Drimeen

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drimeen, from 33 m² to 73,292 m² (7.33 ha, 18.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C2.1Industrial (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space / GI (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilkenny City and County Development Plan 2021-2027, Kilkenny · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 24 Aug 2021Conditional

  to install an array of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the existing builders providers. The works will consist of a 375m2 array on the southeast roof & associated ancillary equipment/site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21726

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  for proposed development which will consist of a 20kV grid connection from the consented Ballytobin Solar Farm to the existing 38kV ESB substation south of Callan Co.Kilkenny. The grid connection is 3.6km long. The grid connection line will consist of c.496m of overhead line and c.3.1km of underground cable. The cable ducting will be located in the existing road verge and in the road itself with short section of c.25m on the solar farm to connect to the overhead line. The applicaiton is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). An appropiate period of 10 years (ie.duration of the planning permission to construct the development) is sought, with an operational life of up to 30 years after the date of commissioning

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20899

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  for new mezzanine office space, new garden centre extension at the southwest elevation, new windows at the southwest and northwest elevations, new totem pole signage at the front entrance and revision to design granted under Planning Reference No. 18/796 consisting of: a change of use from warehouse to retail space, door/shutter door repositioning at the northwest elevation, rearrangement of car parking, alterations to the front boundary to the boundary wall, alterations to existing site entrances, minor reconfiguration of granted retail space and associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19647

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  for change of use of part of an existing warehouse (area 766m) to builders providers retail floor space, an extension to the existing warehouse (area 556m) for storage, a glass entrance porch extension to the front of the extended building, additional car parking at the front of the site and all associated site works on lands. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with the application

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18796

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drimeen.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3412 (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.

No address of the register names Drimeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Drimeen · An Droimín

Area

242,843 m² (24.28 ha, 60.01 acres)

Civil parish

Callan, and its townlands

Barony

Callan

Electoral division

Callan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Callan Rural electoral division: 1,932 people in 628 households; 82% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunta Commons, Bolton, Callan South, Mallardstown Upper, Mill Island, Minnauns, Pollagh

Placenames

Drimeen 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.