Drumloose

Area

577,854 m² (57.79 ha, 142.79 acres)

Buildings

4 buildings touch it, 1,018 m² on the ground

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Drumloose

Planning applications on this parcel

• 19 Feb 2026Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension (93.5 sqm) to the rear of the existing dwelling. The proposed extension will consists of an open plan kitchen, dining, and living, along with a pantry, utility room, and plant room. Permission is also sought for works to the existing dwelling for the demolition of the existing attached domestic storage structure (10 sqm) and rebuild as is to accommodate a habitable bathroom (7.9 sqm), together with an increase in the overall height and the formation of a parapet roof to an overall height of 3.1 m. Permission is sought for the construction of a new domestic vehicular entrance onto the adjoining public road located on the south-east side of the site, together with the closure of the existing domestic vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2660064

• 27 Jan 2026N/a

  Permission is sought for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling. The proposed extension will provide an open plan kitchen, dining, and living area measuring 51.6 sqm, along with a pantry (3.9 sqm), utility room (4.7 sqm), and plant room (3.7 sqm). Permission is also sought for alterations to the existing dwelling, specifically to the current storage area. These alterations include the installation of a new window on the west-facing façade (side elevation) for ventilation purposes. The storage area will also undergo an increase in floor-to-ceiling height from 1.7 m to 2.4 m and will be finished with a flat roof. In addition, permission is sought for the construction of a new domestic entrance onto adjoining public road located on the southeast side of the site and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2660019

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• WM018-083 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 38) as following: 'Very low, poorly defined mound with markedly oval ground-plan (Diam. 5m N-S x 9m E-W) on a low glacial knoll in undulating pastureland. Mound reaches a height of up to 0.37m on S side, where its edge is most clearly defined. An ASI fieldworker in 18/3/75 recorded ‘a large stone beside the mound on the NE’, although a colleague on 15/4/81 added that this ‘large stone or small boulder lying just NE of the mound does not appear to be of any significance’. This stone was not seen by the writer and appears to have been since removed. It is uncertain whether this mound is natural or artificial and it is accepted as a possible burial mound only on account of its proximity to a ring-/stepped-barrow (WM018-082----), lying on another knoll 135m to NE. This writer concurs with the concluding observations of the ASI fieldworker who visited the site on 15/4/81: ‘The mound is quite low and rather insignificant. No real evidence that it is an antiquity... The precise nature of the mound is not clear’. Enclosure: About 64m to S of mound is part of another curvilinear earthwork comprising an arc of broad bank 57m in length up to 5m in width, running from E to W, then veering to S, with a 2m-wide gap near the S end, on the S side of which another bank appears to run off to the NW. If this curving bank represents a segment of circular earthwork, the remainder of this continued under the road that runs alongside the field and into a ploughed field on the other side, where it appears to have been removed. The inside of this enclosure appears to have been slightly dished, as the bank rises 0.9m above the interior but only 0.7m above external ground level'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 23 February 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

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.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.