Drumfin

180 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfin, from 42 m² to 108,677 m² (10.87 ha, 26.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Drumfin 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.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  I Harry King, intend to apply for full planning permission at Drumfin Sligo, for retention of the following: 1. West elevation: Velux window at roof level. 2. Window in the north elevation at ground floor level. 3. East Elevation: Velux window at roof level.

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660353

• 20 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the erection of a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure with antennas (resulting in an overall height of 15.1 metres). The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460421

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a two storey four bedroom dwelling house, installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system with discharge to a packaged tertiary unit and a distribution attenuation layer, connection to public utilities, provision of a new vehicle access into the site from the public road via the west boundary and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22254

• 7 Mar 2022N/a

  development consisting of the construction of a two storey four bedroom dwelling house, installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system with discharge to a packaged tertiary unit and a distribution attenuation layer, connection to public utilities, provision of a new vehicle access into the site from the public road via the west boundary and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2285

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  PP - development consisting of the construction of a new entrance boundary wall, steel gates and associated minor ancillary works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 21195

• 22 Feb 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a new slatted shed and creep area and all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 1843

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  for development consisting of the retention of alterations to existing conservatory attached to existing dwelling house, together with all ancillary site works and services (Previous Planning references PL03/454 and PL15/396)

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 17286

• 4 Jul 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the demolition of existing outbuildings, provision of new single storey extension with part basement, domestic shed, wastewater treatment unit with raised percolation area, together with ancillary and associated works (the extension is to a Protected Structure RPS No. 201 former Carrigeenview House)

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17256

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: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumfin.

Architectural heritage

• The Beehive, farm house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1900, on a rectangular plan; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with concrete step threshold, and concealed dressings on margined tooled cut-limestone padstones framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road with roughcast piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted chamfered capping supporting flat iron gate.

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 Drumfin, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1137 (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 Drumfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Drumfin · Droim Fionn

Area

2,282,052 m² (228.21 ha, 563.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmorgan, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumfin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

412 people lived in 151 households in the Drumfin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behy, Branchfield, Carrowkeel, Clooneen, Cloonlurg, Coolbock, Coolteen, Knocknagroagh, Lackagh, Murillyroe, Spotfield

Placenames

Drumfin 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.