Drum West

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum West, from 50 m² to 94,559 m² (9.46 ha, 23.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drum West 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660326

• 10 May 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house, separate domestic garage/shed, septic tank/effluent treatment system and percolation area/polishing filter and all associated services

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 2560570

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a new indoor training pitch facility, supplementary recreational activity amenities and all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 4736.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461807

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed.Gross floor space of proposed works 246.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260918

• 15 Feb 2022Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor area of proposed works: 193.4 sqm (dwelling house) and 41.34 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260109

• 20 Jul 2021Conditional

  for erection of 3 no. floodlights to side of Pitch 4 (previously approved under planning ref. nos. 03/6724, and 10/674) and for 3 no additional floodlights to be erected on existing poles on pitch 3.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211312

• 27 May 2021N/a

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed: 193.4 sqm + 41.34 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21916

• 5 May 2021N/a

  for the erection of 3. no. floodlights to side of pitch 4 [previously approved under Planning Ref. No's 03/6724 & 10/674] and for 3 no additional floodlights to be erected on existing poles on pitch 3.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21741

• 25 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and for all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 198.3sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171541

• 9 Aug 2017Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 238.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171199

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  for the re-configuration of existing all weather pitches including associated fencing, lighting, site works and services.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171095

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 Drum West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drum West.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drum West, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_402 (ZIP).

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 Drum West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Drum West · An Droim Thiar

Area

761,006 m² (76.1 ha, 188.05 acres)

Civil parish

Rahoon, and its townlands

Barony

Galway

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,866 people lived in 1,287 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attyshonock, Boleynasruhaun, Corboley (Lynch), Corcullen, Drum East, Lisheenakeeran, Pollagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drum West 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.