Drim

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drim, from 101 m² to 272,697 m² (27.27 ha, 67.38 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 Drim 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.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  to retain the construction of a bat house and associated site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2660466

• 15 Feb 2023Conditional

  for development, the development consists of the construction of a slatted unit and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2379

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Old Domestic Building (Keevagh) SAC 002010
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Old Domestic Building (Keevagh) 002010

Recorded monuments

• CL034-121 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-123 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-128001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-129001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL034-172 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  On the gentle N-facing slope of a fertile ridge in pasture. Gwynn and Hadcock (1970 , 278) refer to a 17th century place of refuge from Quin Friary (CL042-027002-) in Drim townland. The OS Name Books (1829-34) note ‘The Ruins of a Franciscan Convent on this Tld. This convent was built when Quin Abbey was secondly burned in 1200…Authority Patrick McDonnell, Drim.’ According to more recent local information (pers. comm. Martin Breen, August 2025) the ruins of a house at ITM 540111, 676539 is remembered locally to have been used as the refuge by the last Franciscan friars from about 1740 to 1820 when the last friar, Fr. John Hogan, died and was buried at the abbey. A house is depicted at this location on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. On the ground only the lower portions of the N (L c. 8m), W (L c. 7m) and E (L c. 3m) walls remain (H 1.2-1.5m) and there are no apparent architectural features. A wooden rosary and a white gold ring with a stone (which according to a Limerick jeweller was of an ecclesiastical type) were found in one wall of the ruin in the 1970s. These items are no longer extant. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drim, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Drim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Drim · An Droim

Area

877,527 m² (87.75 ha, 216.84 acres)

Civil parish

Doora, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Doora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,147 people lived in 715 households in the Doora electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Ballyhickey, Finanagh, Keevagh, Monanoe, Moyriesk

Placenames

Drim 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.