Drim
Drim is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Droim.
- Area
- 110.2 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 62,667 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drim, from 3,490 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) to 320,719 m² (32.07 ha, 79.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Drim 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
13 Feb 2024Conditional
to construct a slatted sheep shed and concrete aprons with all associated site works in our farmyard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2464
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
Recorded monuments
- WI028-010 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope overlooking the Derreen River. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 20m N-S; 15m E-W) marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI028-016 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI028-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the summit of a slight knoll with marked slopes to the S. Oval area (dims. 36.2m E-W; 33.5m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1.25m) faced inside and out with drystone walling. There are gaps at the SE (Wth 2m), E (Wth 1.9m) and NW (Wth 2m). There is drystone walling of identical character on the attached field boundaries at the N, E, SE and W. No trace of a fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drim.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drim.
- 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 Drim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Drim · An Droim
- Area
- 1,101,698 m² (110.17 ha, 272.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballinguile, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 153 people lived in 51 households in the Ballinguile electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinguile, Cornan East, Cranareen, Knocknagree, Mullanacranna, Slievereagh Lower, Toorboy
- Placenames
- Drim 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.