Drum

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum, from 28 m² to 122,398 m² (12.24 ha, 30.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Tuam Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the existing dwelling house, the existing domestic garage and storage sheds which are attached to the house. Full planning permission also sought to retain the existing stand-alone storage shed. Full planning permission also sought to remove the existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works all on revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561167

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  of existing dwelling house, rear sunroom extension, front porch extension, septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site development works on a site with revised boundaries from that previously granted under historical planning Ref No 60965. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 198sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22971

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  of the existing dwelling house (previous planning permission reference number 22311) on revised site boundaries. Full planning permission also sought to replace and install a new septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 194 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191111

• 19 Jul 2019Conditional

  for a dwelling house, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 196.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191114

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  for changes to dwelling house granted permission under planning ref. 17-78 and all associated works. Changes to include the following: a) additional window to front elevation, b) change of roof pitch from 30 degrees to 33 degrees, c) additional velux windows to roof, d) modification to roof. Gross floor space 187sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17606

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated works (Gross floor space of proposed works: 187sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1778

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.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-069 Windmill
  Description

  On a ridge in gently rolling grassland near NE limits of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Poorly preserved shell of a three-storey circular windmill (D 3.3m, H c. 6m) with opposing doorways at N and S. The 1st and 2nd floors are lit by four single-light rectangular windows at each of the cardinal points. A similar windmill (GA029-0191----) lies c. 870m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Mill (wind), 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-stage round-plan windmill, built c.1750, standing in field. Now roofless. Rubble limestone walls with slightly projecting eaves course. Opposed pointed segmental doorways having rubble voussoirs. Square-headed slit window openings to upper floors.

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 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 low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_748 (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 with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Drum · An Droim

Area

1,030,408 m² (103.04 ha, 254.62 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Tuam Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,556 people lived in 2,346 households in the Tuam Rural electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoat, Birmingham Demesne, Coolpark, Deerpark, Loughpark, Townparks (5th Division)

Placenames

Drum 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.