Drumbane

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbane, from 12 m² to 64,742 m² (6.47 ha, 16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  INTERNAL ALTERATIONS, A NEW EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL AND CONSTRUCTION WORKS WHICH INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: 1. REMOVAL OF EXISTING WALLS AND FLAT ROOF SECTION AT THE EXISTING LIBRARY AND ENTRANCE LOBBY ON THE EAST ELEVATION GROUND FLOOR. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST ELEVATION CONSISTING OF A SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS UNIT, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE SPACES, EXTERNAL SECURE SOFT PLAYS AREAS AND NEW ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES. 3. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PEDESTRIAN ACCESS GATE IN THE CAR PARK BOUNDARY WALL & RAILING STRUCTURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENTS WORKS TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF NO. 53-223.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22674

• 24 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST AND A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, AND ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22431

• 15 Aug 2022N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST AND A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, AND ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22408

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21230

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY CLADDED STRUCTURAL STEEL PORTAL FRAME LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED ENABLING AND SITE WORKS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING LIGHT INDUSTRIAL FACILITY. THE PROPOSED STRUCTURE WILL HAVE AN EAVES AND RIDGE HEIGHT OF APPROX. 7.050M AND 8.600M RESPECTIVELY. THE FLOOR AREA OF THE BUILDING WILL BE APPROX. 406SQ METRES. THE BUILDING WILL HAVE TWO NUMBER MECHANICALLY OPERATED ROLLER SHUTTER DOORS AND ONE NUMBER PEDESTRIAN ACCESS DOOR TO ITS NORTH EASTERN ELEVATION. ONE PEDESTRIAN DOOR WILL BE LOCATED ON THE SOURTHERN ELEVATION. THE PROPOSED CLADDED PORTAL FRAMED BUILDING WILL HAVE REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL TO ITS PERIMETER OF A HEIGHT OF APPROX. 2.4M. THE REMAINDER OF THE BUILDING AND ROOF WILL BE CLAD WITH A LIGHTWEIGHT INSULATED COMPOSITE PANEL

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19268

• 29 Jan 2019Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF CHANGE OF USE OF BUILDING FROM CAR SALES/WORKSHOP TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL & NEW SIGNAGE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 1930

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 Drumbane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbane.

Architectural heritage

• High Park House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with extension to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls. Square-headed window openings with segmental-headed window opening to central bay of façade. Replacement timber casement windows with rendered surrounds and tooled stone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with rendered surround to timber panelled door with stained glass fanlight and flanking sidelights, accessed by tooled limestone steps. Roughcast rendered outbuildings to rear with corrugated asbestos roofs. Modernised gable-fronted gate lodge to entrance. Cast-iron gates set to pebbledashed and rendered piers and side walls.

• Birr Railway Station, railway station, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single- and two-storey former railway station, built by the Great Southern and Western Railway on the Roscrea to Birr line and opened in 1858, with lean-to canopied porch. Now in domestic use. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered and tooled stone chimneystacks with terracotta pots, some cast-iron rainwater goods and modern skylights. Punch dressed ashlar limestone walls with sandstone plinth and quoins. Smooth cement based render applied to rear elevation. Segmental-headed window openings with sandstone block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Segmental-headed door openings with sandstone block-and-start surrounds with glazed timber panelled doors with overlights. Round-headed window openings to rear of two-storied section with sandstone block-and-start surrounds and hoodmouldings. Timber panelled door inserted to former window opening to front elevation. Square-headed window openings and glazed extension inserted to rear elevation. Square-headed door opening under slate canopy supported by sandstone and limestone projecting walls. Replacement timber panelled door flanked by sidelights and surmounted by overlight. Platform remains with limestone retaining wall and moulded sandstone kerbstones.

• Birr Railway Station, store/warehouse, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height former goods shed, built by the Great Southern and Western Railway on the Roscrea to Birr line and opened in 1858. Situated to east of former station, now in retail use. Modern entrance extension to south. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, sandstone coping to gables and slate canopy on timber supports to east elevation. Hipped tiled roof to entrance. Snecked limestone walls with smooth render to extension. Segmental-headed window openings with replacement timber windows and stone surround and sills. Diocletion windows to north and south gable ends with tooled stone surrounds, stone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door openings with timber lintel, timber battened doors and tooled limestone surrounds. Sheet metal sliding door to north.

• Drumbane House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1880, with curvilinear gables with segmental pediments to central bay and to single-storey single-bay wings to each side. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with stone quoins and rendered plinth and eaves course. Segmental-headed niches to flanking wings. Tripartite timber casement windows to façade, Venetian style and double-light round-headed windows to entrance bay, all with painted sills. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded stucco surround and timber doorcase having engaged Doric columns and fluted cornice, circular-paned fanlight, round-headed sidelights and double timber and round-headed glass panes. Accessed by concrete steps with cast-iron railings. Set within its own grounds with modern warehouses to south-east and bounded by random coursed wall to front, with cast-iron gates and gate piers.

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

About 1 in 10 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1620 (ZIP).

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.

• Drumbane, Birr8 sales

Name

Drumbane · An Droim Bán

Area

426,915 m² (42.69 ha, 105.49 acres)

Civil parish

Birr, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Birr Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Birr Urban electoral division: 4,726 people in 1,823 households; 53% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindarra, Crinkill, Seefin, Townparks

Placenames

Drumbane 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.