Drumderry
Drumderry is a townland in the civil parish of Moyacomb, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Droim Doire.
- Area
- 240.4 ha
- 594 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,441 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumderry, from 182 m² to 357,769 m² (35.78 ha, 88.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumderry 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
20 Jul 2026Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260965
19 Dec 2024Refused
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associat
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241588
24 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention planning permission for 1) Relocation of dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230569
10 Mar 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed construction of a new private entrance to our
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220303
24 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with aux
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210797
24 Jan 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200068
4 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
(1) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE EXISTING BUILDING FROM RESIDENTIAL
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191597
23 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, HOLDING YARD, D
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190537
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumderry.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumderry.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumderry, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2813 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumderry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Drumderry · Droim Doire
- Area
- 2,403,802 m² (240.38 ha, 593.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyacomb, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Moyacomb, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 460 people lived in 168 households in the Moyacomb electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynastraw, Ballyshonock, Carrhill, Carrickduff (Co. Carlow), Kildavin (Co. Carlow)
- Placenames
- Drumderry 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.