storeys in height. 4 of the proposed detached dwellings front Main Street R132 and incorporate south facing first floor roof terraces and individual new vehicular accesses off Main Street/R132 to serve each dwelling. The proposed apartments are accommodated in a two storey building located towards the northern part of the site, with balconies provided at first floor level. The development also provides for a new vehicular entrance onto Main Street/R132 to serve the apartments, semi-detached and terraced houses, a public footpath along the site frontage on the east side of Main Street/R132 and a pedestrian only entrance to the development off Main Street/R132. It is proposed to provide a riverside amenity path. The proposed development also provides for all site development works including alterations to ground levels and construction of retaining walls, internal roads and footpaths, electricity substation, car parking, open space, public lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments. *Significant Further Information received on 08/04/2021 which comprises the extension of the site area to encompass the Motte at the Northern end of the site and the full extent of lands zoned Open Space, Recreation and Amenity. Other revisions include the realignment and redesign to limited sections of the internal access road and reconfiguration of car parking; revisions to landscape and boundary treatments; external and internal revisions to the apartment buildings including a reduction in level to Main Street/R132 (west) elevation and re-design of ground floor. The further information response also includes a Conservation and Management Plan for the Motte feature and a public lighting plan for the development*

  Permission, 13 homes · Louth County Council, 20707

• 22 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 26 no. dwellings comprising 7 no. 2 storey detached, 8 no. 2 storey semi-detached and 3 no. 2 storey terraced houses in addition to 8 no. apartments. The apartments are accommodated in 2 no. 2 storey buildings each containing 4 no. apartments, with first floor roof terraces located to the rear facing eastwards towards the White River. The development also provides for a new vehicular entrance onto Main Street R132, a riverside amenity path, a playground, a public footpath along the site frontage on the east side of Main Street R132, all associated site development works including alterations to ground levels, internal roads and footpaths, electricity substation(s), car parking, open space, public lighting, landscaping and boundary treatments. *Significant Further Information Received on 04/07/2019*

  Permission, 16 homes · Louth County Council, 19212

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 Drumin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumin.

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay, two-storey former corn mill, built c. 1820, now in use as museum. Rectangular-plan, two-storey return to north-west, timber water wheel to east gable. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, aluminium gutters. Coursed rubble limestone walling. Square-headed window openings, red brick voussoirs, block-and-start surrounds, sills, timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening, red brick voussoirs, block-and-start surround, dressed limestone plinth, timber vertically sheeted door. Two-storey stable building to west, pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, coursed limestone rubble walling, square-headed window openings, red brick block-and-start surrounds and sills, two-over-two timber casement windows, square-headed door opening, red brick surround timber vertically sheeted half-door. Located on outskirts of Dunleer, beside private dwelling c. 1940, accessed by unpaved road from main road, open to the public, acting as museum of milling.

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 Drumin, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Drumin · An Dromainn

Area

401,179 m² (40.12 ha, 99.13 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleer, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,270 people lived in 1,088 households in the Dunleer electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athclare, Burren, Dunleer, Skibbolmore, Slieveboy, Windmill, Woodland

Placenames

Drumin 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.