Drum East
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Droim Thoir
- Area
- 63.2 ha
- 156 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 3,822 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drum East, from 118 m² to 157,277 m² (15.73 ha, 38.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Drum East 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
26 Aug 2026N/a
Planning Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, and to install septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services at Drum East, Glencar, Co. Sligo.
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660341
3 May 2024Conditional
Proposed Construction of a New Dwelling House, Garage, New Vehicular Access, Effluent Treatment Unit and Soil Polishing Filter, together with all associated Landscaping and Site Works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460150
6 Sept 2021Conditional
Development consisting of elevational changes to existing dwelling house which includes new larger windows and doors to front elevation and new door to side elevation
Permission · Sligo County Council, 21351
13 Feb 2020Conditional
development consisting of the revised location on site of a proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter for a domestic dwellling from that granted planning permission under planning application PL18456
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2038
23 Nov 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a single domestic dwelling, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18456
2 Jul 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment (p.e.t) system and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18250
19 Feb 2018Refused
for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1839
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drum East.
Recorded monuments
- SL009-028 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drum East.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drum East.
- 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 Drum East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Drum East · An Droim Thoir
- Area
- 631,983 m² (63.2 ha, 156.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Drumcliff East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcliff East electoral division: 764 people in 299 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlegal, Cloonderry, Doonally, Drum West, Drumkilsellagh, Kiltycooly, Lugatober, Rahaberna
- Placenames
- Drum East 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.