# Driney, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,160,867 m² (216.09 ha, 533.96 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,269 m² (2.53 ha, 6.24 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tibohine, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/tibohine.md
- Barony: Frenchpark
- Electoral division: Loughglinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43703
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191085
- Centre: latitude 53.834562, longitude -8.585604 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Driney, from 63 m² to 127,280 m² (12.73 ha, 31.45 acres); 58 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 706073: 127,280 m² (12.73 ha, 31.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/706073.md
- Parcel 654491: 119,924 m² (11.99 ha, 29.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654491.md
- Parcel 709651: 102,720 m² (10.27 ha, 25.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709651.md
- Parcel 709650: 82,738 m² (8.27 ha, 20.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709650.md
- Parcel 678062: 74,267 m² (7.43 ha, 18.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/678062.md
- Parcel 4777012: 73,625 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4777012.md
- Parcel 654494: 71,574 m² (7.16 ha, 17.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654494.md
- Parcel 658126: 68,768 m² (6.88 ha, 16.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/658126.md
- Parcel 709547: 67,749 m² (6.77 ha, 16.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709547.md
- Parcel 657872: 64,556 m² (6.46 ha, 15.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657872.md
- Parcel 654493: 58,115 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654493.md
- Parcel 680767: 55,882 m² (5.59 ha, 13.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/680767.md
- Parcel 654377: 55,395 m² (5.54 ha, 13.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654377.md
- Parcel 657880: 54,814 m² (5.48 ha, 13.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657880.md
- Parcel 654591: 54,632 m² (5.46 ha, 13.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654591.md
- Parcel 709652: 53,138 m² (5.31 ha, 13.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709652.md
- Parcel 708509: 49,779 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/708509.md
- Parcel 654492: 49,587 m² (4.96 ha, 12.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654492.md
- Parcel 654592: 48,909 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654592.md
- Parcel 654585: 41,092 m² (4.11 ha, 10.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654585.md
- Parcel 705815: 40,732 m² (4.07 ha, 10.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705815.md
- Parcel 652585: 40,568 m² (4.06 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/652585.md
- Parcel 708664: 39,989 m² (4 ha, 9.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/708664.md
- Parcel 2819597: 38,640 m² (3.86 ha, 9.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2819597.md
- Parcel 709657: 37,562 m² (3.76 ha, 9.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709657.md
- Parcel 705824: 35,117 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705824.md
- Parcel 652193: 33,061 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/652193.md
- Parcel 657617: 32,743 m² (3.27 ha, 8.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657617.md
- Parcel 654589: 31,828 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/654589.md
- Parcel 709654: 31,370 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709654.md
- Parcel 657869: 28,034 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657869.md
- Parcel 657223: 27,421 m² (2.74 ha, 6.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657223.md
- Parcel 657881: 26,750 m² (2.67 ha, 6.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657881.md
- Parcel 657870: 25,687 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657870.md
- Parcel 709655: 25,508 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709655.md
- Parcel 705803: 25,029 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705803.md
- Parcel 5283313: 24,409 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5283313.md
- Parcel 2819596: 24,019 m² (2.4 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2819596.md
- Parcel 641704: 23,643 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/641704.md
- Parcel 724641: 22,243 m² (2.22 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/724641.md
- Parcel 657468: 21,326 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657468.md
- Parcel 709724: 20,788 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709724.md
- Parcel 705802: 19,816 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705802.md
- Parcel 712214: 16,865 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/712214.md
- Parcel 709653: 16,230 m² (1.62 ha, 4.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/709653.md
- Parcel 723305: 12,366 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/723305.md
- Parcel 5149685: 10,174 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5149685.md
- Parcel 657134: 8,662 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657134.md
- Parcel 650951: 5,125 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/650951.md
- Parcel 707191: 3,266 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/707191.md
- Parcel 3011017: 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3011017.md
- Parcel 2882616: 3,041 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2882616.md
- Parcel 4879757: 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4879757.md
- Parcel 724272: 2,782 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/724272.md
- Parcel 657130: 2,620 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/657130.md
- Parcel 676755: 2,533 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/676755.md
- Parcel 653206: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/653206.md
- Parcel 2559205: 2,304 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2559205.md
- Parcel 2853524: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2853524.md
- Parcel 713704: 2,099 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/713704.md
- Parcel 2918690: 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2918690.md
- Parcel 712014: 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/712014.md
- Parcel 644073: 1,786 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/644073.md
- Parcel 706970: 1,669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/706970.md
- Parcel 3841877: 1,583 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3841877.md
- Parcel 713622: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/713622.md
- Parcel 2492119: 1,145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2492119.md
- Parcel 4888436: 565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4888436.md
- Parcel 650865: 528 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/650865.md
- Parcel 707222: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/707222.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

8 applications, newest first.

- 14 Oct 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560488: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560488/0
- 22 Jan 2025, Roscommon County Council 256: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Planning Permission for change of use from previous Medical Centre to residential use at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/256/0
- 16 Jan 2025, Roscommon County Council 254: N/a. Permission. Permission for change of use from previously Medical Center to Residential Use at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/254/0
- 13 Dec 2024, Roscommon County Council 24152: N/a. Permission. Planning Permission for change of use from previous Medical Centre to residential use at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/24152/0
- 30 Oct 2024, Roscommon County Council 24141: N/a. Permission. Permission for change of use from commercial to residential at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/24141/0
- 8 Nov 2022, Roscommon County Council 22602: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/22602/0
- 28 Oct 2022, Roscommon County Council 22584: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/22584/0
- 26 Mar 2018, Roscommon County Council 18139: Conditional. Permission. to construct new slatted shed together with all associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/18139/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Driney.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Driney.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Loughglinn School, school, 1850–1855, Regional interest, registry number 31920003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=RO&regno=31920003. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/driney.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/driney.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/driney.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Driney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aghaderry: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/aghaderry.md
- Cloonmullin: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cloonmullin.md
- Corracoggil South: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/corracoggil-south.md
- Cuiltyboe: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cuiltyboe.md
- Figh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/figh.md
- Loughglinn Demesne: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/loughglinn-demesne.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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