Driney

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Driney, from 63 m² to 127,280 m² (12.73 ha, 31.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 58 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 Driney 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.

• 14 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for: (1) change of use from former medical centre to residential dwelling house, (2) refurbishment and revisions to internal layout, (3) single storey utility/plant room extension to north side, (4) change of roof coverings from concrete tiles to slate with roof integrated solar PV panels, (5) reinstatement of entrance wing walls, and (6) replacement of the existing Wastewater Treatment System, together with all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560488

• 22 Jan 2025N/a

  Planning Permission for change of use from previous Medical Centre to residential use at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 256

• 16 Jan 2025N/a

  Permission for change of use from previously Medical Center to Residential Use at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 254

• 13 Dec 2024N/a

  Planning Permission for change of use from previous Medical Centre to residential use at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 24152

• 30 Oct 2024N/a

  Permission for change of use from commercial to residential at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 24141

• 8 Nov 2022Conditional

  Retention Permission for:1. Revised boundary to that previously granted under PD/06/942, and all ancillary site works; 2. Elevation changes to that previously granted under PD/06/942 at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22602

• 28 Oct 2022N/a

  Retention Permission for: 1. Retention of revised boundary to that previously granted under PD/06/942, and all ancillary site works; 2. Retention of elevation changes to that previously granted under PD/06/942 at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22584

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct new slatted shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18139

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 Driney.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Driney.

Architectural heritage

• Loughglinn School, school, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey former national school, built in 1854, with returns to rear and pedimented entrance porch. No longer in use. Hipped slate roof. Cut limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins and limestone eaves course. Plaque in tympanum of pediment reads: 'Loughglyn Schools 1854'. Square-headed window openings with paired uncarved limestone blocks underneath stone sills. Tooled limestone window and door surrounds. School located at the entrance to the avenue leading to the former Loughglynn House.

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 Driney, about 1 in 10 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Driney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Driney

Area

2,160,867 m² (216.09 ha, 533.96 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Loughglinn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

780 people lived in 328 households in the Loughglinn electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaderry, Cloonmullin, Corracoggil South, Cuiltyboe, Figh, Loughglinn Demesne

Placenames

Driney 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.