Drimina
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacteige, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo; in Irish Droimeanaigh
- Area
- 257.5 ha
- 636 acres
- Land parcels
- 277
- registered freehold, median 3,681 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
277 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drimina, from 20 m² to 118,534 m² (11.85 ha, 29.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 53 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drimina 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Jun 2026Conditional
extensions and alterations to an existing dwelling house with a new effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660224
11 Mar 2025Conditional
for alterations to the house granted under planning permission PL 24/60273, currently under construction, to include alterations to front elevation along with removal of front porch and raising of roof & window positions, and change of design to roof of the extension to the rear of main dwelling house from flat to pitched roof
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560088
27 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) demolition of existing extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and (2) extension & alterations to existing dwelling house, upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460273
24 Jul 2024Conditional
(1) retain the demolition of previously existing dwelling house, (2) demolish existing sheds, (3) construct new dwelling house, (4) construct new domestic entrance off the public road, (5) upgrade and relocate existing wastewater treatment system and (6) carry out all required ancillary works on site
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460245
20 Dec 2023Conditional
(1) demolition of existing shed and existing extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and (2) extension & alterations to existing dwelling house, upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360369
5 Mar 2020Conditional
Development consisting of construction of dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2068
5 Mar 2020Conditional
development consisting of construction of dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2069
14 Feb 2020Conditional
development consisting of the demolition of existing single storey detached dwelling house and to decommission and remove the existing septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2042
20 Dec 2019N/a
development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19515
20 Dec 2019N/a
development consisting of the construction of dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19516
5 Sept 2019Refused
for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19368
5 Sept 2019Refused
Development consisting of the construction of dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19369
11 Dec 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a single storey dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at - CONDITION 7 COMPLIED WITH
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18487
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drimina.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drimina.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drimina.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drimina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Drimina · Droimeanaigh
- Area
- 2,575,235 m² (257.52 ha, 636.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacteige, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Banada, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Banada electoral division: 610 people in 238 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh, Carrigeenagowna, Creeghassaun, Sessuecommon, Sessuegarry, Tullanaglug, Tullycusheen Beg
- Placenames
- Drimina 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.