Drumman

390 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumman, from 21 m² to 1,168,021 m² (116.8 ha, 288.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumman 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.

• 16 Nov 2022Conditional

  (a) construct a six bay shed which will consist of a slated area with slurry holding tank underneath, cubicles and calving pens. (b) also construct a silage pit with retaining walls and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 22546

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  DRUMMAN BIOMASS FACILITY, LOCATED WITHIN THE TOWNLANDS OF DERRYGREENAGH AND KNOCKDRIN, CO. OFFALY AT GRID REFERENCE 648817, 738632. THE DEVELOPMENT IS FOR THE STORAGE AND SEASONING OF BIOMASS LOGS FOLLOWED BY CHIPPING OF THE SEASONED LOGS ON A SITE AREA OF 29.17HA. THE PROPOSED RETENTION DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF 1) A WEIGHBRIDGE (120 SQ.M) AND A WEIGHBRIDGE CONTROL STATION (7.75 SQ.M). 2) A BIOMASS STORAGE AREA (6KM OF LINEAR LOG STORAGE SPACE EQUATING TO 31,320 TONNES OF WET LOGS), 3) A STEEL POST AND WIRE MESH FENCE WITH GATES AT THE ENTRANCE 4) UNPAVED ACCESS TRACKS (6KM IN LENGTH) AND 5) ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE LOG STORAGE AREA OR LOG PILE IS LINEAR WITH A DIAMETER OF C. 4M AND UP TO A HEIGHT OF 4.1M. THERE IS NO STORAGE OF CHIPPED BIOMASS ON SITE. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR ALTERATIONS TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING ACCESS OFF THE R400 INCLUDING 1) SURFACE THE SITE ACCESS ROAD APPROACH TO THE R400 WITH AN APPROPRIATE BOUND MATERIAL AND 2) PROVIDE A STOP LINE AND STOP SIGN AT THE SITE ENTRANCE. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT UNTIL 2030

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20329

• 3 Jul 2020N/a

  AND CONTINUATION OF WORKS FOR AN EXISTING BIOMASS FACILITY ON A SITE AREA OF 29 .17HA AND SHARES AN ENTRANCE WITH THE PERMITTED DERRYARKIN SAND AND GRAVEL QUARRY ON THE R400. THIS FACILITY IS USED FOR THE STORAGE AND SEASONING OF BIOMASS LOGS (6-9 MONTHS) FOLLOWED BY CHIPPING OF THE SEASONED LOGS. THE PROPOSED RETENTION DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF 1) THE INSTALLATION OF TEMPORARY STRUCTURES A) WEIGHBRIDGE (120 SQ. M) AND B) WEIGHBRIDGE CONTROL STATION (7.75 SQ. M).RETENTION PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT FOR 2) A BIOMASS STORAGE AREA (6KM OF LINEAR LOG STORAGE SPACE EQUATING TO 31,320 TONNES OF WET LOGS), 3) A STEEL POST AND WIRE MESH FENCE WITH GATES AT THE ENTRANCE 4) UNPAVED ACCESS TRACKS (6KM IN LENGTH) AND 5) ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. THE LOG STORAGE AREA OR LOG PILE IS LINEAR WITH A DIAMETER OF C. 4M AND UP TO A HEIGHT OF 4.1 M. THERE IS NO STORAGE OF CHIPPED BIOMASS ON SITE. THE SITE WILL BE OPERATIONAL UNTIL 2030. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR ALTERATIONS TO IMPROVE THE EXISTING ACCESS OFF THE R400

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20270

• 25 Jan 2019Conditional

  AN 87.6 HECTARE EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH-WEST, SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST OF ITS EXISTING SAND AND GRAVEL PIT (WITHIN AN APPLICATION SITE OF 146.1 HECTARES); STOCKPILING, DRYING, ON-SITE SCREENING, LOADING AND OFF-SITE TRANSPORT OF EXCAVATED SAND AND GRAVEL FROM THE EXTENSION AREA; UPGRADING OF THE ACCESS ROAD TO THE EXISTING PIT FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH THE R400 REGIONAL ROAD UP TO A NEW WHEELWASH FACILITY TO BE INSTALLED TO THE EAST OF THE EXISTING WEIGHBRIDGE; PROVISION OF MOBILE SITE OFFICE(18.2M2), MOBILE STAFF WELFARE UNIT (9.5M2) AND REFUELLING PAVEMENT SLAB; RESTORATION OF THE PROPOSED EXTENSION LANDS TO NATURALLY REGENERATED WILDLIFE HABITAT, WATER PONDS AND POTENTIAL LONG-TERM AMENITY USE. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) HAS BEEN PREPARED IN RESPECT OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1925

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  to erect new milking parlour, 2 no. cubicle sheds, calving shed/boxes, new silage slab and new slatted tank and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 186192

• 24 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of new cubicle shed, silage slab and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176300

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 Drumman.

Recorded monuments

• WM033-049 Enclosure
  Description

  Present remains consist of a small sub-rectangular shaped area enclosed by a low rounded earth and stone bank with a shallow external fosse. The enclosure which is depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a small rectangular field or paddock appears to be of 18th or 19th century date. Possibly the remains of a sheepfold of post 1700 date. Compiled by : Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 July 2013

• WM033-050 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground on poorly drained marshy land at the N edge of a bog. The top of the natural rise has been quarried away leaving a shallow flat -bottomed depression. There are no surface remains visible of any monument at this location. This earthwork is depicted on Larkin's map of 1804 (SMR File). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• Drumman Lodge, house, 1740–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic level, rebuilt c.1815 incorporating the fabric of an earlier house/farmhouse built c.1740, having full-height single-bay bowed projections to either end of the front façade (north) and a stair return to the rear (south). Now derelict and out of use. Pitched natural slate roof, now partially collapsed, having (projecting) roughcast rendered brick chimneystacks to either gable end (east and west) of the main body of the building. Lime roughcast rendered walls with square-headed window openings having stone sills and the remains of Wyatt-style tripartite timber sash windows. Single three-over-six pane timber sliding sash window to the centre of the main façade at first floor level. Timber sliding sash windows to the full-height bowed projections. No windows to the rear façade apart from a single round-headed opening to the stair return having intersecting tracery to head. Central round-headed doorcase having a cut limestone surround with cut stone lintel and tooled keystone over, an early timber panelled door with octagon panels and a spoke/radial fanlight above. Set well back from road at the end of a long approach avenue from the north. Complex of outbuildings to the rear (south) having dressed and cut stone detailing. Former kitchen garden/walled garden on rectilinear-plan to the east. Located to the south of Milltownpass.

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).

No address of the register names Drumman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Drumman

Area

10,569,945 m² (1,056.99 ha, 2,611.89 acres)

Civil parish

Castlelost, and its townlands

Barony

Fartullagh

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carrick (Co. Offaly), Corcloon, Derrygreenagh (Co. Offaly), Farthingstown, Gallstown, Garr (Co. Offaly), Gortumly, Knockdrin (Co. Offaly), Milltown, Rahanine

Placenames

Drumman on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.